Manolo's stolen cue

In 2006 I flew from Miami to Atlanta for a tournament and I decided to ship my szamboti fedex. Those bozos at Fedex lost my cue for a few days and no one at their company could have cared less. They eventually did find it and I probably lost a few months off of my life sweating it the whole time.
 
gedukas said:
you can't carry a skateboard on a plane. That is def not true, as i flew recently cross country and had to put my board as check luggage.
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Maybe they just didn't like the way you look. I saw a skateboard on a domestic flight only two months ago.
 
when traveling we usually wrap our cues in clothes and pack them in the middle of our suitcase, then we just carry on the empty cases and this seems to always work out.
 
There is....

AZE said:
I know some guys, I don't want to go so far as calling them friends, but people I know, who work for or have worked for a certain airport, handling luggage.... yeah, it happens, a lot.... from what I hear.
I think it's crazy that there isn't some system that can completely prevent this from happening.
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The system is called obfuscation. What I do is put my cues in 1 and 1 cases and pack them in my luggage and then carry on my empty playing case. That way, no baggage handlers have a clue that the cues are there.

Jaden...

p.s. I came up with doing that when I flew because I had sweated whether my cues would be there when I got there too many times, and it was only once. lol....
 
you can't carry on cues period.

longhair said:
Maybe they just didn't like the way you look. I saw a skateboard on a domestic flight only two months ago.
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If you look on the list it says no club like objects and the TSA has ruled that pool cues are club like objects. IT sucks but until they realize that these rules do absolutely nothing but infringe on our rights and take them away again, we're screwed as pool players.
 
Guys,

Playing in and around Europe; then to other continents - we mostly fly everywhere. Bagging cues (and cases) in suitcases or using flightbags is just the norm. Its what you do when you fly.

Some guys have had cases go missing, Marcus Chamat had an unreal run of 5 lost bags on 6 flights out of Sweden (luckily all turned up - some after the tourney had finished mind you !).

How many of you guys regularly fly to tournaments in or outside of the states ?

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