traveling with tuning tools

[jolly roger]

Hi Tom,
             I fly quite a bit with a full tool kit, it always has to go
baggage.  The box is pad locked, but as of yet not any real problems, even
across borders. Now here's the funny, Air Canada, tags the tool box, "Heavy
use 2 men to handle".   Guess the baggage handlers would never make it as
Piano Techs.
Roger



At 12:28 AM 7/11/01 -0400, you wrote:
>I'm off to Reno tomorrow, and just to be safe, I called United Airlines to 
>inquire if I would have any trouble taking my tuning kit on the airplane.  
>The woman at United asked me what kind of tools was I planning to take on
the 
>airplane?  I told her I had screwdrivers, pliers, a tuning hammer...  She 
>interrupted, "How many screwdrivers?"  OK... "I have two big ones, a
phillips 
>head and a standard, and two small ones, also a phillips and a standard."  I 
>was put on hold until she could talk to a supervisor.  She came back a
minute 
>or two later and said she wanted a complete list of all the tools that I 
>wanted to take on the plane.  However, if I wanted to stow the tools in my 
>baggage, it was fine.  
>
>I told her I would just take my hammer, mutes and tuning fork, and stow them 
>in my luggage.   
>
>That's all I'll really need in Reno, but what if I was taking the technical 
>test and I needed my tools?  I guess I'd just have to stow them in with the 
>baggage.
>
>Anyone else ever experience any difficulties traveling with your tools?  
>Never having flown anywhere with my tools before, I was just lucky that I
had 
>the sudden impulse to call the airline and check.
>
>Tom S.
>