UPDATE: restrictions revised on carrying musical instruments on planes

Restrictions eased on air passengers' hand luggage
Dan Milmo, transport correspondent
Friday September 22, 2006
The Guardian

Air passengers can take larger hand luggage and musical instruments on to planes from today after the government announced its third change to airport security measures in six weeks.

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A report from The Independent on the threat to musicians' international touring work because new airline security measures prevent them from travelling with their instruments. Cellists Stephen Isserlis and Julian Lloyd Webber speak out about the problem.

Musicians to lobby Parliament over threat to livelihood posed by security measures
By Louise Jury, Arts Correspondent
Published: 11 September 2006

Furious musicians are planning to lobby Parliament over airline security measures because of the threat to their livelihoods.

Limits on the size of hand luggage in the wake of the recent foiled terrorist attack mean all instruments, from the size of a violin upwards, can no longer be taken into aircraft cabins even when they are hundreds of years old and worth millions.

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