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Old Apr 2, 2026 | 8:25 am
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Originally Posted by libove
I have searched (pun semi-intended) and I failed to find information about this.
I've been trying to search the forums for "tumi" and "boarding bag" (That's the name of an actual Tumi product). It finds lots (and lots) of threads/posts, none of which seem to actually contain the exact phrase "boarding bag".
I also tried +"tumi" +"boarding bag" (same large set of not-actually-matches results), and also +tumi +boarding+bag (no space between boarding and the + and the bag), which interestinly returned a much reduced set of results .. still none of which contained "boarding bag".
How to search for an "exact phrase" in the Flyertalk forums?
thank you,
I highlighted in bold what I would have expected to work -- question, how are you accessing the search interface? Mobile or desktop, and which exact method?

In full desktop mode if I use the Search dropdown menu at the top (in between New Posts and Quick Links) then Search => Advanced Search



(the capital B is unimportant, I just didn't release the shift key fast enough after typing the quotation mark)

this produces only 8 results (one of which is yours and my post will probably show up at some point, not entirely sure how the forum software does its search indexing but it does not seem to be 100% realtime), which though they all do seem to mention "tumi" and "boarding bag" they aren't necessarily referring to that specific product, and also the most recent is 2019 (and most are even older than that).
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