I find it disturbing that they will trust a PRS, a Martin, or any other quality guitar to a piece of rag and foam....
I love cases. But...
I’ve flown to sessions with PRSes in the old US-made leather Reunion Blues gig bags. The leather was very thick and didn’t flex, and the foam was the much more protective closed-cell kind.
Much, much more pleasant than traveling with the hard case. I’d trust traveling with my PS guitars in one of those things, but I no longer have one, and they stopped making them.
A good gig bag is a wonderful piece of gear for short-term stuff, if you’re mindful that you have to be a tiny bit more careful.
The old Incase bags (Fender shipped their Mayer Strats in them) were every bit as protective as a hard case, if not superior to a hard case. They were heavily padded with thick closed cell foam, with protective hard plastic under the outer layer of nylon. Only a carbon fiber case that was as well padded could protect a guitar better than that bag.
I wish they still made those, too. I had one several years ago. I sold it with a guitar thinking I could get another one. But no. Only used ones, and even those are hard to find.
For long term storage, though, a wooden case is the best buffer against temperature and humidity changes, because wood is hygroscopic, and a good insulator.
However, if I had a travel project today, I’d get a Mono or Reunion Blues Continental (kind of the same idea as the Incase), or a Harvest leather bag (very heavy duty and German-made), and take a PS in it without worry.
