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This guy too...
If you're taking it in the cabin loosening the strings probably doesn't make a big difference. If it's getting checked, in a hard case or shipped I think it potentially could make a huge difference. Headstock breaks are a pretty common thing.
I was talking to Olli in NYC, he says he just walks on for early boarding without even saying anything. It makes sense. I think they say something about passengers who need extra time.
The issue though is connecting flights where you def can't get a guitar onboard. So you need to be prepared for that.
I do like Mono cases a lot.
"The guitar is strong; it used to be a tree." Right. And the tree's structure was exactly the same as the guitar's.
"Heavy expensive carbon fiber hard case." Heavy compared to what? A Hoffee is certainly expensive, and their 11-13 pound spec isn't as light as a gig bag (a Mono seems to run around 7.5 pounds), and of course Caltons are famously heavy--and seriously protective. FWIW, last summer, at age 79, I lugged an irreplaceable archtop in a custom Calton around the Minneapolis airport for 2-1/2 days (lots of flight cancellations). I gate-checked it, and both of us lived to tell the tale. (And at my destination, Ashokan, the guitar lived in a good, luggable TKL gig bag.)
Now, to be fair to Dawes, he's not US based and is doing lots of international long-haul flying and is dealing with a range of local and airline rules. I suspect he also likes to travel light. And while his human-wrangling advice is solid, for those of us flying US domestic--which currently is going to mean a lot of nearly-full regional-class aircraft with very tight in-cabin storage--gate-checking in a drop/crush-resistant hard case is about as safe and convenient as it gets.