[Conor Ryan]

Great question, 1403 is from NJ and we flew down last year, and we encountered your worst nightmare too. On the way down to Atlanta, we left from Newark on Airtran and when we were sitting on the plane we were able to see them taking our extra crates and some of our luggage away from the plane. They told us it wouldn't fit on the plane and it would be flown to Atlanta asap.

When we arrived we went down to baggage claim and only about 1/2 the team's luggage and 1/2 the tools that we shipped with us (it was a miracle to get that much stuff through airport security) we got our batteries to be driven down by another team driving down from NJ since they probably wouldn't of gotten through security so well. After filling out what seemed to be a mile of paperwork for the some 20 items that didn't get put on the plane they said that it would be at our hotel within 6 hours. To much of our relief it was there in 4 hours, every single piece of it.

Whats the moral of the story? Don't put your tools on the plane, either have someone volunteer to drive a uhaul down and everyone else fly to Atlanta or have the entire team take a bus.