I hope you find your answer. This summer I was traveling back to FL for a few weeks, and wanted to take aymy Janome 11000SE with me, as I have free maintenance on it from the dealer in FL. I called the airlines (Air Tran)several times and the answer I got was if it was withing certain size restrictions, and weighted less then 50 pounds, it SHOULD be okay to carry on. (No way was I going to check it). I wound up leaving it in MI and paying for maintenance rather then getting to the airport to find out it wasn't okay for carry on. Good luck.