I'll return home in a few days with an airplane.However I might stay there for over a month so I don't want to leave my guitar behind.So it is possible to take my guitar with me on the plane?I need advice because I don't if it worths the risk.

StratoGR Wrote:
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> I'll return home in a few days with an
> airplane.However I might stay there for over a
> month so I don't want to leave my guitar behind.So
> it is possible to take my guitar with me on the
> plane?I need advice because I don't if it worths
> the risk.


yeah.....but loosen the strings, or ya might snap the neck....and wrap some kind of clothing around the neck for protection......p.s. hope you have a hard-shell case

I mean up with me not with the luggages.

StratoGR Wrote:
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> I mean up with me not with the luggages.


yeah, you can bring it on that flying contraption.....they might store it for ya....p.s. loosen the strings anyway....not sure what the high altitude might do..........unless ya wanna walk down the aile with it and break out a version of "Who's Drivin Yur Plane"

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I didn't new that altitude can damage guitar.If I'll take the risk and take the guitar on the airport I will follow your advice for the strings.

I once brought an electric guitar on a long plane trip as hand luggage by detaching the neck - not that big a hassle.

There has been a lot of fuss going on here this summer over professional musicians not being allowed to bring their instruments in the cabin. If top-flight orchestras have to put their priceless Stradivarius's in the hold or not fly - then they don't fly. I think it may have been relaxed a little by now, but I wouldn't count on being able to hug your guitar all the way, especially if you're passing through the UK at any point.

I am just doing a half hour trip from one island of Greece to Athens.And the flight is 7:35 in the morning.

Ceck the airline's website, or give them a call - if you're allowed to take the guitar into the cabin.
most of them did allow it in summer (in a gigbag, not a case),
but that was before the Heathrow insident.
tell us how it came out - I'm interested, anyway.