Best Hand luggage for Business Traveller?

Hi,

Just recently started a new job which will require a about 10 flights
a year.

Please could someone recommend a quality piece of luggage for someone
who needs to take a laptop and a change of clothes onto the flight
rather than checking in?

As this will be a frequently used item, I am prepared to pay for a
very good quality model (it needs to look smart enough if I want it do
double as a briefcase). It doesn't necessarily have to have wheels but
I would like something that will more or less guarantee that I can get
onto the flight without being asked to check it in.

Any personal recommendations would be most welcome.

Thanks in advance,

Alex

<alexrpeters@m> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> Just recently started a new job which will require a about 10 flights
> a year.
>
> Please could someone recommend a quality piece of luggage for someone
> who needs to take a laptop and a change of clothes onto the flight
> rather than checking in?
>
> As this will be a frequently used item, I am prepared to pay for a
> very good quality model (it needs to look smart enough if I want it do
> double as a briefcase). It doesn't necessarily have to have wheels but
> I would like something that will more or less guarantee that I can get
> onto the flight without being asked to check it in.
>
> Any personal recommendations would be most welcome.

Go to Bombay.

Go to the leather market in Daravi.

Wander around the several hundred shops selling leather goods and find what
you want.

It took me about four hours...

Everybody speaks English, everyone takes plastic, everyone is really
helpful.

You'll save about £300...

--
William Black


I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Barbeques on fire by the chalets past the castle headland
I watched the gift shops glitter in the darkness off the Newborough gate
All these moments will be lost in time, like icecream on the beach
Time for tea.

On May 21, 9:44 am, alexrpet...@m wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Just recently started a new job which will require a about 10 flights
> a year.
>
> Please could someone recommend a quality piece of luggage for someone
> who needs to take a laptop and a change of clothes onto the flight
> rather than checking in?
>
> As this will be a frequently used item, I am prepared to pay for a
> very good quality model (it needs to look smart enough if I want it do
> double as a briefcase). It doesn't necessarily have to have wheels but
> I would like something that will more or less guarantee that I can get
> onto the flight without being asked to check it in.
>
> Any personal recommendations would be most welcome.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Alex


Tumi. I am still looking for one if and when my Wenger Metro Roller
spills its gut out.

William Black <william.black@.uk> wrote:

: Go to Bombay. Go to the leather market in Daravi.
: Wander around the several hundred shops selling leather goods and find what
: you want. It took me about four hours...
:
: Everybody speaks English, everyone takes plastic, everyone is really
: helpful.
:
: You'll save about £300...

Good advice, I'll try to remember that.

The only thing I'd ask OP to remember is that while leather looks nice,
it does not stand up to water/dirt as well as modern materials like
ballistic nylon do. Have both. :)

Yaofeng and PTravel:

I know Tumi is a great brand. However, many people have said to me that
Briggs and Riley gives you the same quality at around 60% price. Do you
have any experience with that brand?

Please note that I don't mean luggage that is cheaper but also lower
quality, eg, Samsonite. What people have emphasized to me is that B&R
is same quality as Tumi.

"Ajanta" <ajanta@null.void> wrote in message
news:210520071704359267%ajanta@null.void...
> Yaofeng and PTravel:
>
> I know Tumi is a great brand. However, many people have said to me that
> Briggs and Riley gives you the same quality at around 60% price. Do you
> have any experience with that brand?
>
> Please note that I don't mean luggage that is cheaper but also lower
> quality, eg, Samsonite. What people have emphasized to me is that B&R
> is same quality as Tumi.

My personal experience is that aircraft and airports are hard on baggage.

Get something reasonable that doesn't cost too much and replace it now and
again.

My own bag is a shoulder bag but my wife's is a copy of a pilots case, but
on wheels, that just fits in the standard 'carry on' frame.

I like small leather cases as they can be used as large brief-cases as well
as travel bags.

Buying expensive luggage for air travel is, in my opinion, a waste of
money.

--
William Black


I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Barbeques on fire by the chalets past the castle headland
I watched the gift shops glitter in the darkness off the Newborough gate
All these moments will be lost in time, like icecream on the beach
Time for tea.

On May 22, 4:31 am, "William Black" <william.bl...@.uk>
wrote:
> "Ajanta" <aja...@null.void> wrote in message
>
> news:210520071704359267%ajanta@null.void...
>
> > Yaofeng and PTravel:
>
> > I know Tumi is a great brand. However, many people have said to me that
> > Briggs and Riley gives you the same quality at around 60% price. Do you
> > have any experience with that brand?
>
> > Please note that I don't mean luggage that is cheaper but also lower
> > quality, eg, Samsonite. What people have emphasized to me is that B&R
> > is same quality as Tumi.
>
> My personal experience is that aircraft and airports are hard on baggage.
>
> Get something reasonable that doesn't cost too much and replace it now and
> again.
>
[snip]

I go back and forth on this. I was a hard side kinda guy for
years.
The stuff lasted a good long time. Usually _I_ wore it out before the
airlines did. But they are enforcing the weight limits so tightly,
especially over seas, I can't see starting with a bag weight 12 lbs
empty. So I've started to use "soft side" stuff. The airlines flat
tear that stuff up. And the real bummer is that about the time
I've found a nice piece I like, the airline tears it up and then I
found out they don't sell that style anymore.

But are we not talking about *hand* luggage? How can the airlines
damage it? It stays with you.

On May 21, 3:44 pm, alexrpet...@m wrote:

> Just recently started a new job which will require a about 10 flights
> a year.
>
> Please could someone recommend a quality piece of luggage for someone
> who needs to take a laptop and a change of clothes onto the flight
> rather than checking in?

I use a Karrimor 35-litre rucksack, which is IATA-size in length and
depth but narrow enough to fit the luggage bins on Fokker 50s, which
avoids the gate-check hassle. This is ideal for my purposes of twice-
weekly business flying, though I don't need to dress formally (I work
in the Netherlands where in most companies jeans are acceptable
business attire!) so I have a bit of an advantage there.

It cost me about 40 quid I think.

Neil

me wrote:

> On May 22, 4:31 am, "William Black" <william.bl...@.uk>
> wrote:
>
>>"Ajanta" <aja...@null.void> wrote in message
>>
>>news:210520071704359267%ajanta@null.void...
>>
>>
>>>Yaofeng and PTravel:
>>
>>>I know Tumi is a great brand. However, many people have said to me that
>>>Briggs and Riley gives you the same quality at around 60% price. Do you
>>>have any experience with that brand?
>>
>>>Please note that I don't mean luggage that is cheaper but also lower
>>>quality, eg, Samsonite. What people have emphasized to me is that B&R
>>>is same quality as Tumi.
>>
>>My personal experience is that aircraft and airports are hard on baggage.
>>
>>Get something reasonable that doesn't cost too much and replace it now and
>>again.
>>
>
> [snip]
>
> I go back and forth on this. I was a hard side kinda guy for
> years.
> The stuff lasted a good long time. Usually _I_ wore it out before the
> airlines did. But they are enforcing the weight limits so tightly,
> especially over seas, I can't see starting with a bag weight 12 lbs
> empty. So I've started to use "soft side" stuff. The airlines flat
> tear that stuff up. And the real bummer is that about the time
> I've found a nice piece I like, the airline tears it up and then I
> found out they don't sell that style anymore.
>
>

The airline rarely gets much chance to tear up my hand baggage.

Soft baggage simply fits into the often odd spaces better.