{"id":2722,"date":"2013-12-11T14:24:45","date_gmt":"2013-12-11T14:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geraldgarcia.com\/wordpress\/?p=2722"},"modified":"2013-12-11T14:24:45","modified_gmt":"2013-12-11T14:24:45","slug":"an-airline-for-musicians-to-avoid-at-all-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/?p=2722","title":{"rendered":"An airline for musicians to avoid at all costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Veuling, the Spanish budget airline, forced two violinists in a string quartet to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/slippeddisc\/2013\/12\/airline-staff-force-string-quartet-to-carry-instruments-naked.html\">carry their instruments unprotected<\/a>\u00a0on board, or face a steep financial penalty. They were quite rude about it.<\/p>\n<p>This now appears to be the airline\u2019s policy. Violinist David Peralta booked an Iberia flight from Amsterdam to Barcelona and found his ticket assigned to Vueling. Iberia, apparently, is a part-owner of this shaky company.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com.c51.previewmysite.eu\/WPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Screen-Shot-2013-12-11-at-14.20.52.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2725\" alt=\"Veuling\" src=\"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com.c51.previewmysite.eu\/WPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Screen-Shot-2013-12-11-at-14.20.52.png\" width=\"606\" height=\"344\" srcset=\"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/WPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Screen-Shot-2013-12-11-at-14.20.52.png 606w, http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/WPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Screen-Shot-2013-12-11-at-14.20.52-300x170.png 300w, http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/WPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Screen-Shot-2013-12-11-at-14.20.52-250x141.png 250w, http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/WPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Screen-Shot-2013-12-11-at-14.20.52-500x283.png 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 606px) 100vw, 606px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/norman.lebrecht.5\" target=\"_blank\">Norman Lebrecht<\/a> has more to say <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/slippeddisc\/2013\/12\/an-airline-for-musicians-to-avoid-at-all-costs.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>\u00a0on Slipped Disc<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/slippeddisc\/2013\/12\/airline-staff-force-string-quartet-to-carry-instruments-naked.html\" target=\"_blank\">A previous report on this airline<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veuling, the Spanish budget airline, forced two violinists in a string quartet to\u00a0carry their instruments unprotected\u00a0on board, or face a steep financial penalty. They were quite rude about it. This now appears to be the airline\u2019s policy. Violinist David Peralta &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/?p=2722\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":247767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,5],"tags":[285,620],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2722"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2722"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2726,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2722\/revisions\/2726"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/247767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}