Okay guys, I started a hypothetical Q&A about this many weeks ago, now it's real and factual. Delta announced, effective May 13, that the only electronics permitted in the cabin of an International flight returning INTO the USA will be a cell phone. So no DSLR's or lenses will be permitted in the cabin. Down they go into the luggage area. That seriously impacts many of us this summer, definitely my self and my other half. And please let's not get side tracked by the fact that it was announced only in Cincinnati...today. This will become total reality before May is over. So let's brainstorm about the possibilities.

So if I trim it down to one Canon 5DII body and one L series lenses, I'll be able to take it TO Europe in the cabin, but not on the return. I do not wish to "ship" it back, in fact time prohibits that, for we will be going straight from the ship to the airport. That leaves me with using something like a Pelican case, for the body and lens only, and then to "lock" (?) the case, check it in, and let it travel below the cabin.

What recommendations (or prior experience) can any of you offer for brand/product/model "safe" case that could survive the luggage section? And in our case, we change planes twice, so three planes would be used for the flight back to the states.

I thank you in advance for your responses about a durable case to travel with the luggage.