Traveling with tools

[Geoff Sykes]

Thanks, Don. A million miles deserves some kind of award. I'm not the best
traveler, but I feel very much more at ease with this information. Thanks. 
 
-- Geoff Sykes
-- Assoc. Los Angeles
 
 
 

-----Original Message-----
From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
Of Don Mannino
Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 8:09 PM
To: Pianotech List
Subject: Re: Traveling with tools


Geoff,

Don't even bother trying to do carry on.  Even if they let you take some
things, it isn't worth the hassle.  Checking your bag packed with your tools
and personal effects makes life traveling much simpler. 

Unless your bag is lost, of course. . . . 

Bags are rarely lost, though.  Once in a while I have a bag get temporarily
waylaid, and the airline has always gotten it to me later that day.  The
odds of lost bags are pretty much nil if you don't change planes anywhere -
if you are flying direct from LAX to KC you have another reason to not
worry.

I fly a lot, and in (sigh) 17 years of regular travel and close to a million
flying miles with tools, I have only had things stolen out of my tool box
one time.  Since then I pack the tool box into a large suitcase, and have
had no trouble.

Don Mannino


At 07:44 PM 6/14/2007, you wrote:



I just got off the phone with both Midwest Airlines and The Travel Safety
Administration regarding my need to take my tuning hammer and fork with me
to the convention. Midwest said that security is totally in the hands of the
TSA. The guy at TSA said that the ultimate decision on any carry-on item is
at the whim of the person who checks you through security. In other words,
if that person sees my hammer as a threat I have to put it in my checked in
luggage. I was hoping to get away with carry-on luggage only but it appears
I will have to submit to check-in. (sigh)

What are the experiences of others having traveled with tools as carry-on?

-- Geoff Sykes

-- Assoc. Los Angeles


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