Airlines/Airline Industry Indifferent To Bike Travel

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There I was ready to check into my flight at O'Hare Airport

here in the Windy City complete with my backpack & bike when

the TSA agent gave me the news: "sorry, you can't take your bike

with you..."

OH MY G_D WHAT THE H_LL AM I GOING TO DO NOW!!!

Well, I'll just have to lock it up out in front and hope it's still there

in a week or two, I thought.

TSA Agent - "If you lock it up ANYWHERE in/around the airport we'll

cut it off"

Me: "You mean there's NO WHERE in this whole airport a traveler can

lock up a bike"

TSA Agent: "That's policy, and it's the police who'll remove it"

So,

they agreed to book me on a flight 24 hours later, no charge, so I could

go back leave bike at home all the way on the Blue line train how i came.

Actually the TSA agent was a really good guy - sympathetic, pleading my

case to his superiors, but to no avail

O.K., I should've been more prepared - but the last time I took a bike with

me there were, luckily, spare cardboard containers lying around they gave me

to use.

I'm now learning about "official" protective cases which are too big & bulky to

carry along/ride with, but I'm sorry - the airlines THEMSELVES should be providing

these apparatuses - they can certainly afford to. Extra Baggage Fee to do so?

Hmm, well, I guess that'd be reasonable.

Hence, we're free to ride DIRECTLY from the airport at our arrived destination

in a minimalist & sensible way.

Time to raise this ruckus!!

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