I bought a lovely new USA 08 standard Fender Jazz in Boston last year.
It came back on the plane with me to Heathrow, then British Airheads (sorry, Airways)
managed to 'lose it' in Terminal 5, so it didn't get on the plane to Manchester with me.
I found this out when miserably standing jetlagged and semi-coherent by the baggage
carousel at Manchester Airport, watching for a bass case that never showed up.
The customs people called me over to say my bass case had 'missed the flight'.
It was on a long printoff of list baggage that somehow had not managed to turn
up at the gate at the right time.
They said that it would be arriving in 2 hours. I already had transport booked and waiting
to get me home and so they said that they would courier it to me later on.
They asked where I had flown from? I missed out the bit about buying the bass in the
USA and said [b]'London'[/b], as that's honestly where I'd flown from.
I told them that this bass was my oldest friend and asked couldn't they have misplaced
something else instead?
It arrived at 7.30 in the evening. I never paid a bean in duty.
Bargain.
The remainder of our adventures with BA on that return trip is on my blog at
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