Show your favorite UA amenity kit bag
I really wish airlines would put a little more thought into creating amenity kit bags that have more usefulness after the flight. So many bags just end up in the trash, or a junk drawer, or just left on the plane and presumably trashed. Over the years, and hundreds of amenity kits, I can only recall a few that I've kept and used regularly, among them a Braun Buffel one from LH first that's my regular toiletries kit now, a shoe bag from AA, a shoe bag from UA, and my favorite, a simple mesh bag from UA biz that I now use for the gazillion cables one must now travel with (there was a similar one from ANA too). The simple mesh bag is so useful that on a couple of flights in GF, I asked for it instead of the GF one.
What's your favorite amenity kit bag that you still use? https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...de5dfebd79.jpg |
Agree with the usefulness of the mesh bag. One in my backpack right now. Wondering whether there will be a useful container on my NRT flight later today or just more landfill material.
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Originally Posted by gadfly
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Agree with the usefulness of the mesh bag. One in my backpack right now. Wondering whether there will be a useful container on my NRT flight later today or just more landfill material.
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+1 -- I still use the mesh bags for cords and things when I travel. I use some ANA and Asiana bags for things as well, and the 747 tins are great knickknack holders., but that's it.
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+1 for the UA mesh zip bags we still heavily use the drawstring ones too - zero weight and space toiletry bags. Both feature the tulip too which never ceases to spark joy (KonMari) The tins go recycling asap |
I have more mesh zip bags than I count, used for spare phones, headphones, WD portable hard drives, check book, etc..... with some unused spare ones in case anything happens to any of these. Also the light tan biz bag, used for camera battery charger and adapters, and an old gray real leather United F bag that I can't bear to use for anything!
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I have a PS amenity kit that came in a square case that zipped on three sides, like an old fashioned CD binder. That case still travels with me on every flight, with the UA amentities plus a few I added, like Advil. It’s perfect because it closes tightly, protects the contents, is reusable, but also compresses (the metal tins don’t) |
Without question, the United mesh bag of Biz Class in the early 2010’s is the most useful and used amenity bag that I have. I am currently in-flight on UA 1460 EWR-LAX, and I have in my Rimowa Salsa computer case not 1, not 2, but 3 of those mesh bags which are holding cables of all kinds, a flat mouse, iPhone chargers, cigarette adapter chargers, a checkbook, even a spare iPhone! Of topic, but I also have a prized Rimowa amenity kit from Lufthansa First that houses my Braun shaver, a comb, and nail filers. All the other United amenity bags and tins are useless, even the latest blue sloping zippered bags, although these do have potential :D |
The only amenity bags I regularly use are Lufthansa First Class bags from many years ago. I always found it interesting that they have (or at least had) a "male" version and a "female" version.
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Sadly no mesh bags for me, but these two versions I still use regularly for all sorts of things (1st one is the current J version):
https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...07732664d0.jpg https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...696b0261fe.jpg |
Love the mesh!
Originally Posted by gadfly
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Agree with the usefulness of the mesh bag. One in my backpack right now. Wondering whether there will be a useful container on my NRT flight later today or just more landfill material.
I wish they would bring those back! So handy |
Originally Posted by narvik
(Post 30864358)
Sadly no mesh bags for me, but these two versions I still use regularly for all sorts of things (1st one is the current J version):
https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...07732664d0.jpg Loved the leather BF and even larger GF kits: https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...8d2d3806c9.jpg Global First leather kit significantly larger. https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...1e323c8ee1.jpg Lots of pockets and mesh for storage inside. |
Originally Posted by onthesam
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That clamshell design is awful, IMO. Useless.
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I fly with one of the half-size brown leather ones from p.s. J a number of years back. It's classy, durable, and I only carry a couple of eyemasks and earplugs, plus whatever originally came in it.
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Originally Posted by mahasamatman
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The only amenity bags I regularly use are Lufthansa First Class bags from many years ago. I always found it interesting that they have (or at least had) a "male" version and a "female" version.
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