American Airlines unboarded my cello

They’re back to their wicked old ways.

Report from an airline blog:

On April 5, two elderly passengers were removed from an American Airlines flight because the gate agent wouldn’t let them fly with their cello – even though they’d purchased a seat for the cello from the airline and flown with it on the first segment of their trip.

The passengers had flown from Palm Springs to Dallas – Fort Worth. They boarded their second flight. And a gate agent came on board and declared that they’d be unable to fly unless they either:

waited for a later flight operated by an Airbus, instead of the Boeing 737, or
checked the cello as baggage because instruments are not allowed in seats on 737s

Read on here.