And now for something completely different.  Musician Dave Carroll
tell us that he and his band experienced unfriendly skies when traveling with United Airlines. 
Here's what he says:

"In the spring of 2008, Sons of Maxwell were traveling to Nebraska for
a one-week tour and my Taylor guitar was witnessed being thrown by
United Airlines baggage handlers in Chicago. I discovered later that
the $3500 guitar was severely damaged. They didn’t deny the experience
occurred but for nine months the various people I communicated with put
the responsibility for dealing with the damage on everyone other than
themselves and finally said they would do nothing to compensate me for
my loss. So I promised the last person to finally say “no” to
compensation (Ms. Irlweg) that I would write and produce three songs
about my experience with United Airlines and make videos for each to be
viewed online by anyone in the world. United: Song 1 is the first of
those songs. United: Song 2 has been written and video production is
underway. United: Song 3 is coming. I promise."

The moral: don't mess with a musician.

 –Eliot Wagner