DYKWIA - The 2017 thread
Jul 12, 2017, 10:52 am
#661
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: JER
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Rimowa? As a BAEC Gold, am I required to spend insane amounts of money on luggage to retain a small semblance of credibility? Or am I permitted to continue using Antler/Samsonite, on the premise that it will be bashed/broken/lost anyway ... regardless of cost?
We have always regarded luggage as 'disposable items', along with their contents. It tends to minimise stress.
We have always regarded luggage as 'disposable items', along with their contents. It tends to minimise stress.
Jul 12, 2017, 11:38 am
#662
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Bristol
Programs: BA GGL, UA Plat, DL Plat, Hilton Diamond
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American Tourister, 35 quid from Tescos, why pay more
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Jul 12, 2017, 12:00 pm
#663
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Mar 2010
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Madam's carry-on is of that ilk, although probably $15 in Marshalls in the USA
Jul 12, 2017, 12:20 pm
#665
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Flatland
Programs: AA Lifetime Gold 1MM, BA Gold, UA Peon
Posts: 6,111
Jul 12, 2017, 12:20 pm
#666
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Gloucestershire
Programs: BA Gold (ex-GGL, maybe future Silver), Hilton Diamond
Posts: 6,199
Going way off topic but I like the pockets, OK?
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00GDCT3...767431_TE_dp_1
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00GDCT3...767431_TE_dp_1
Jul 12, 2017, 12:21 pm
#667
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Seattle, Wash. USA
Posts: 1,531
If you've ever tried to figure out the street addresses in some parts of London, this is an understandable response upon boarding an aircraft. As I recall, the street numbers in Rathbone Place (for example) march down one side of the street and then turn around and head back the other side.
Jul 12, 2017, 12:36 pm
#668
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: living near Malaga
Programs: BA Gold , Mucci recipient. Coffee Drinker, Blue Sky Thinker
Posts: 2,111
Going way off topic but I like the pockets, OK https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00GDCT3...767431_TE_dp_1
Jul 12, 2017, 1:13 pm
#669
Join Date: Jul 2015
Location: Offshore Island
Programs: BAEC Silver
Posts: 308
I too don't spend a lot of money on suitcases and prefer to use it to buy more important things, like wine.
Jul 12, 2017, 2:06 pm
#671
Join Date: Nov 2016
Location: London, Hong Kong
Programs: OZ*G, LA/Emerald, StarbucksHK Lifetime Gold
Posts: 50
Jul 13, 2017, 2:23 am
#672
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Ealing
Programs: Usual Amex Cent. GGL.
Posts: 1,484
Jul 13, 2017, 2:39 am
#673
Ambassador, British Airways Executive Club, easyJet and Ryanair
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: UK/Las Vegas
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Jul 13, 2017, 2:58 am
#674
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Ealing
Programs: Usual Amex Cent. GGL.
Posts: 1,484
I like to think that the handlers at LHR view B&R as a challenge
Jul 13, 2017, 2:58 am
#675
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: Brexile in ADB
Programs: BA, TK, HHonours, Le Club, Best Western Rewards
Posts: 7,067
Rimowa? As a BAEC Gold, am I required to spend insane amounts of money on luggage to retain a small semblance of credibility? Or am I permitted to continue using Antler/Samsonite, on the premise that it will be bashed/broken/lost anyway ... regardless of cost?
We have always regarded luggage as 'disposable items', along with their contents. It tends to minimise stress.
We have always regarded luggage as 'disposable items', along with their contents. It tends to minimise stress.
Warren Buffet who is as I recall the third or fourth richest man in the world only ever buys second hand cars which to me seems very sensible. Spend your money on what's important to you, only the vacuous worry about being seen with what they think is the "right" items.