{"id":117,"date":"2006-08-27T13:36:42","date_gmt":"2006-08-27T13:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/2006\/08\/27\/error-in-the-skies\/"},"modified":"2006-08-27T13:39:34","modified_gmt":"2006-08-27T13:39:34","slug":"error-in-the-skies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/2006\/08\/27\/error-in-the-skies\/","title":{"rendered":"Error in the skies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/entertainment.timesonline.co.uk\/article\/0,,14932-2326822,00.html\">Here&#8217;s an important piece<\/a> from Steven Isserlis on the ever-worsening travel situation for musicians in and out of Britain. Let me state this clearly- these new rules have nothing to do with safety. I&#8217;ve been through several worst case scenarios with airlines because of my cello over the years- it&#8217;s led to missed flights, lost gigs, and worst, several thousands of dollars in restoration costs to my 370 year-old instrument. Hard to believe it just got worse, but it did.<\/p>\n<p>After 9\/11 the US authorities briefly tried something similar before Congress actually stepped in to restore sanity (how often does that happen???). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.analogartsensemble.net\/2006\/06\/delta-air-is-no-help-to-musicians.html\">Delta <\/a>actually makes a policy of flouting US law by refusing carriage to instruments on many of their flights, and they&#8217;ve been <a href=\"http:\/\/majikthise.typepad.com\/majikthise_\/2006\/06\/musicianss_unio.html\">blacklisted by the union<\/a> as a result. If you love music, write your legislator, your aviation authority and your airline, and let them know how you feel about this.<\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/2006\/08\/27\/error-in-the-skies\/\" send=\"false\" layout=\"box_count\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"true\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an important piece from Steven Isserlis on the ever-worsening travel situation for musicians in and out of Britain. Let me state this clearly- these new rules have nothing to do with safety. I&#8217;ve been through several worst case scenarios with airlines because of my cello over the years- it&#8217;s led to missed flights, lost [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-opion-life-as-a-performing-musician","category-performing-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}