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Carry-​on

You can bring your musi­cal instru­ment on board with you if it has the size of a reg­u­lar hand bag­gage item, it’s prop­er­ly packed, and it can fit in the over­head com­part­ment of our air­craft: max­i­mum 55 x 35 x 25 cm and up to 12 kg in Economy Class and Premium Comfort Class, or 18 kg in Business Class. In that case, you don’t have to make a reservation.

If an instru­ment is larg­er than hand bag­gage size, it can only be accept­ed on an extra seat or in the hold.

Cabin seat

If your musi­cal instru­ment weighs up to 45 kg, you can store it on an extra seat. The max­i­mum allowed height of your instru­ment is 140 cm. On European flights oper­at­ed by Embraer air­craft, this is 122 cm. An excep­tion on these flights is made for cel­los. The max­i­mum allowed height of your cel­lo on our Embraer air­craft is 140cm and its max­i­mum depth is 33cm. Please note that you need to book this seat in advance by con­tact­ing us.

Checked

You can bring your musi­cal instru­ment instead of an item of checked bag­gage. Is your instru­ment heav­ier or larg­er than allowed on your tick­et? You’ll have to pay the excess fee for over­weight or over­sized baggage.

Does your musi­cal instru­ment weigh between 32 kg and 45 kg or is it larg­er than 300 cm (length + width + height)? You’ll have to make a reser­va­tion to bring it with you. Please arrange this as ear­ly as pos­si­ble, but no lat­er than 48 hours before departure.

Instruments as cargo

Does your musi­cal instru­ment weigh more than 45 kg? Unfortunately, we can­not trans­port it for you. Please con­tact a third-​party ship­ping com­pa­ny to help you with transportation.

Last update 08-​Sep-​2023
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