Finnish airline breaks Olli Soikkeli's prized guitar

bohemewarbler

http://acousticguitar.com/finnish-airline-breaks-olli-soikkelis-prized-guitar-watch-him-play-it-in-this-ag-session/

MichaelHorowitz

that sucks!

Elí Saúl

i was just reading about this on RFQ's fb page, it's terrible news to have your instrument damaged!

Bones

Effing airlines suck...just my 2 cents.

One reason I don't travel much.

Jazzaferri

One needs to have a v ery strong case that supports the guitar perfectly and loosen the string tension.

Jazzaferri

My heart goes out to him. Kinda like losing a friend

terrassier

Jazzaferri wrote: »

One needs to have a v ery strong case that supports the guitar perfectly and loosen the string tension.

They must have run over it with the forklift - the AJL cases are pretty solid.

Nejc

Well sadly the no matter how good of a guitar case you buy its still not gonna absorb the impact 100%. With that said, if you destroy a guitar which is in a AJL case it is pure negligence from the side of the airport staff..

Jazzaferri

Have you seen Martin Taylors case. Made for the US army to ship weapons.

Buco

The real jackass is the person who insisted to check it.
Once it's on the airport conveyor belt system it's a coin toss for it's survival. Guitar cases and those things just aren't compatible with all the tight 90 degree turns, easy for the case to get stuck and be forced out of it by piling luggage. At that point something has to give.

guitarmike

For that kind of matters we all know that airlines suck.
Still, for 3 years I advertised a 16 1/2" Calton case in brand new condition
for half the price of a new one ( indestructible..)
I never had one single answer.......
It finally got sold at DIJ.