>>I've had much better luck carrying my cello around on my back, though.
>> Hong Meiling, I'm not.
>
>I would be incredibly paranoid about carrying around something so
>expensive but also fragile on my back. Or anywhere else, really, but
>especially on my back.
>

Friend of mine is a fairly serious cellist who has taken them - yes, plural! because I don't know sane people - on aircraft before. Apparently the best way to manage this is to buy your cello a seat.