With the latches, suitcase alignment and making sure everything is stuffed in fully prior to closing and latching becomes more critical than with the zipper close luggage. But with the latch luggage, once it’s closed, it’s more securely closed than the zipper suitcases. With latch luggage, I am more often kneeing the suitcase to close it than zipper luggage, but that’s probably more an issue of dimensional differences when closed or of the trip nature than of there being a real problem with latch luggage.

The latch luggage does seem to fit in a little less luggage than the zipper ones and pose some more challenge with shoes or bulky cloth items (such as a coat) at times, but even then I prefer the latch system to zipper system for Rimowa bags.