FOFlying

Travel these days is getting interesting. Airlines are enforcing all kinds of new rules and baggage fees because of gas prices. It is a unique challenge to figure out how to get what you need to a gig while keeping within the guidelines. Most airlines seem to have a standard size/weight policy. No checked item can exceed 62" total length (Length + width + height) and must be under 50 lbs. How do you fly across the country with a four octave behemoth vibraphone, you ask? How do you deal with TSA peeps rifling through a carefully organized case, only to throw everything back without regard to safe transport? With a scale in one hand, and a tape measure in the other... these are the things we have to figure out.