Buying a seat on an airplane for your tuba

[bloke]

https://www.formslaw.com/hold-harmless- ... 0Agreement

[Three Valves]

@tofu Yes, my advice is known as the Rick Blaine; "I don't stick my neck out for nobody!!"

[Yorkboy]

Have you considered Uship.com ? It is essentially a service connecting people with shippers who have extra room on a haul they are already planning to do. You post the starting and ending locations, time frame and shipment particulars, then different shippers make bids/offers, which you can accept or decline. Something to check on at least.

I have in the past, and in my experience they really don’t save you much in the long run, especially when it comes to long distances.

Airfares right now are stupid cheap - buying an extra seat is waaaaayy less money (like $59) than any shipping option (except for maybe the Dog), and the horn never leaves your sight.

I intend to combine the trip with a visit to a relative - if worse comes to worst, I can leave it at their house until I come up with another plan; but with airplanes being essentially empty now, I don’t think it will be likely that the horn I’m buying will get “bumped” (and it appears that my carrier has a fairly liberal policy on what is called “seat baggage/cabin cargo”).

“fingers crossed, but as prepared as is possible”

[York-aholic]

Excellent. Looking forward to reading your after action report.