As summer festival season approaches, musicians share their air-travel horror stories.
In 2014, Christopher Wilke, a lute player and University of Cincinnati music professor, had his $10,000 instrument destroyed on a Delta flight. Wilke was fastidious with his instrument, even placing a humidifier inside the case to prevent drying. Delta paid for repairs, but he put the blame for these incidents squarely on careless policies from both TSA and the airline.
“Discovering the power of customs is a scary thing. If they want to, they can just hold you there,” she said. A document called a carnet — essentially a global passport for baggage — can help smooth the process, and keeping a detailed manifest of all your gear and extra zip-ties can help inspections move more quickly while keeping cases secure.
But musicians aren’t totally powerless. While the TSA and U.S. Customs and Border Protection are government agencies that, in the Trump era, are often feared as xenophobic, airlines sometimes respond to commercial pressure.
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