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Just got back from LA and was hoping everything would've went fine so I wouldn't need to make a thread, unfortunately that wasn't the case.
Flying out was no problem. I was able to take the guitar (JP12-7) on the plane with me, no issues at all. Got all my parts/leads tracked and left Thursday. I was running late at LAX so by the time I got to the plane there was no room, nothing I said mattered, and while one or two of the attendants were sympathetic/helpful I still had to take it back to the gate to get a gate/check tag for it. I told the woman where I was going, she filled out the slip, I looked at it and asked her if it was right, she said yes. Got to the plane, had the attendants look at it because while I understood "DEN" being my connecting flight in Denver, I didn't know what "ICT" meant. They looked at it twice and confirmed it was right because of the flight number.
...but it wasn't. Sure enough my guitar never showed up and I had to deal with the wonderful and personable baggage claim people who just could not have cared less at all. Keeping in mind that their job probably isn't the most fun, gratifying, or fulfilling because most of the people they deal with are really pissed off about losing luggage and take it out on them, I chose to remain really calm as I knew being pissed/yelling wouldn't help my situation at all, but man they were still just awful to deal with. Condescending and rude the whole time. They figured out my guitar got sent to Wichita and they had someone waiting for it before it arrived. They had to send it back to Denver and then ultimately back to me.
I got it back about 10 hours later.....thankfully undamaged. I had put some t-shirts in the case for extra padding just in case. I also wrapped a belt around the case as someone here suggested (I believe it was here). Anyway so out of the four (round-trip) times I've flown with guitars, they've managed to lose one twice.
Flying out was no problem. I was able to take the guitar (JP12-7) on the plane with me, no issues at all. Got all my parts/leads tracked and left Thursday. I was running late at LAX so by the time I got to the plane there was no room, nothing I said mattered, and while one or two of the attendants were sympathetic/helpful I still had to take it back to the gate to get a gate/check tag for it. I told the woman where I was going, she filled out the slip, I looked at it and asked her if it was right, she said yes. Got to the plane, had the attendants look at it because while I understood "DEN" being my connecting flight in Denver, I didn't know what "ICT" meant. They looked at it twice and confirmed it was right because of the flight number.
...but it wasn't. Sure enough my guitar never showed up and I had to deal with the wonderful and personable baggage claim people who just could not have cared less at all. Keeping in mind that their job probably isn't the most fun, gratifying, or fulfilling because most of the people they deal with are really pissed off about losing luggage and take it out on them, I chose to remain really calm as I knew being pissed/yelling wouldn't help my situation at all, but man they were still just awful to deal with. Condescending and rude the whole time. They figured out my guitar got sent to Wichita and they had someone waiting for it before it arrived. They had to send it back to Denver and then ultimately back to me.
I got it back about 10 hours later.....thankfully undamaged. I had put some t-shirts in the case for extra padding just in case. I also wrapped a belt around the case as someone here suggested (I believe it was here). Anyway so out of the four (round-trip) times I've flown with guitars, they've managed to lose one twice.
