I bought two matching suitcases both with TSA002 locks, this post does not particularly relate to the brand, but they were Totto which is a Colombian luggage brand that has outlets all over S America and Spain. I bought them for the warranty options.

Anyway, whenever I buy new luggage I set the combination to whatever is the first plane I take them on. So 767 was my combination for both cases.

Sunday I checked into Bogotá and after a long schlep via Madrid I was reunited with my cases at Brussels.

One of the cases had been unlocked, the zips that click into the lock were hanging freely but more unusually, the combination had been changed and I could not lock it again. In that case I had a couple of pound bags of coffee and 4 canisters of chocolate covered coffee beans. I have had security open my cases before for similar items because well, they look like a couple of bags cocaine to an X-ray machine. Nothing was missing from the bag.

I completely understand airport security might want to unlock a case and we have TSA locks so that they can do so without ruining the case or its locks, but has anyone else found that they have got their suitcase back with the combination changed?

I looked on YouTube to see how to change it again, there were a few videos suggesting it could be done quite simply but wasn't working for me. So given the case has a 3 digit combination I figured would not take me long to try them all. Starting at zero and working upwards, the case opened when I hit 451.