Although it may not be the most expensive piece of kit around, i’m still caught between flying with my LP (+ some outboard stuff, midi keyboard & guitar) and putting it with my house things. Its a 2hr flight from cape town to jo’burg and i think ±12hrs with the furnature movers. Worries about safest option…
As long as you don’t fly United and have a flight case, there should be no problem flying. Of course, if you have the case from the Moog website, it should go with the movers, as it is a road case. 
Yeah Voltor, I heard that song Thursday and man is it funny and sad at the same time. If you love what you’re traveling with, keep it close.
flight case… that’s the problem Voltor_
Every time I think of getting one I seem to convince myself of other things to get with the ±R3k instead_
Now I am in trouble, all I have is the box it came in… 
Would that be a shipping carton or the display box? I wouldn’t trust movers with a display box, and I certainly wouldn’t put a shipping carton on a plane with baggage handlers. 
If you plan on moving, or if you ever THINK you’ll need a good case, buy a good case. It’ll be the best money you’ve spent, even if you only use it once. I bought my road case, used it once, and it’s paid for itself with that one use. I’ll use it again when I move.
I’ve carried my guitar over 10 times in the past couple years on smaller planes in the U.S. with just a gig bag. It fits in the overhead compartment. Before that I had a small hard shell case and it was put in a little closet up front. I don’t reccomend that though. Hard shell cases are significantly larger. Your guitar will be safe in a gig bag in the overhead compartment.
If you encounter a problem tell them thats what you’ve always done before if they try to throw a fit. Worse comes to worse they’ll put it some closet area. They definetly can’t throw a gig bag in the cargo hold, they’d be asking for a lawsuit.
Not in my experience. Delta made me check an acoustic in a gig bag and they smashed it (“You have to check that” “Are you nuts?” “Sign this waiver please” “It’ll get destroyed!” “We aren’t liable if that happens.”). They are notorious for treating musicians poorly and I’ll never fly with them again.
All of my flights since then have been with an aluminum flight case or a mandolin.
Bryan
The last time I had to fly it was with 2 very rare and vintage guitars. I bought a seat for them and they rode next to me all buckled in cozy.
Genius! So simple I never would have thought of that! If I ever fly with my LP, that’s how it’s going.
Crap. I should’ve thought of that buying a seat thing, cause i got lucky with a cheap BA ticket a few weeks ago. Im calling them tomorrow to find out the safest way for this as i dont have a flight case. My guitars have cases and i’ve been up + down with them. But my children, Little 'ol poor Phatty…
… and my next purchase has to be the LP case from MOOG, without a doubt.
Btw: braved it up on a british airways flight as fragile last friday. Only had guts to test it out (playing-wise) last night and all is safe + sound
Nice! Thanks for the update! 