Saturday, December 29, 2012

Flying with Cello

"In his blog, L.A.-based musician Lynn Harrell has written of 11 years of buying full-fare, SkyMiles-earning Delta tickets for himself and his cello's seat beside him, collecting half a million miles for both.
One day, Delta contacted him "in a rude letter that was really a hand-slap," he says, informing Harrell that his own frequent-flier miles were being confiscated and that both he and "Cello Harrell" would be barred from collecting miles."

Read more of Lynn and other musicians' challenges in the post-TSA and post-airline meltdown era here. So sad, it's funny.

2 comments:

mayberry said...

Those who play large instruments are really stuck. I remember when the tuba belonging to one of my dad's bandmates was dropped from a height of 15 feet thanks to a baggage handler. It wasn't pretty!

fourthbreakfast said...

Ouch!! That is tragic. :(