{"id":12005,"date":"2023-09-25T14:08:38","date_gmt":"2023-09-25T14:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/?p=12005"},"modified":"2023-09-25T14:08:38","modified_gmt":"2023-09-25T14:08:38","slug":"sheku-kanneh-mason-denied-entry-british-airways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/2023\/09\/25\/sheku-kanneh-mason-denied-entry-british-airways\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheku Kanneh-Mason Denied Entry on British Airways"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_12008\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12008\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12008\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/09\/Sheku-Kanneh-Mason.jpg\" alt=\"Sheku Kanneh-Mason\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/09\/Sheku-Kanneh-Mason.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/09\/Sheku-Kanneh-Mason-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/09\/Sheku-Kanneh-Mason-1024x536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/09\/Sheku-Kanneh-Mason-768x402.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12008\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo courtesy of the artists<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason was refused boarding despite having bought a separate ticket for his instrument.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s going on?:<\/strong> Sheku Kanneh-Mason, the cellist who famously performed at the royal wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, was denied entry from a British Airways flight with his cello. Kanneh-Mason had purchased two tickets for the flight&#8211;one for his cello, one for himself&#8211;yet was told at the gate he could not board with no compensation offered. Kanneh-Mason has since publicly complained on social media to the airline, prompting widespread outcry on X (the social media site formerly known as Twitter).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who is Kanneh-Mason again?:<\/strong> Sheku Kanneh-Mason is a 24-year-old cellist who rose to prominence when he became the first Black musician to win the BBC Young Musician Award in 2014. In 2019, he played for an audience of 2 billion at the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why does it matter?:<\/strong> Musicians are often subject to inconsistent airline policies regarding instruments. The cellist Steven Isserlis <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StevenIsserlis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has often complained<\/a> of similar treatment by airlines as well as the violist Rachel Bolt, who in 2017 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestrad.com\/klm-airline-refuses-to-allow-viola-in-the-cabin-despite-misleading-hand-baggage-policy\/3400.article\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">had a stand-off<\/a> with the Dutch airline KLM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason was refused boarding despite having bought a separate ticket for his instrument.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":12008,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[86,3],"tags":[334],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/09\/Sheku-Kanneh-Mason.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12005"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12005"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12009,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12005\/revisions\/12009"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12005"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=12005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}