Thread 2828672

>walking off the plane and out of the airport without having to wait for your luggage
vs
>having to deal with overhead storage and maneuvering your luggage through the aisle
Choose your fighter

>>2828672 (OP)
You mean this thread? >>2822079

>>2828750
we need at least 5 of these threads

>>2828672 (OP)
>having to deal with overhead storage and maneuvering your luggage through the aisle
Sorry you're a manlent and weak who can't simply lift the bag up.

>>2828672 (OP)
never understood this. I always just check in my duffel bag. Can easily store 2 weeks of cloths to make laundry easier + a lot of other shit. Good ones have backpack straps so once you get it you can toss it onto your back and be on your way. Sure it can get heavy but once on your back it's actually not bad and surely you're not a retard to walk from the airport to your hotel right?

>>2828801
Yeah but then you have to get on a train with a bag, you look like a beta taking up space on the bus or train; and locals hate you for it. Rolling it down the street makes so much noise you know everyone is staring at you hating your guts as the wheels make noise. I stopped carry on once I went to Japan and people I heard giggling around me or across the street laughing or saying something loud, you knew they were just laughing at a silly foreigner with too much luggage.

One Bag Chads, don't have to worry about this. Join the club and grow up.

>>2828808
carrying a small duffle bag with some clothes and shoes in it is trivial

>>2828761
>can't wait 10 minutes for a bag
Sorry your bladder's the size of a peanut.

>>2828761
>Honeygirl needs her hairdryer and cosmetics UwU.
You go girl, you got to look fiiiiiiine on vacay! Mm hmm

>Choose your fighter
Carry-on if I am going somewhere for <1 month
Checked if I am going somewhere for >1 month
Keep it to a simple system

I'll also do checked if I plan to bring back any booze or souvenirs with me since putting it in checked is easier and free with my airline status.

Pic of my bag rn. Travelling almost a year with this now. Will never go back to check-in luggage backpack. I hitchhike a lot so I like something I can just grab and go and also light enough if I feel like walking a few miles to the next town. Love the freedom. A man should be comfortable with a spartan existence

>>2828672 (OP)
1. don't be poor
2. fly business class and get priority luggage handling
3. your luggage gets to the carousel right when you do

>>2828912
>3. your luggage gets to the carousel right when you do
this happens for me even on southwest...

>>2828946
that happens with international flights since you have to go through passport control first

>>2828672 (OP)
I normally do carry-on even when it's the same price as checked because I'm a chronic over packer and can't be trusted with the size of a full suitcase and also I usually travel to places that are at most a 4 hour flight away so the additional time of having to come early to check bags and wait for them later significantly increases travel time. Also a full sized suitcase makes it much more likely I take cabs which I try to avoid. Once you're getting in 6+ flight hours territory or staying some place for 5+ days do I start to go checked.

>>2828808
It's you one-pack assholes with the oversized backpacks who carelessly bump people around you when you're in a crowd. You're the reason why the Istanbul metro has signs telling people not to wear their backpacks on the train.
>>2828946
When the arrival terminal is separate from the main airport terminal, luggage can take 30+ minutes to arrive at the baggage carousel.
>>2828867
You don't travel with a laptop, I take it.
Food and water often take up a big chunk of space in my luggage. Especially when walking around on foot in a hot climate, I never want to be without water.
>>2828801
Duffel bags are the ideal choice for a poorfag traveler. They're super cheap, spacious, durable and not worth stealing.

>>2828987
>You don't travel with a laptop, I take it.
There's a small laptop in there
>Food and water often take up a big chunk of space in my luggage. Especially when walking around on foot in a hot climate, I never want to be without water.
If I'm drinking water I have it in my hand. Why do you need snacks in your bag, fatty?

>>2829016
You're pudgier than I am, guaranteed.
I never take taxis, tuktuks, rideshares, etc. If I have to walk 5 km in 35 C heat to get to my hotel after wrapping up a 4 hour train ride in a sweltering carriage, I'm sure as hell not gonna do it dehydrated and hungry. There's gonna be 2 liters of water in my pack every time I set out, and some homemade market snacks as well for those ten hour van rides through the middle of nowhere.

>>2829234
Ok. Well you're an over-prepared dork. Bottled water is the most readily available resource in any country. If you're getting off a train and walking to your destination, you don't need 2 liters of water and a bag of chips in your bag ffs. If you want water, just buy it and walk with it in your hand. What use is it in your bag anyway.
>homemade market snacks as well for those ten hour van rides through the middle of nowhere
Yeah. I can buy them too. I buy them before I travel and get in the van carrying them in the plastic bag they were put in. Why do you need to put them in your massive luggage and then take them out.
To me, this is about being a man. I was in the army, maybe that contributes to how I weight save and minimalize. But men should learn to live with less, live harder, Spartan lives and make peace and comfort with them. This is an innate charater value we have as men, after millennia of war making. Especially white men.
You're simply not asking yourself
>How can I travel with less? How can I be lighter?
It's not about saving money, it's about gaining freedom. Not trying to emasculate you but this is a man issue.

Let me introduce you to THE bag
>look like a military fag from the US so can board early to US airplanes if you play your cards right
>make up some shit like you were in the service get free drinks and the better airline staff flirty with you
>good way to ensure if your traveling and fuck up you can just point to the bag and throw on a shitty southern accent and get away with anything whilst making sure your country isn't to blame
>some girls in countries it's a huge positive can use it as a huge flex
>no foreigners will fuck with you ever, the scammers in thailand won't bother with pickpocketing you whilst on holiday
>even if you hate the US the quality is still usually good and no one in a hostel is going to touch it less they see big bubba's BBC up their arse
>stores all you need

Checking luggage is for women and children, if you one bag you know how to travel.

>slim down to smaller bag
>fits in overhead just fine
>this flight makes me weigh it and it's over some bullshit weight limit
>have to pay to check it anyway
Yeah ok. Fat people don't have to pay extra with their weight but here I am slim and trim getting robbed for 30 USD because my bag is a few pounds over weight. Fuck off.

>>2829323
If it doesn't go on your back, it loses massive portability points. Being light and mobile is the whole point of carry-on luggage. You over-thought aesthetics here.

>>2829324
It's the budget airlines in White countries that are always cunts about weight and size.
I've had around 40 flights so far this year including connections and my carry-on is about 10kg. Never had to pay extra. Whenever available I check-in online (another advantage of carry-on only) and that skips one point where my bag may be weighed.

>>2829325
Just pretend to be american and demand service industry staff carry it for you and brag about tips. It works if you fake it till you make it, besides if it doesn't just go "'m american and this is how we do it back home in texas!"

>>2829329
I feel like walking 3 or 4 miles sometimes. If I'm hitchhiking and I don't have much further to go, or the scenery is beautiful. Walking with that thing bouncing off and rubbing on my leg for an hour. No thanks. Nobody would buy that if they thought it through. Looks good though.

>>2829324
>>2829326
I travel a lot for business, mostly Delta but sometimes Southwest/Jetblue because they're the only direct flights, and have never had my carryon weighed. Or at least not since e-checkin and qr code boarding passes became a thing

>>2828863
It doesn't take ten minutes, you're forgetting the 30 minute line you waited in at your departure airport to check the bag too. Carryon let's you go straight to security instead of wasting your time waiting in line to print your baggage tag from a kiosk and then waiting in line to drop it off.

>>2829515
It takes 1 minute if you pay the Skypcap 10 bucks.
>I'm a cheapskate
Too bad.

>>2829515
No wait at all or 2 minutes at most when you can use the priority lane.

>>2828672 (OP)
if you can skip the checked baggage process, you should. always
problem is this requires you traveling light, most people can't do it

>>2829515
>It doesn't take ten minutes, you're forgetting the 30 minute line you waited in at your departure airport to check the bag too.
Lmao look at this NPC brain who doesn't use the self service check in counters.

>>2830604
checked baggage process is easy. you just show up, drop off the bag, they tag it, and you're on your way

>>2830663
can't use self-service when they mark you as a terrorist sadpepe

>>2828672 (OP)

>able to be hands free from the moment I enter the security line, through the entire flight, to the time I collect my bag after customs on arrival
>can bring liquids arriving/coming home
>don't look like a begpacker

Yes, I always check a bag unless all I need is a small backpack for a very short trip. You guys are really worried about maybe 10-15 minutes on average longer on arrival to wait for your bag? Is your trip really ruined by this, when you've saved so much stress by not needing to min/max your packing, can bring more of what you want, don't need to burden yourself on the airplane itself, don't need to fight over overhead space, etc.

When you become an adult you'll understand

you can't bring back a samurai sword in a carry-on

>>2830663
>>2830665
Every single time I've ever used the self service kiosk I've still had to wait in line to show my ID to an agent, they don't let you dump off the bag and walk away once it's tagged.

>>2830866
this
don't know what utopia those guys are from where you can just drop off a bag with no waiting in line or ID verification lol

>>2830892
it takes 5 minutes to tag your shit, go to the clerk, and drop it off

>>2830866
Do you not check in online before getting to the airport? 9 times out of 10 it's because I didn't do that. The other times that happen it's expected because I used a different airline in some hell hole-ish country like PH or somewhere else in SEA that didn't provide the airlines with proof of continued travel.

>>2828672 (OP)
I’ve done both.

I used to go on a lot of really short business trips to Asia, during which I used a carry-on suit/garment bag that rolled up (sort of like pic related) and an overstuffed laptop bag, but I eventually found that I like not having to carry a lot of bulky luggage on my person/through airports more than I mind waiting for a checked bag. And the garment bag was awkward and not quite roomy enough for a trip longer than three or four days. So nowadays I am more likely to check a bag unless I’m just going away for a weekend or something.

>>2831184
Duhh, pic now actually related

>>2830918
best case scenario maybe... worst case scenario is like 45 minutes+

>>2828672 (OP)
Check one carry one. Carry-on should have one day's stuff and the stuff you can't effectively travel without just in case checked baggage gets lost

>>2831762
Thanks for the most turbo normie method that exists. Real gem of a contribution

>>2831762
I put that in my personal item (backpack)