It's been worrisome to me ever since I got my B&R 29" upright for major overseas jaunts. It was immediately replaced by B&R with a 28" and I actually had a choice at the time. I foolishly thought, why pay more and get a smaller case? Well, comes time to actually measure the thing and it's definitely over 62" overall. Fortunately I fly business or first-class overseas and so far no one's measured it--since I'm nowhere near my luggage allotment overall. But, sometimes I have to connect to smaller flights and steerage class so it's one more issue on my mind. And I notice that B&R has now replaced its 28" models with 27"
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