{"id":21048,"date":"2014-10-05T10:45:01","date_gmt":"2014-10-05T14:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/?p=21048"},"modified":"2014-11-02T10:33:20","modified_gmt":"2014-11-02T14:33:20","slug":"the-scoop-air-canada-backtracks-on-viola-carry-on-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2014\/10\/05\/the-scoop-air-canada-backtracks-on-viola-carry-on-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"THE SCOOP | Air Canada backtracks on viola carry-on policy"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Viola_Violin_musicatoronto\"<\/a>Since reporting <\/a>last week,\u00a0Air Canada has been on the defensive regarding an apparently discriminatory musical instrument baggage policy, which permits violins and guitars as carry-ons, but not violas.<\/p>\n

Air Canada\u00a0have since responded to our friends at Slipped Disc<\/a>, saying\u00a0they are aware of the discrepancy between violins and violas outlined in their\u00a0baggage policy, and will be correcting the discrepancy soon.<\/p>\n

“We are making changes and in the coming days it will be aligned with the policies for violins and guitars; our website will be updated when this is completed,” a representative for Air Canada stated.<\/p>\n

This is certainly good news for violists, but what about the\u00a0other discrepancies in Air Canada’s baggage policy, such as allowing baritone saxophones as carry-ons, but not french horns or trombones? The policy also makes reference to allowing only “folded” bassoons as carry-ons. Bassoons are made of\u00a0solid-wood, and\u00a0disassemble into pieces, but certainly do not “fold”.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0question is,\u00a0has anyone at Air Canada bothered to consult\u00a0an actual musician before implementing a policy that seems to have no basic understanding of musical\u00a0instruments?<\/p>\n

The Future of Music Coalition, a\u00a0US-based advocacy group agrees, and has published an article<\/a>\u00a0outlining the efforts towards implementing an\u00a0FAA<\/span> Modernization and Reform Act of 2012<\/a>,\u00a0which would mandate that the FAA<\/span>\u00a0create\u00a0uniform standards that all airlines must follow. These include the following:<\/p>\n

1: Airlines must permit passengers \u201cto carry a violin, guitar, or other musical instrument in the aircraft cabin, without charging the passenger a fee in addition to any standard fee that carriers may require for comparable carry-on baggage\u201d if the instrument can be safely stowed in overhead bins and if there is room\u00a0at the time the passenger\u00a0boards.<\/p>\n

2:\u00a0For instruments that don\u2019t fit in overhead bins (such as cellos), airlines must allow passengers to carry the instrument on board with the purchase of an extra\u00a0ticket.<\/p>\n

3: For larger instruments (still within applicable weight and size requirements), airlines must transport the instruments as checked\u00a0baggage.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0FAA are\u00a0still working on a final\u00a0draft of the\u00a0regulations.<\/p>\n

Until then, it looks like musicians will need to\u00a0keep\u00a0resorting to workarounds like this one: (via<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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Since reporting last week,\u00a0Air Canada has been on the defensive regarding an apparently discriminatory musical instrument baggage policy, which permits violins and guitars as carry-ons, but not violas. Air Canada\u00a0have since responded to our friends at Slipped Disc, saying\u00a0they are aware of the discrepancy between violins and violas outlined in their\u00a0baggage policy, and will be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":22462,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[117,39,67],"tags":[4966,4980,4979,3497],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/10\/Viola_Violin_musicatoronto.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-5tu","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21048"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21048"}],"version-history":[{"count":33,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21111,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21048\/revisions\/21111"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21048"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=21048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}