Do not check your guitar!!! I’ve flown all over the country and internationally with my guitar in typical hard case. They fit in the overhead bins. They might try and tell you different, but stick to your guns!
It’s just a standard hardcase, not a fancy plastic one, its particle board and leather outer. I was nervous the first time I did it. But I contacted some of my touring musician friends who fly to a lot of gigs, and they told me its policy to allow musicians to carry on their instruments.
So you are saying my Taylor 810 with its facto4y case will fit in the overhead of a Southwest plane? I’ve never flown with my guitar before, the stories I’ve heard we’re just to scary.
My guitar is a taylor cutaway, with standard factory case, it fits. I’ve seen Cello’s, and Bass’s carried on. And have touring friends that travel with banjo’s cello’s etc… they fit.