Best Luggage for business travel

[schmalex]

Neither. I'm responsible for export sales for the company I work for and much of our non-UK business is in Latin America and the Middle East, so I spend a lot of time travelling

[Avidfanofstuff]

I've found M&S luggage to be very hard wearing and reasonably priced. Probably not up there with Tumi etc but I can't fault it.

[brickwall]

schmalex said:

Completely disagree. Unfortunately, this'll look like I'm willy waving, but I typically do 100k+ miles a year. So far this year, since January, I've done just over 40k miles on both long and short haul andI've got a pretty intensive few weeks coming up that will put me on just over 70k miles By the end of April, so I'm no stranger to frequent travelling!! My wife also travels about 30k miles a year and we are still on our 5 year old Antler cases for both carry on and hold luggage and they've got plenty of life left in them. I agree it's worth buying a decent brand over something from BagsRus but there is absolutely no reason to pay £600+ for a wheely bag.

Edited by schmalex on Sunday 20th March 20:39

I'm completely with you. My lightweight Samsonite did 100k miles last year, and has zero faults.

[Painthead]

brickwall said:

schmalex said:

Completely disagree. Unfortunately, this'll look like I'm willy waving, but I typically do 100k+ miles a year. So far this year, since January, I've done just over 40k miles on both long and short haul andI've got a pretty intensive few weeks coming up that will put me on just over 70k miles By the end of April, so I'm no stranger to frequent travelling!! My wife also travels about 30k miles a year and we are still on our 5 year old Antler cases for both carry on and hold luggage and they've got plenty of life left in them. I agree it's worth buying a decent brand over something from BagsRus but there is absolutely no reason to pay £600+ for a wheely bag.

Edited by schmalex on Sunday 20th March 20:39

I'm completely with you. My lightweight Samsonite did 100k miles last year, and has zero faults.

Interestingly Samsonite has just bought Tumi....whose revenues have been falling so high end isn't winning in the market place. I'm a Briggs and Riley fan myself - "lifetime guarantee no matter what the airlines do to it" and a fraction of the cost of Tumi.

But I guess it comes down to the type of travel you are doing....if you are long haul and probably in business class and able to put everything in the overheads yourself then bags can be not so tough. If you're on low cost airlines and having to put stuff in the hold all the time it's a different story.

And yep sounded like some willy waving :-)

[AstonZagato]

I kept killing carry-on rollers (I fly most weeks on business). The last one died in the security queue at Heathrow. I went through and bought a Tumi and got the shop to throw my old one away. I thought the price was ridiculous but I have now probably racked up 10 years with the Tumi. It just won't die. It looks a but shabby by it still does what I need it to do.

Would I buy Tumi again? Not sure. They are stupidly priced. It has lasted 5x longer than anything else I've owned but was 5x the price.

I now need a slightly smaller spinner (Squeezyjet size - my firm has gone budget on me and the old Tumi is sometimes rejected at the gate).

[Painthead]

AstonZagato said:

I kept killing carry-on rollers (I fly most weeks on business). The last one died in the security queue at Heathrow. I went through and bought a Tumi and got the shop to throw my old one away. I thought the price was ridiculous but I have now probably racked up 10 years with the Tumi. It just won't die. It looks a but shabby by it still does what I need it to do.

Would I buy Tumi again? Not sure. They are stupidly priced. It has lasted 5x longer than anything else I've owned but was 5x the price.

I now need a slightly smaller spinner (Squeezyjet size - my firm has gone budget on me and the old Tumi is sometimes rejected at the gate).

Same situation - though I bought a Briggs and Riley at Heathrow 8 or 9 years ago and it's still going strong. I have 2 of the things now depending on which airline i'm on and how long I'm going for. A small Airfungus, Squeezyjet size for the couple of nights and then a next size up for the away all week jobs and especially long haul on sensible sized planes. Laptop bag sits on handles of both equally well and never have a problem fitting them into the respective airline "bag gauges" All in including laptop bag probably only paid what a single Tumi costs.

[Blown2CV]

schmalex said:

Neither. I'm responsible for export sales for the company I work for and much of our non-UK business is in Latin America and the Middle East, so I spend a lot of time travelling

gotcha. Drugs or arms?

[Bowside]

boxedin said:

TravelPro.

http://www.travelpro.co.uk

Mine is 15 years old and still going strong. They were originally, not sure about now, designed by a Pilot so the cases come with lots of useful pockets, in logical places and lots of other well thought out locations of zippers, toiletry hangers, elastic straps etc.

Huge recommendation from me for TravelPro bought one 8 years ago and still going strong and looks like new. Bought some new ones from the 10 range recently and they are fabulous too with some updates design tweaks.
Buy them at an outlet in the US though as they'll be much cheaper

[schmalex]

Blown2CV said:

schmalex said:

Neither. I'm responsible for export sales for the company I work for and much of our non-UK business is in Latin America and the Middle East, so I spend a lot of time travelling

gotcha. Drugs or arms?

one of those

Edited by schmalex on Tuesday 22 March 21:09

[TheGuru]

toohuge said:

Our next set of luggage will be Rimowa - it's a little heavier than the others but very well made a good warranty. - Oh and stupidly expensive.

And made for stupid people who like brand names. Their polycarbonate ranges are no better than any other brand, in fact they are quite weak, especially on the corners. Very over-priced.

Their aluminium range, very expensive and the trouble with them is that they often get out of shape and need to be realigned. Baggage handlers do not treat them kindly.

Very popular in Asia, as most expensive brands are and the quality disappeared a long time ago.