Hoping to prevent the death of my sax

I'm going on a trip to Europe next year with my saxophone, and the group I'm going with is requiring that it goes in checked luggage. They told us to buy a sturdy case because the checkers throw the cases quite hard and many times instruments have been damaged on this trip. The repair technician at my music store told me to never let them put it in checked luggage, it will die no matter what case you have, so just tell them you will carry on. This is not an option for me, so I've asked around and have gotten a lot of different responses on what type of case to use. The first person we asked said skb cases are good, but the next said there's something wrong with the latch that makes them come unhooked and die during flight, and the last person we asked said only walt johnson cases will keep it from dieing. So I'm really confused about what to get, and I was hoping someone on here would know what to do.

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