It’s become a tale as old as commercial flying itself: while travelling to or from a performance, an artist has a beloved (and expensive, and necessary) piece of equipment damaged at the hands of the airline. It memorably happened to Madi Diaz earlier this year when she flew Delta from Nashville, TN, to Dublin, Ireland, to support Kacey Musgraves’s tour. You truly never know when it could be an instrument’s final flight.
Even those who are barely musicians — not to mention disabled people travelling with mobility aids like wheelchairs, but that’s an angry outburst I should suppress for another day — like Simu Liu can agree that Air Canada, the nation’s largest airline, can be among the worst offenders. St. John’s, NL-based folk act