Comments on: Travelers Are Using Pillow Cases To Outsmart Airline Carry-On Limits https://viewfromthewing.com/travelers-are-using-pillow-cases-to-outsmart-airline-carry-on-limits/ Thought Leader in Travel Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:27:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.2 By: Alert https://viewfromthewing.com/travelers-are-using-pillow-cases-to-outsmart-airline-carry-on-limits/comment-page-1/#comment-5666277 Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:27:36 +0000 https://viewfromthewing.com/?p=199499#comment-5666277 @jns … +1 .

]]> By: jns https://viewfromthewing.com/travelers-are-using-pillow-cases-to-outsmart-airline-carry-on-limits/comment-page-1/#comment-5666251 Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:14:58 +0000 https://viewfromthewing.com/?p=199499#comment-5666251 Using clothes in a bag for a pillow is an old backpacker hack to be more comfortable at camp. The resulting pillow is less compressible than the ones onboard and thus is more useable. I use the pillow in the location of my lower back to lessen backaches. I should be doing this.

]]> By: Patti https://viewfromthewing.com/travelers-are-using-pillow-cases-to-outsmart-airline-carry-on-limits/comment-page-1/#comment-5666196 Tue, 30 Jan 2024 23:33:16 +0000 https://viewfromthewing.com/?p=199499#comment-5666196 Lol, used to travel wearing a photographer vest. Amazing what you could stuff into one of those.

I still remember the look on the faces of the screeners in Zimbabwe when I walked up, unzipped it and laid it on the scanner, then put it back on after.

Crazy American! But it worked. Especially in countries who did weigh carry on but never gave my vest a 2nd look.

]]> By: David R. Miller https://viewfromthewing.com/travelers-are-using-pillow-cases-to-outsmart-airline-carry-on-limits/comment-page-1/#comment-5666137 Tue, 30 Jan 2024 22:47:41 +0000 https://viewfromthewing.com/?p=199499#comment-5666137 Johhny – and I am sure that your “status” was acquired with you purchasing overpriced tickets over a long period of time. You have paid for your smugly stated “status”…..

]]> By: Johhny https://viewfromthewing.com/travelers-are-using-pillow-cases-to-outsmart-airline-carry-on-limits/comment-page-1/#comment-5666127 Tue, 30 Jan 2024 22:42:28 +0000 https://viewfromthewing.com/?p=199499#comment-5666127 As a flyer with status I love the subsidy provided by baggage fees.

]]> By: David R. Miller https://viewfromthewing.com/travelers-are-using-pillow-cases-to-outsmart-airline-carry-on-limits/comment-page-1/#comment-5666101 Tue, 30 Jan 2024 22:28:16 +0000 https://viewfromthewing.com/?p=199499#comment-5666101 None of these “tactics” would be needed or used if the airlines quit with their asinine bag fees. Southwest allows 2 free checked bags. The other airlines rake in millions with their bag fees and continue to find more ways to squeeze money out of passengers for things that used to be included in the price of a ticket. I say, “more power” to anyone who can find ways to avoid these rip off fees. I have my own, but I am not stupid enough to post what I do because the airline “bean counters” read postings such as the ones posted here and elsewhere.

]]> By: tom https://viewfromthewing.com/travelers-are-using-pillow-cases-to-outsmart-airline-carry-on-limits/comment-page-1/#comment-5666094 Tue, 30 Jan 2024 22:24:45 +0000 https://viewfromthewing.com/?p=199499#comment-5666094 Ha, I look forward to someone trying this on Ryanair or some other ULCC only to be told to either put the pillow into their personal item where it will not fit, or else check the pillow (and all its contents)

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