Many times over the last few years, I've arrived with my family at an airport abroad for our main summer holiday and there have been no baggage trolleys or some other restriction. For example, BGI has no baggage trolleys, only porters. At GIB, our hire car was a very short walk across the border in Spain, and GIB won't let its trolleys go out of the airport, let alone into another country. A number of European airports have had no trolleys available airside when we arrived because of bad management. Not only that, but there is a growing trend at UK airports to charge for baggage trolleys, although this hasn't fortunately spread yet to the likes of LHR and LGW. As we usually fly business or first and make use of our additional baggage allowance, we usually have more baggage than we can physically carry, so the lack of baggage trolleys causes quite a problem.

To work around this, does anyone have any ingenious methods to pull along more baggage than one could normally carry? I'm thinking of something like joining together the baggage so it can be pulled along as a kind of long baggage train. We mainly have large 4-wheel Samonsite suitcases and 2-wheel Samonsite regulation-size cabin baggage.

From the skymall...Train Reaction. Never used it...just saw it in the catalog.

I use an extension strap to attach my carry on case to my larger suitcase, then I can wheel 2 x large suitcases with 2 x carry on attached easily, and I also have a soft carry on bag that has its own web strap that slides over the suitcase extendable handle.

There's a thread on the Train Reaction Device here

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/trave...on-device.html

That is just a few day old, but it does have some feedback.

I always plan on not having a cart available, if there is one standing there I'll use it, but otherwise I plan on stacking the bags or something, and bring bags I can do that with.

Where it's possible, I'll run out and see if there is a cart at the taxi line or parking lot before going to luggage claim, if flights came in just before, there's usually one unless the guys are picking them up in quickly.

There are some fairly serious portable carts out there that can be folded up, you see people like musicians and trade show people using them, they run in the area of $100 to $200, can fold down, and they can hold 200 to 300 lbs lbs, occasionally you see them strapped to a suitcase coming down the ramp.