The Future of JC

Autothrust Blue said:
I haven't had to send the Briggs in just yet but I assume it'll be painless.
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It's so nice when you stumble across a place with good customer service. I called them from the C concourse in ATL asking if they had any tricks up their sleeves to stow the handle. Customer service rep says "hold on, let me talk to the people who designed it." They couldn't come up with anything other than using force, which they pointed out I'd have to do to get it into a box to ship it back to them.

I also had to email them because it turns out I'm not so good at following directions. I removed everything from my bag except my very well hidden AirTag. It's a good thing because the tracking number that UPS gave me didn't work...I blame @Boris Badenov
 
Screaming_Emu said:
To me I think the weight is its own worst enemy. Every time it gets tossed around if you have to check it, it gets that much more banged up because it weighs as much as a CRJ. There's nothing that should happen to a bag that should cause a frame that thick to bend like that.
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The one place the weight works against me is trying to make it a carry on when flying European carriers. They're very weird about the weight limits.
 
Autothrust Blue said:
I hate the “they’re magically weightless” thing they can do here in the States when a valet bag becomes a cabin bag again.
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I don’t think that’s really still a thing since airlines started charging for checked bags. The vast majority of the time they’re soliciting gate checks because they anticipate running out of overhead bin space.
 
🦈💜 said:
Ok, but ... why is lighter better? I prefer heavier. As far as the frame warping ... *shrug* I dunno. None of that stuff bothers me. If it broke, or didn't function properly, or didn't hold enough, or wasn't reliable or robust, or user-serviceable... that'd be different. I think I have zero original screws ... third set of wheels, but it's still going strong.
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I’m afraid I’m going to mess up my shoulder or elbow one of these days hoisting the thing onto the belt at TSA or into an overhead.
 
Roger Roger said:
I’m afraid I’m going to mess up my shoulder or elbow one of these days hoisting the thing onto the belt at TSA or into an overhead.
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Also, I often walk a mile plus dragging the thing between home and the JNU airport (not the crashpad anymore, unfortunately they moved so it’s no longer walkable from the airtrain) It’s not as if I don’t need the extra calorie burn from dragging a 97 lb suitcase, but again, it’s a weird stress on the ol arm joints and back that doesn’t go over as well pushing 40 as it did at 25. Idk, I’ll still use the thing until it explodes, I’ll just bitch about it the whole time
 
🦈💜 said:
Ok, but ... why is lighter better? I prefer heavier. As far as the frame warping ... *shrug* I dunno. None of that stuff bothers me. If it broke, or didn't function properly, or didn't hold enough, or wasn't reliable or robust, or user-serviceable... that'd be different. I think I have zero original screws ... third set of wheels, but it's still going strong.
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I held onto mine for a bit after flying heavy freighters but lugging the LW up two flights of icey stairs gets old quick. That and also I dropped my LW off at the HQ in Arkansas for a refit and the new zippers lasted 6 months. The quality just isn't there anymore. Splurged for the Briggs & Riley and it's been flawless. I've had to replace the wheels once in 8 years and that's it.
 
Roger Roger said:
I don’t think that’s really still a thing since airlines started charging for checked bags. The vast majority of the time they’re soliciting gate checks because they anticipate running out of overhead bin space.
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About 10 years ago I watched as the ramp crew brought my gate checked LW back into the cabin on a CommuteAir Dash-8, and try to stuff it and a bunch of other smaller bags into the overhead to either get back into CG or just make weight, been so long I don't remember which.
 
Boris Badenov said:
It's a really nice bag.

Or so I'm told.
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That's the problem with free company issued bags. They all look the same. I heard so many horror stories of someone taking the wrong bag I put an orange ribbon on my handle. Still, there were so many times I'd be wandering around the luggage storage rack looking for my bag in a sleepy stupor at 3am. People, imagine a three layered metal shelf system about 120 feet long, unmarked in any way, and everyone throws there matching bags on there to store them during the sort.
 
arkflyr said:
About 10 years ago I watched as the ramp crew brought my gate checked LW back into the cabin on a CommuteAir Dash-8, and try to stuff it and a bunch of other smaller bags into the overhead to either get back into CG or just make weight, been so long I don't remember which.
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I was going to say, that was definitely a thing on the Dash 8 at CommutAir, usually for weight. The Dash 8's overhead bins were big enough many roll-aboard suitcases could fit. On the EMB-145 we had a "no carry on policy" so that practice went away.
 
I like the lighter bags because it’s easier loading it into an overhead and especially if you travel a lot internationally.

With the Luggageworks, what, some underwear, a toothbrush and some minimal basics and you’re pushing up against that overweight fee and most of the weight is just… bag.

Bags are like airplanes. We’ve all got a Cessna 150. Do you want that heavy-assed repurposed L1011 fully articulating seat and about 5 gallons of 100LL before maxing out or the airplane equivalent of a deck chair, 20 gallons of 100LL and even bring a buddy along? :)
 
Roger Roger said:
Also, I often walk a mile plus dragging the thing between home and the JNU airport (not the crashpad anymore, unfortunately they moved so it’s no longer walkable from the airtrain) It’s not as if I don’t need the extra calorie burn from dragging a 97 lb suitcase, but again, it’s a weird stress on the ol arm joints and back that doesn’t go over as well pushing 40 as it did at 25. Idk, I’ll still use the thing until it explodes, I’ll just bitch about it the whole time
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That’s kind of what we do here.
 
Autothrust Blue said:
That's how I have two StrongBags rollers, I ordered a new covering and they were out of stock of just that part so they sent me a whole new bag. Pretty cool tbh.
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I like my Strongbags, even with the telescoping handle it's only had a wheel replacement in the last 5 years and that was pretty easily done by me. The LW I couldn't figure out how to get the rusted wheels off. My only complain is the weird double back pocket, you can't really shove the hat back there for commuting like you can with the LW, so you end up having to tote it around like a goober.
 
arkflyr said:
About 10 years ago I watched as the ramp crew brought my gate checked LW back into the cabin on a CommuteAir Dash-8, and try to stuff it and a bunch of other smaller bags into the overhead to either get back into CG or just make weight, been so long I don't remember which.
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Hiboglossi said:
I was going to say, that was definitely a thing on the Dash 8 at CommutAir, usually for weight. The Dash 8's overhead bins were big enough many roll-aboard suitcases could fit. On the EMB-145 we had a "no carry on policy" so that practice went away.
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Fair enough, I’m mostly on guppies with the occasional E-Jet. How many -8s and -145s are even still in service at US airlines?
 
JordanD said:
I like my Strongbags, even with the telescoping handle it's only had a wheel replacement in the last 5 years and that was pretty easily done by me. The LW I couldn't figure out how to get the rusted wheels off. My only complain is the weird double back pocket, you can't really shove the hat back there for commuting like you can with the LW, so you end up having to tote it around like a goober.
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I have one of these. When it isn't holding my hat, it holds my soft-shell jacket.
 
Autothrust Blue said:
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I have one of these. When it isn't holding my hat, it holds my soft-*
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"Does not fit military hats"
*shows picture of military hat*
 
Roger Roger said:
Fair enough, I’m mostly on guppies with the occasional E-Jet. How many -8s and -145s are even still in service at US airlines?
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Looks like 8 Dash 8s and well over 100 EMB-145s. However as I said above, that trick wasn't used on EMB-145 at any point when I flew it, as we had a "no carry-on policy"; meaning full-sized carry-ons were forbidden in the cabin and had to be gate checked, allowing our standard passenger weights to be lower. Not sure if other EMB-145 operators have the same policy and at any rate its overhead bins are small enough that only relatively small bags can fit anyway.

I do wonder if the bringing valet checked bags into the cabin trick might be used on the CRJ. I haven't seen it used any time I've ridden a CRJ that I recall. The trick isn't really relevant to mainline aircraft where, as you mention, overhead bin space is a hot commodity; it's used on regional jets and turboprops where planeside/ valet checking standard size roll-aboards is the "default".
 
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