Flight Bags

I do admit that I am a bag queen. Having spent the last 30 years of my life living out of one, I don’t mind spending some of that widebody scrip to have a nice one.
 
poser765 said:
Yeah but what specifically? Like am I going to just be annoyed on a 3 day or is my suitcase going to be a disaster?
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They are wider than usual wheels and have more rolling resistance.

Check the luggage thread - there’s a link to the replacement wheels on Amazon. $20. Worth it. I did same on my B&R and it made a difference .
 
I know this may be borderline blasphemous, but I love my Tumi set (Continental size Alpha roller bag and laptop briefcase) that I've been using since my days flying corporate. That ballistic nylon material is pretty much indestructible and cleans up really well. 7 years on the roller and coming up on 10 for the briefcase and they look as good as new, even after getting crushed by the airstair door on a G-IV. I know the price is eye watering but it's a great case for "buy once, cry once" and you don't look like a typical airline pilot. Plus I like the 4 wheels.
 
Skåning said:
Anybody use a four wheel (spinner) bag? Thinking about one of B&R’s
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flyinggreasemnky said:
Those bags should be banned. Everyone walks in the terminal with them two feet from their side and they block everyone from getting by. A couple walking together will take up the width of a terminal because of those stupid bags. Sorry, pet peeve.
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If I may, let me offer an alternative position from a cushion rider. I have had both (i.e. two wheel and four wheel) and have decided to stay with the four wheel for this reason -- when on board (aboard), and I have to sit past row 7, I found that the four-wheeler was much less stressful to wheel down the aisle. I simply turn it sideways, and down the aisle I go without banging anyone already seated in an aisle seat, or just the seat itself. Very easy. With the two-wheeler, I found that dragging it down the aisle was not as easy as it sounds, so I ended up pushing it down like a lawnmower, but still dimensionally wide. (And, actually, I wish others would extend the same courtesy....I can't count the number of times I get hit with a backpack as the later groups board).

I do aplogize for those of us that are walking slower through the terminal, but if you would like to know my pet peeve, it's those folks that for whatever reason have TSA pre-check and don't know what to do. It happens a lot during the holidays...typically older folks or families. Very frustrating for us frequent cushion riders, as I'm sure it is for you. Last point...when flying out of LAX, I love the retinal scan...walk right up, scan, through TSA, done in about 3 minutes (unless of course, grandma and grandpa are ahead of me).
 
This is going to sound stupid, but for the longest time I actually just used an Aerocoast cooler as my flight bag. At the moment, due to constraints of some of the gear I carry, I actually use an even smaller cooler as my flight bag, and a fjällräven purse for my electronics and miscellany.

I don't know why I keep going to coolers. I think it's because all the space isn't consumed by pockets—I don't need 328 oddly-shaped pockets that were designed with some intention I can't fathom and refuse to fit any of my gear. I just need one, maybe two sections—one for credentials, one for stuff. Maybe one for EFB, laptop and iPad.

I even bought the Aerocoast flight bag because my thought process was "If I like the cooler as a flight bag, the flight bag designed after the cooler should be perfect!" ... but oddly it's too big, and I still preferred the cooler.

I'm not the type of person to have one system and follow it forever, though. I embrace entropy.
 
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