As a former roadie that travelled by air a lot with guitars, I also recommend loosening the strings a bit to ease the neck tension and gaff taping over the latches so they don't pop open as they are prone to do. A humidifier is also a good idea.
I’m about to take a guitar I bought in Israel back to Las Vegas. So very humid place to a very dry place and I don’t have a humidifier with me. It’s an acoustic as well. Do you think it will be okay?
@@Harleysareslow Hey Jeremy, it's more of a factor for acoustic guitars as their thiner shells are more readily effected by humidity and temp, but you do what you have to. Once you get to your destination though. be sure to give your guitar some time to sit with the case open to acclimate to local conditions before you start hammering on it. This rule applies if you guitar goes thru any major temperature changes too (which it will if it's in the cargo hold). If you are going to stay in Vegas, you will probably want to invest in a humidifier that lives in the case. They are inexpensive. Especially compared to the cost of the guitar. Safe travels!
@@klonklone7787 Listen, Klon, I've been traveling the world for way longer than you've been alive and have never had a problem, so STFU if you don't have any idea what you're talking about!
Copy the FAA reg and leave it in your guitar case. If you get any feedback, pull it and show the desk. 99.9% of the time they will green light you. It boggles my mind that people would check their instrument!
I packed 2 super rare acoustic guitars on an international flight. I gotta say, they were handled with extra care. I think in light of many complaints and lawsuits, airlines are much more congenial over handling them. Mine were hand carried and carefully stowed, not in the belly, but in a special area for fragiles. Both ends got fat tips. Without saying what guitars. Both together were around $16k. Irreplaceable.
Was this a long time ago? Two normal high quality acoustics can easily cost that much. Super rare ones that people actually care about would cost way more than 16k today.
As a Former Delivery DHL driver, in Texas and Myrtle Beach, it was common for people to ship their instruments, as well as luggage through us. This way they could travel with out having to deal with luggage. You can track it, get it insured, and have it arrive at your destination. Sometimes, they were marked to just be picked up at the dock. This way they could stop in to the depot and just pick them up when they got to town. A lot of people said they preferred us to the airlines. Of course, this was in the 2000s. Not sure what it’d be like today. Prices could be a lot different.
As someone who worked in a depot of a competitor in Silicon Valley, I watched $90,000 graphics workstations get dropped 3 feet off the end of the conveyor belt if the driver didn't pick it off when it went by the back of the truck. On busy mornings, there would sometimes be a pile of packages and boxes at the end of the line waiting to be put onto a cart and returned to the start
@@Markle2k I can’t speak for all of them, but I can say the docks that I worked for ran a pretty tight ship. Our line had a catch all area to prevent anything from falling off. Again…. I can’t speak for all though. Besides the bad eggs, I’ve Heard some horror stories and seen some S. My philosophy was always handle a package how I’d want it delivered if it was mine. Most of the drivers I worked with, the long term drivers, were all solid drivers. Crap drivers never lasted all that long. Again…. That’s been over 12 years ago. Seems like drivers today, just don’t take as much pride in their routes. I had to make a note on all my packages I have ordered that says “you don’t have to stick around, but please hit the doorbell so I know the package has arrived”.
@@DGRussMBThis was back in the same general time that you were at DHL. It was an equal-opportunity shop. No package was treated better or worse than any other, regardless of the worth of the contents. The depots had hundreds of trucks and just a few packages would hit the end of the line. But, as the IT guy, my “office” (it was a cage with a desk) was at the end of the line and I knew what those boxes with the SGI logo on them contained. It was _striking_ to see several times your yearly salary piled on the ground. And there was _supposed to be_ a person at the end to catch them and put them on the cart, but they were always getting called away for something else that needed tending to. Leading up to Mother’s Day was a horror show, though: a pile taller than me, 20-25 feet around of boxes from flower companies. There was just too much for the drivers to deal with.
@@francischang i wouldn’t either. I was just saying that when I worked for them, I seen people do that and thought it was a good idea. Absolutely Not trying to promote them specifically. I’d probably use UPS or FedEx, or most likely, I’d just take it with me since I hate to fly!
@@TylerJohnstonGuitar Mine aren't necessarily expensive, my most expensive one is like 600$, but my guitars all have meaning to them so it was a very upsetting dream, and it was one of those vivid ones that feel real.
Same. I had a similar nightmare about my brand-new Strat's neck being destroyed and it was literally my first electric guitar. So you can guess how gut wrenching it was until I woke up. Felt upset even after waking up.
I once was going on vacation before a gig and needed to practice while away. So I bought an $85.00 used no-name strat copy from guitar center and checked it internationally in an old gator guitar case. I planned on leaving the guitar in Mexico, but liked it and decided to bring it home. I didn’t worry about what happened to it though. That was 10 years ago and I still have the guitar and the case.
If you want better handling and more security of your valuables, put a shotgun choke in the case and declare it as containing “firearm parts”. You will have to fill out forms with the airline but you can do that at home. Then you get to lock the sturdy case with a non-TSA lock and walk it to the X-ray machine yourself ! It’s an interesting way of flying domestically (international flights will have different rules for flying with “firearms parts”). Videos like Deviant Ollam’s Defcon 17 talk “Packing and the Friendly Skies” is a good primer but more recent videos also exist.
I was a pilot for that airline for 32 years and I routinely had to tell passengers that their gate checked baggage would not be returned to them at the gate but rather baggage claim. In the old days we could go down to the ramp and retrieve gate checked items for the passengers but post 9/11 the TSA mandated that only baby strollers and car seats could be returned to the jetway. Lots of confusion and in most cases poor communication by the airlines. One of my favorite youtube videos is "United breaks guitars" which is a video of a true story where the band actually saw the airline break their guitar and then graciously offered to pay them 66 cents/pound for the damage.
That not entirely true. You just have to ask for the right color ticket at gate check. One color goes to baggage claim, but the other comes right to the door of the plane. I’ve done this with my electric scooter and wheelchair. Another guitar UA-camr recently confirmed that he kindly asked for that consideration and the staff kindly obliged during a recent trip from the US going overseas. They handed his guitars back at the plane door. Of course, they won’t do this if there are too many people with wheelchairs, carriages, and other essentials that must be put into the plane last and then collected upon exiting the plane, but it’s worth asking and explaining that you have a delicate, expensive guitar. I can’t recall which color ticket is which, but I think it’s a standard thing in the industry (at least in the US) with being able to collect certain items at the plane’s door rather than at baggage claim. It’s also worth asking if there’s room in one of the closets on the plane. Very often there is and the plane’s flight attendants are happy to share that space if you ask nicely. 😊
I had a Ricknbacker bass disappear while flying from NJ to play a Miami music festival!!! Had me running around the airport for like an hour and a half after we landed, and more than one band was supposed to use the bass!!! Luckily, I got it back while still at the airport and made to the gig at the last possible moment!
My cousin's husband is in a band that flies from Australia to the USA (Nashville) fairly often and luckily they have always had their gear arrive in one piece. Pure luck!!
Back in the day when I hadn't given much thought to things going bad.......I checked my 67 strat on a flight from SC to Colorado. It was only secured via the latches in its original old brown case. Amazingly, it made it there and back without falling out through multiple connections. I still have it and will never do that again.
Funny skit! I work for Air Canada, i see many guitar owners being nervous about their instruments to the point where some people will pay for a seat for their Cello or double bass and we are trained to use a net to strap the cello case to the seat so it wont shift in flight! Cheers mate!
Flying to Berklee in Boston this summer, from California, and going to take my ESP guitar in a soft case on board. Hopefully, Alaska Air will respect the decision to bring the instrument on board.
I was the asshole stowing it in the overhead smh..😅 Never had a problem. This was so great, Tyler! I'd be sweating it the whole way. So thanks for describing me to a T. 🤣 I don't feel so bad now. 🤘
Just flew with my les paul from Davao City, Philippines back home. 4 layovers and 5 planes. Made it just fine in the Gibson case. Had to gate check it on a couple flights and Japan Airlines put it in an empty seat next to me just like they did on the way over a few months ago. Long story short, while I'd prefer to travel with my strat and be able to check it, my anxiety over flying with my Gibson MIGHT have been an overreaction.
That’s my reality living in New Zealand and being a pro player; I have to check my guitar every time. Sucks. But a good flight case and it’s no problem. When I travel internationally I take my guitar in a gig bag and carry on the plane
Flew home from Florida a while back with my Flying V and when I picked it up from baggage it was crushed (luckily) right between the legs of the V!🤬 but no damage to my pride and joy! Airline bought me a new case which I upgraded to an Anvil case. Twice the cost but well worth the protection 🙏
I bought a $120 Donner guitar and have an old hard shell case that it fits in... it is my "expendable" guitar for airline abuse... I'd be bummed if something happened to it but it wouldn't be catastrophic...couldn't deal with the stress otherwise... That guitar is *heavy* and built like a tank (it's the Tele style version) - it weathered a trip from U.S. to Caribbean recently with no issues - the case / stickers on case definitely had a few fresh travel scars - so it went thru some things (but that's its job 😊) (edit: I flew Delta - so a bit of a shout out to them and baggage crews in NY, Atlanta, and US Virgin Islands - thanks to them the guitar came thru unscathed after quite a journey)
I will never again give any airline the opportunity to lose ANYTHING of mine. Checked baggage is LOST baggage. My guitar gets shipped Brown, FX, or Rdwy ahead of me any time it can't sit beside me.
I go to Nashville for work a couple of times a year but yet to still buy a guitar there and take with me on a flight back. Yes I know I can ship one if need be but something about a high end guitar I feel like it needs to fly with me 😅
You scared me, I thought this was going to be another "United Breaks Guitars" moment. I have flown with mine for work a couple of times and luckily its always been ok. Once I got to put it in the overhead.
As a Les Paul Junior player this made me stressed even more after the fact seeing it was a Junior lol. Even though it had already made it safe! I could never risk the wellbeing of my juniors. 😅
That pink tag means you pick it up in the jet bridge, like people with strollers. Not sure why you have a checked bag (white) tag and a pink (gate claim) tag. Next time, rip off the white tag and leave the pink tag. Then you can pick it off on the jet ridge after the flight.
I've done this plenty of times with my Lowden acoustic. I've also flown with a Les Paul. Made me nervous all the time but I got lucky. If you need to fly, I think the best thing you can do is gate check and make sure it's a direct flight.
I take my Strandberg Boden in it's gig bag. I've gone on 3 trips with it and have never had a problem taking it on board. I see people with much larger guitars and bass guitars carrying them on in gig bags as well.
I had a Gibson Les Paul Special in a case like that. Looked like they dropped it from the belly of the plane straight to the ground! Don't think I'll ever try that again.
They used to let us put expensive guitars in the captains closet. They stopped doing that. And I stopped flying with guitars when I watched an angry airline associate, take my guitar from the gang plank, walk it down and around to the storage and literally throw it up into the baggage area. Luckily, no damage to the Guitar but the case had a nice big scratch.
I used to always carry it on and if there wasn’t room in the overheads they’d check it at the gate. I haven’t done it in awhile so idk if they’re cool with that anymore.
As someone who work with baggage handling I have never once not put guitars and other equipment to the side while I load other normal bags. If something is in a hard case or something like that, I assume it is of value for someone and treat it like it was my own. Sadly not everyone thinks like that, but I do think most people do.
I wouldn't trust that anymore. One surly flight attendant saying "YOU HAVE TO CHECK THAT SIR/MAM!" and you are SCREWED. I have watched them do it to people with STANDARD CARRY ON BAGS. Imagine haveing to hand a GIG BAG to some baggage handling gorilla?!?!
The 1st time I flew with my Strat was back in 2000, I was boarding the plane, and one of the flight attendants, said oh, we should check that in, I said where will you put it, she pointed to a vertical storage closet on the plane, near the restroom and said she would put it in there and it would be safe. I said ok and gave it to her, and went to my seat. I saw her from seated position go to the closet and I saw the top of the door open, and then it closed. I assumed at this point she put my guitar in the closet as she said she would.......Never assume,..... When we landed, I went to the closet and waited for her for like 10 minutes and when she finally past by, I asked her if she could get me my guitar. She said, oh I'm sorry there wasn't enough room for so I just checked in with the luggage,.....My face went apple red,... and I jumped her shit right there. I told her she should brought it back to me first, and I could have placed it in bottom of the upper storage bin. Everyone had left the plane and went to the luggage area 10 min. ago. I pointed right in her face, and told her my guitar better there or I was coming back,... I then to ran to the luggage area, and all along on the carousel was my guitar case and by suit case about 20 feet apart....And I did just like Tyler, I immediately open the case to make sure everything was ok,....I then notice a couple police and security were about 30 feet from me watching,....I figured it was because of what I told the attendant. I then closed the case grabbed my bag, and as I was about to walk out of the airport I look at the police, who were looking at me, and I told them,....Tell that bitch it's her lucky day, and kept going...... The next time I flew, I was intercepted again to check the guitar, however I refused and insisted that the guitar stay in the bin above me, explaining exactly why,..... Never, ever, ever, let them check your guitar.......
I fly every month and I usually always have a guitar with me. I do have abs cases w/ TSA locks, and I always check them. So far I have yet to have a problem except this last trip. The guitar arrived just fine they usually always have them at pick up at the airlines baggage claim counter rather than w/ the luggage at the luggage claim area. Which I like cause I know its safe and no one is picking it up "by mistake" and running off with it.. This last trip got to hotel everything was cool till I noticed the back of the case the "spine" was smashed in a bit, the metal part of the frame was dented in quite a bit. The guitar was fine, but the case not so much. I am not sure what happened there, pretty disappointed by that since I've been doing this for years and never had a problem before. But, at least the case did it's job, it protected the guitar
Never in a billion years. The ONE time I traveled with a guitar on a plane I took it as a carry on. I wouldn't trust baggage handlers with a guitar as far as I could throw them. If I desperately needed a guitar where I was going I would either RENT one or buy an inexpensive one and go from there.
I almost made that decicion a few weeks ago, but then realised the true danger of it and left my guitar at home. I just can't imagine life without my LTD. :D
I'm from Brazil and my dream is to my sister bring me a guitar from Australia because we really can't afford it here And I guess it will never happen because of that fear
I recently traveled with my Spark Mini and there were no issues... You just have to be sure to carry onboard... It has lithium battery which is dangerous / prohibited in the baggage hold due to the potential to start a fire...
If you think that's bad how about waiting for 10 months for an Alex Lifeson Epiphone guitar only to find the headstock snapped in 2 and there were none to be had.
Oh no....nuh-uh...not happening. I've been pretty lucky, they always let me take it down the ramp and give it to then to put under the front with strollers and bring it back up there for me. More recently, alot of times they let me bring it on and put it in overhead...but I usually have a strat in the smaller strat hardshell, not the bigger case like that.
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As a former roadie that travelled by air a lot with guitars, I also recommend loosening the strings a bit to ease the neck tension and gaff taping over the latches so they don't pop open as they are prone to do. A humidifier is also a good idea.
You sir are a treasure
i usually do bungee cords as well, just in case the tape peels
The loose strings is a good call.. nice
I’m about to take a guitar I bought in Israel back to Las Vegas. So very humid place to a very dry place and I don’t have a humidifier with me. It’s an acoustic as well. Do you think it will be okay?
@@Harleysareslow Hey Jeremy, it's more of a factor for acoustic guitars as their thiner shells are more readily effected by humidity and temp, but you do what you have to. Once you get to your destination though. be sure to give your guitar some time to sit with the case open to acclimate to local conditions before you start hammering on it. This rule applies if you guitar goes thru any major temperature changes too (which it will if it's in the cargo hold). If you are going to stay in Vegas, you will probably want to invest in a humidifier that lives in the case. They are inexpensive. Especially compared to the cost of the guitar. Safe travels!
I've NEVER checked a guitar into the baggage compartment! I always insist that I take it on board with me! Never had a problem.
& you’re why people hate us dude
@@klonklone7787 Listen, Klon, I've been traveling the world for way longer than you've been alive and have never had a problem, so STFU if you don't have any idea what you're talking about!
Not a bass player then.
I'm trying this tomorrow, hopefully it works lol. It's federal law that you can bring it on board, but a lot of the employees don't seem to care.
Copy the FAA reg and leave it in your guitar case. If you get any feedback, pull it and show the desk. 99.9% of the time they will green light you.
It boggles my mind that people would check their instrument!
I packed 2 super rare acoustic guitars on an international flight. I gotta say, they were handled with extra care. I think in light of many complaints and lawsuits, airlines are much more congenial over handling them. Mine were hand carried and carefully stowed, not in the belly, but in a special area for fragiles. Both ends got fat tips. Without saying what guitars. Both together were around $16k. Irreplaceable.
I have a fat tip as well.
@@Metalman38lmao
Was this a long time ago? Two normal high quality acoustics can easily cost that much. Super rare ones that people actually care about would cost way more than 16k today.
Why wouldn't you want to say what guitars they were?
This was the scariest horror film I’ve ever seen
Sheer terror until the very end. Great production, so happy Jr. is safe Tyler.
As a Former Delivery DHL driver, in Texas and Myrtle Beach, it was common for people to ship their instruments, as well as luggage through us. This way they could travel with out having to deal with luggage. You can track it, get it insured, and have it arrive at your destination. Sometimes, they were marked to just be picked up at the dock. This way they could stop in to the depot and just pick them up when they got to town. A lot of people said they preferred us to the airlines. Of course, this was in the 2000s. Not sure what it’d be like today. Prices could be a lot different.
As someone who worked in a depot of a competitor in Silicon Valley, I watched $90,000 graphics workstations get dropped 3 feet off the end of the conveyor belt if the driver didn't pick it off when it went by the back of the truck. On busy mornings, there would sometimes be a pile of packages and boxes at the end of the line waiting to be put onto a cart and returned to the start
As a former DHL customer, I would rather ship using an unmanned balloon than use DHL again.
@@Markle2k I can’t speak for all of them, but I can say the docks that I worked for ran a pretty tight ship. Our line had a catch all area to prevent anything from falling off. Again…. I can’t speak for all though. Besides the bad eggs, I’ve Heard some horror stories and seen some S. My philosophy was always handle a package how I’d want it delivered if it was mine. Most of the drivers I worked with, the long term drivers, were all solid drivers. Crap drivers never lasted all that long. Again…. That’s been over 12 years ago. Seems like drivers today, just don’t take as much pride in their routes. I had to make a note on all my packages I have ordered that says “you don’t have to stick around, but please hit the doorbell so I know the package has arrived”.
@@DGRussMBThis was back in the same general time that you were at DHL. It was an equal-opportunity shop. No package was treated better or worse than any other, regardless of the worth of the contents. The depots had hundreds of trucks and just a few packages would hit the end of the line. But, as the IT guy, my “office” (it was a cage with a desk) was at the end of the line and I knew what those boxes with the SGI logo on them contained. It was _striking_ to see several times your yearly salary piled on the ground. And there was _supposed to be_ a person at the end to catch them and put them on the cart, but they were always getting called away for something else that needed tending to.
Leading up to Mother’s Day was a horror show, though: a pile taller than me, 20-25 feet around of boxes from flower companies. There was just too much for the drivers to deal with.
@@francischang i wouldn’t either. I was just saying that when I worked for them, I seen people do that and thought it was a good idea. Absolutely Not trying to promote them specifically. I’d probably use UPS or FedEx, or most likely, I’d just take it with me since I hate to fly!
I lost a guitar flying once on a tour. This legit made me sweat so bad! 😂
A Mono bag as a carry on will save you 10/10.
The imagery in that last shot, taken between a nice rotating Gibson display and the crapper is priceless.
Short and sweet just the way i like it no pointless words just the reaction of tyler and us audience i smell an emmy? Lol
Omg that is intense. I had a nightmare once that my guitars got smashed up and it was horrible.
I had a dream my Les Paul got destroyed. You can imagine my relief when I woke up and realized I never bought one in the first place.
@@TylerJohnstonGuitar Mine aren't necessarily expensive, my most expensive one is like 600$, but my guitars all have meaning to them so it was a very upsetting dream, and it was one of those vivid ones that feel real.
@@waynepalumbo8917 Oh absolutely. I get attached to just about any guitar I own. I’d probably shed a tear if my number one became unplayable somehow.
didja now
Same. I had a similar nightmare about my brand-new Strat's neck being destroyed and it was literally my first electric guitar. So you can guess how gut wrenching it was until I woke up. Felt upset even after waking up.
I once was going on vacation before a gig and needed to practice while away. So I bought an $85.00 used no-name strat copy from guitar center and checked it internationally in an old gator guitar case. I planned on leaving the guitar in Mexico, but liked it and decided to bring it home. I didn’t worry about what happened to it though. That was 10 years ago and I still have the guitar and the case.
Short but soooo good. Keep it up man!
If you want better handling and more security of your valuables, put a shotgun choke in the case and declare it as containing “firearm parts”. You will have to fill out forms with the airline but you can do that at home. Then you get to lock the sturdy case with a non-TSA lock and walk it to the X-ray machine yourself ! It’s an interesting way of flying domestically (international flights will have different rules for flying with “firearms parts”). Videos like Deviant Ollam’s Defcon 17 talk “Packing and the Friendly Skies” is a good primer but more recent videos also exist.
I was a pilot for that airline for 32 years and I routinely had to tell passengers that their gate checked baggage would not be returned to them at the gate but rather baggage claim. In the old days we could go down to the ramp and retrieve gate checked items for the passengers but post 9/11 the TSA mandated that only baby strollers and car seats could be returned to the jetway. Lots of confusion and in most cases poor communication by the airlines. One of my favorite youtube videos is "United breaks guitars" which is a video of a true story where the band actually saw the airline break their guitar and then graciously offered to pay them 66 cents/pound for the damage.
That not entirely true. You just have to ask for the right color ticket at gate check. One color goes to baggage claim, but the other comes right to the door of the plane. I’ve done this with my electric scooter and wheelchair. Another guitar UA-camr recently confirmed that he kindly asked for that consideration and the staff kindly obliged during a recent trip from the US going overseas. They handed his guitars back at the plane door. Of course, they won’t do this if there are too many people with wheelchairs, carriages, and other essentials that must be put into the plane last and then collected upon exiting the plane, but it’s worth asking and explaining that you have a delicate, expensive guitar.
I can’t recall which color ticket is which, but I think it’s a standard thing in the industry (at least in the US) with being able to collect certain items at the plane’s door rather than at baggage claim.
It’s also worth asking if there’s room in one of the closets on the plane. Very often there is and the plane’s flight attendants are happy to share that space if you ask nicely.
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I had a Ricknbacker bass disappear while flying from NJ to play a Miami music festival!!! Had me running around the airport for like an hour and a half after we landed, and more than one band was supposed to use the bass!!! Luckily, I got it back while still at the airport and made to the gig at the last possible moment!
My cousin's husband is in a band that flies from Australia to the USA (Nashville) fairly often and luckily they have always had their gear arrive in one piece. Pure luck!!
I’ve traveled to places and found guitars that I would love to have…but I couldn’t bring myself to fly them back home…I feel ya bro😫
I feel you man. I’ll have the same problem very soon.
Back in the day when I hadn't given much thought to things going bad.......I checked my 67 strat on a flight from SC to Colorado. It was only secured via the latches in its original old brown case. Amazingly, it made it there and back without falling out through multiple connections. I still have it and will never do that again.
I've never flown with a guitar and I suspect I probably never will, but if I did I'd probably be extremely stressed out the entire time.
Funny skit! I work for Air Canada, i see many guitar owners being nervous about their instruments to the point where some people will pay for a seat for their Cello or double bass and we are trained to use a net to strap the cello case to the seat so it wont shift in flight! Cheers mate!
Im flying Air Canada this summer. Do you think its safe to check in my guitar or am i allowed to bring it on as a carry on?
I feel ya! I had a Peavey USA Wolfgang I was the same way with a few years ago. Glad everything was OK!!
Love your content dude
I flew with my SG once. I checked it and was totally fine. Just added some padding beneath the headstock.
Flying to Berklee in Boston this summer, from California, and going to take my ESP guitar in a soft case on board. Hopefully, Alaska Air will respect the decision to bring the instrument on board.
I was the asshole stowing it in the overhead smh..😅 Never had a problem. This was so great, Tyler! I'd be sweating it the whole way. So thanks for describing me to a T. 🤣 I don't feel so bad now. 🤘
Yeah, that's a higher pucker-factor than those underwater videos where the shark comes out of nowhere.
I was waiting for the exhale. WHERE WAS THE EXHALE!
Just flew with my les paul from Davao City, Philippines back home. 4 layovers and 5 planes. Made it just fine in the Gibson case. Had to gate check it on a couple flights and Japan Airlines put it in an empty seat next to me just like they did on the way over a few months ago.
Long story short, while I'd prefer to travel with my strat and be able to check it, my anxiety over flying with my Gibson MIGHT have been an overreaction.
Yoooo Davao City!? My wife is from there. Cool place.
That’s my reality living in New Zealand and being a pro player; I have to check my guitar every time. Sucks. But a good flight case and it’s no problem. When I travel internationally I take my guitar in a gig bag and carry on the plane
Yeah true both players snooker players tennis players always have the same impression
Not even Stephen King has ever written sucha nailbite thriller like this one! Danm! ("It was the wrong week to quit smoking" LOL!)
Flew home from Florida a while back with my Flying V and when I picked it up from baggage it was crushed (luckily) right between the legs of the V!🤬 but no damage to my pride and joy! Airline bought me a new case which I upgraded to an Anvil case. Twice the cost but well worth the protection 🙏
Pucker level 10,000
I know you probably meant to type “level” but the idea of a “Pucker Lever” is hilariously dirty to me. Like, “She found my Pucker Lever”
I bought a $120 Donner guitar and have an old hard shell case that it fits in... it is my "expendable" guitar for airline abuse... I'd be bummed if something happened to it but it wouldn't be catastrophic...couldn't deal with the stress otherwise... That guitar is *heavy* and built like a tank (it's the Tele style version) - it weathered a trip from U.S. to Caribbean recently with no issues - the case / stickers on case definitely had a few fresh travel scars - so it went thru some things (but that's its job 😊) (edit: I flew Delta - so a bit of a shout out to them and baggage crews in NY, Atlanta, and US Virgin Islands - thanks to them the guitar came thru unscathed after quite a journey)
Never flew with a guitar. always thought people took it as a carry on.
I will never again give any airline the opportunity to lose ANYTHING of mine. Checked baggage is LOST baggage. My guitar gets shipped Brown, FX, or Rdwy ahead of me any time it can't sit beside me.
I go to Nashville for work a couple of times a year but yet to still buy a guitar there and take with me on a flight back. Yes I know I can ship one if need be but something about a high end guitar I feel like it needs to fly with me 😅
You scared me, I thought this was going to be another "United Breaks Guitars" moment.
I have flown with mine for work a couple of times and luckily its always been ok. Once I got to put it in the overhead.
Same
As a Les Paul Junior player this made me stressed even more after the fact seeing it was a Junior lol. Even though it had already made it safe! I could never risk the wellbeing of my juniors. 😅
Those gold cases were huge, but very protective.
I've travelled with my guitars a few times, my experience has been almost identical.
That pink tag means you pick it up in the jet bridge, like people with strollers. Not sure why you have a checked bag (white) tag and a pink (gate claim) tag. Next time, rip off the white tag and leave the pink tag. Then you can pick it off on the jet ridge after the flight.
I've done this plenty of times with my Lowden acoustic. I've also flown with a Les Paul. Made me nervous all the time but I got lucky. If you need to fly, I think the best thing you can do is gate check and make sure it's a direct flight.
If that was Brocken I would throw a party with the bartenders being serial killers😂
I take my Strandberg Boden in it's gig bag. I've gone on 3 trips with it and have never had a problem taking it on board. I see people with much larger guitars and bass guitars carrying them on in gig bags as well.
I had a Gibson Les Paul Special in a case like that. Looked like they dropped it from the belly of the plane straight to the ground! Don't think I'll ever try that again.
Had to check my acoustic in Dallas but AA lost it, had to wait 4 days in NYC , I will always gate check my guitars. Or get it on the plane..
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Was feeling every moment of Suspense in this video. Heard a lot of horror stories of guitars not surviving plane trips. 🤣🤣🤣
What airport are you in that has a guitar wall and a display for the Gibson Garage?
It's gotta be Nashville. . .
Now PRS and John Mayer need to invent the TSA proof guitar.
Put it in the cockpit
Great use for those S and E brand guitars, or import clone of your choice. I just wouldn’t travel with something that valuable.
I didn’t know 2015 Gibsons were desirable enough to be “valuable”.
They used to let us put expensive guitars in the captains closet. They stopped doing that. And I stopped flying with guitars when I watched an angry airline associate, take my guitar from the gang plank, walk it down and around to the storage and literally throw it up into the baggage area. Luckily, no damage to the Guitar but the case had a nice big scratch.
Still intact thank you lord .. nice hat btw go celts
You should make a video where you check in a guitar with a hidden camera looking out of the case and see what really goes on
I held my breath through the entire video...
I used to always carry it on and if there wasn’t room in the overheads they’d check it at the gate. I haven’t done it in awhile so idk if they’re cool with that anymore.
Sure is.
Never flown with a guitar, though I broke out in a cold sweat, just watching!!!!......🎸🎸🕺.......✍🏼
As someone who work with baggage handling I have never once not put guitars and other equipment to the side while I load other normal bags. If something is in a hard case or something like that, I assume it is of value for someone and treat it like it was my own. Sadly not everyone thinks like that, but I do think most people do.
Please make a video on how to fly with your guitar. I hear gig bags are better because you can bring it as carry on?
I wouldn't trust that anymore. One surly flight attendant saying "YOU HAVE TO CHECK THAT SIR/MAM!" and you are SCREWED. I have watched them do it to people with STANDARD CARRY ON BAGS. Imagine haveing to hand a GIG BAG to some baggage handling gorilla?!?!
I’ll check a tele without too much stress, but checking a Gibson is a total nightmare. I was SURE you were gonna open it and find a snapped headstock.
I was totally hoping you dropped it at the end lol
LOL
I have a 12-string in a box I am taking to gift to some friends out on the west coast in a few days.
LOTS of bubblewrap involved.
Now do it with a non HP gibson case
Or he could just cut to the chase and throw it down a flight of stairs before the flight.
The 1st time I flew with my Strat was back in 2000, I was boarding the plane, and one of the flight attendants, said oh, we should check that in, I said where will you put it, she pointed to a vertical storage closet on the plane, near the restroom and said she would put it in there and it would be safe. I said ok and gave it to her, and went to my seat. I saw her from seated position go to the closet and I saw the top of the door open, and then it closed. I assumed at this point she put my guitar in the closet as she said she would.......Never assume,.....
When we landed, I went to the closet and waited for her for like 10 minutes and when she finally past by, I asked her if she could get me my guitar. She said, oh I'm sorry there wasn't enough room for so I just checked in with the luggage,.....My face went apple red,... and I jumped her shit right there. I told her she should brought it back to me first, and I could have placed it in bottom of the upper storage bin. Everyone had left the plane and went to the luggage area 10 min. ago. I pointed right in her face, and told her my guitar better there or I was coming back,... I then to ran to the luggage area, and all along on the carousel was my guitar case and by suit case about 20 feet apart....And I did just like Tyler, I immediately open the case to make sure everything was ok,....I then notice a couple police and security were about 30 feet from me watching,....I figured it was because of what I told the attendant. I then closed the case grabbed my bag, and as I was about to walk out of the airport I look at the police, who were looking at me, and I told them,....Tell that bitch it's her lucky day, and kept going......
The next time I flew, I was intercepted again to check the guitar, however I refused and insisted that the guitar stay in the bin above me, explaining exactly why,.....
Never, ever, ever, let them check your guitar.......
Didn't know nashville had a guitar themed airport lol
not sure why the nashville airport just have like 18 different displays of gibson guitars
We've all been there!
Was literally swearing my ass off watching this. Glad she’s ok!! Ugggg can we say anxiety!!!! 🤘🎸🤘
i usually leave a tag on the case saying "break this and i break you"
The amount of anxiety I had during this video
I fly every month and I usually always have a guitar with me. I do have abs cases w/ TSA locks, and I always check them. So far I have yet to have a problem except this last trip. The guitar arrived just fine they usually always have them at pick up at the airlines baggage claim counter rather than w/ the luggage at the luggage claim area. Which I like cause I know its safe and no one is picking it up "by mistake" and running off with it.. This last trip got to hotel everything was cool till I noticed the back of the case the "spine" was smashed in a bit, the metal part of the frame was dented in quite a bit. The guitar was fine, but the case not so much. I am not sure what happened there, pretty disappointed by that since I've been doing this for years and never had a problem before. But, at least the case did it's job, it protected the guitar
Which airline(s) do you use most often, and you have any preference among the different carriers?
@@peony519 I fly mostly Alaska
Thanks Tyler, I'm gonna have a nightmare about this tonight 💀💗
Should have finished by dropping the [empty] case down the escalator
Never in a billion years. The ONE time I traveled with a guitar on a plane I took it as a carry on. I wouldn't trust baggage handlers with a guitar as far as I could throw them. If I desperately needed a guitar where I was going I would either RENT one or buy an inexpensive one and go from there.
I fly with guitars all the time and not had an issue yet
Look I'll admit, this 1 minute video was riveting! 😳
That is my worst nightmare if I fly,they lose it or it breaks.
Whew. The suspense was honestly giving me palpitations hahs
This was def scary, but it would have been scariest if they switched a Fender in place of the Gibson 😢😢
It’s literally a law that you are allowed to take your guitar on the plane with you
I almost made that decicion a few weeks ago, but then realised the true danger of it and left my guitar at home. I just can't imagine life without my LTD. :D
For a second I thought that u were real XD
I'm from Brazil and my dream is to my sister bring me a guitar from Australia because we really can't afford it here
And I guess it will never happen because of that fear
Oh wow a 2015 Gibson
I’ve been obsessed with my LPJ lately
I TOTALLY feel every second of that 😅
I have never flown with an instrument but damn. This is stressful
im curious, what do guitarists use to amplify their electric guitar when they fly with guitars? actual amps seem too big and spacious for flight
Modelling units that fit into a rack. Or literal programmes on laptops. You can play a show off the tiniest things nowadays.
@@metalpuppet5798 oh, thanks
I recently traveled with my Spark Mini and there were no issues... You just have to be sure to carry onboard... It has lithium battery which is dangerous / prohibited in the baggage hold due to the potential to start a fire...
Pain.
Glad to see she's A.. OK!! My ass was puckered for a couple minutes there!!😂
do you say hi??
What is blud on
If your band isn't earning big. This happens every time you travel. I have had cases damaged but always the bass survived 😊
Alternative title: The Tyler Larson Inhale Compilation
If you think that's bad how about waiting for 10 months for an Alex Lifeson Epiphone guitar only to find the headstock snapped in 2 and there were none to be had.
Oh no....nuh-uh...not happening. I've been pretty lucky, they always let me take it down the ramp and give it to then to put under the front with strollers and bring it back up there for me. More recently, alot of times they let me bring it on and put it in overhead...but I usually have a strat in the smaller strat hardshell, not the bigger case like that.
The only thing that makes this video not work is that your in Nashville, if anywhere is gonna handle a guitar right, it's that airport.
You know what was harder to watch? Game 7 last night... still pretty salty at how bad they played.