I’m a Briggs & Riley fan, my usual carry on is their Baseline CX bag. They’ve made a splash over the past month with a new bag, and I’ve arranged a giveaway.
As I explained last week, I have two different Briggs & Riley bags to give away (different bags for different reasons, they’ve “got your business and leisure covered” as it were).
Last week I gave away the hot new TORQ bag.
Of course Briggs & Riley is all about functional luggage, as much as I like the look of the new bags their bread and butter is the business market epitomized by their @work line.
Which of course comes with Briggs & Riley’s unrivaled lifetime guarantee.
Here’s how you can enter to win by commenting on this post. Given the strength of reputation for their guarantee, Answer the following question in the comments:
- Do you worry something is going to happen to your luggage?
Here are the rules:
- You need to answer the above question in your comment to this blog to be entered.
- You may enter up to once per day — and I give you a bit of slack in this, I won’t disqualify any entry as long as you don’t make more than one entry per calendar day or as long as no entry is closer than 24 hours together from another one. And if you’re close, we’re cool. I’m not looking to disqualify people, just to make sure there’s no massive ballot stuffing.
- All entries (comments) must be received no later than Thursday, June 13 at Noon Eastern time.
- I will draw a winner at random in the days following the close of the contest from those that meet these guidelines. Make sure you provide a valid e-mail address when entering to be eligible to win (you do not need to leave an email address in the comments, but along with your name where it asks for your email that email must be ‘real’ or I will have no way of contacting you).
- The winner acknowledges that this is a prize and is not for resale.
- I’m the final arbiter in all matters related to this contest and in all matters of interpretation. There is no appeal. I’m doing this because there’s an opportunity to send out a pretty cool high-end bag, and not taking anything in return, so please don’t give me a hard time in the process.
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Yes, I do worry, but that is mainly a fear because of my current lack of status to always carry on!
I always worry that checked luggage will miss connections.
Having had my luggage lost by an airline, I anxious every time I go to the carousel and don’t immediately locate my baggage coming out!
I am worry as I have luggage being lost before being recovered. However, there is not much I can do as I usually travel internationally for a long trip and required check-in my bags.
Having had airlines lose bags while overseas, and once seeing a bag split open on the carousel, yes, I worry. Alot.
I always worry about my luggage, especially after last week when I witnessed the gate checked bags getting thrown off the plane and rolling off the ramp to the tarmac! So much for the poor fool’s laptop bag.
I do worry, after I was left high and dry when a wheel on an old Dakota bag bit it.
Do you worry something is going to happen to your luggage?
Every time I check it! Even though 95+% of the time it ends up fine, I’ve lost a handful of bags to belts / handlers / extreme environments over the years, so that’s never pleasant.
The folks at the Briggs repair facility always come through on airline damage. But lately its the TSA approved locks that come up missing. Come on you guys at TSA, where is that standard key?
Yes, I worry if it would make all the international connection and come out of the carousel at my destination.
I worry about checked bags only when I am going places that don’t have good places to replace contents. The one time I had a bag lost, I resented the time to shop for new clothes.
I don’t worry about my checked luggage, almost always carry-on.
I worry that my bag’s wheels will wear down and they will cost a fortune to replace and are not covered by warranty.
I worry my gate-checked luggage will be left on the tarmac.
Of course I worried about my luggage getting lost, my luggage getting damaged, and stuff actually stolen from it.
I worry every time I check my bag about something happening to it. On my latest trip this weekend, the side was all stained. WTF United??
Yes — between the TSA and the airline, something can be stolen and each one will do nothing to help beyond pointing the finger at the other.
I do worry when I gate check my bag that something may get damaged but I take out insurance for that
I worry that my luggage will end up in the hands of an overzealous TSA agent and be lost in government bureaucracy.
Pretty much I always worry.
Although it usually goes through just fine, I have had my bags tossed somewhere on a flight(s) from Florida to Paris, France.
My wife has had her bags take different flights than she does, luckily this has always been on the home trip, so it’s just a mild inconvenience.
Living in an apartment, my next door neighbor took frequent flights. The airlines were always dropping her stuff off for me to handle (how the luggage got there before she got back from the airport was always a riddle…).
I only worry when I check a bag which I try hard to never do.
I only worry on the outbound, where losing or damaging the luggage would impact the trip. On the way back, I am far less concerned.
I usually worry that something will happen but have been lucky so far. Though I would rather have a good, well constructed piece of luggage that seething happens to that a piece of junk that I didn’t care about
I travel with my husband and pack some of his clothes in my case and some of mine in his, in case one of them gets lost. That is my big worry; our cases get battered but not destroyed (yet).
I do. I try not to check luggage because I already had a bad experience with a brand new bag, which was damaged on a Ryanair flight.
Yes. I worry that my checked luggage (almost never check) will get lost, and I worry that my expanded carry-on luggage will not fit in the bin.
Worry when it lost in transition
Sure … always a releif when checked bags emerge on the baggage carousel undamaged and on time
Yes, I worry the luggage may either arrive late or get lost in transit. Thanks.
i don’t worry about my luggage as much as i should. i’ve been lucky so far, i guess.
I always worry something will happen to my luggage, especially when checking it in. I’ve had suitcases which TSA has opened forcefully and managed to break the locks on (And no, I don’t trust TSA/aiport handlers or anyone else not to go rifling/stealing through an unlocked suitcase, so I always lock it!)!!
I don’t worry, there is no since to worry over things you have no control over.
I definitely always worry, which is why I try to only travel with a carry-on and purse. Checking bags makes me very nervous.
I worry about my bags getting misdirected/lost on interline connections–I generally don’t worry about online itineraries.
I never check in bags…even with Southwest or airlines where my first bag is free due to status/having their credit card.
I would definitely enjoy the comfort of not having a huge backpack underneath the seat in front of me, but the fear of losing my checked-in bag outweighs that.
Yes, I always worry about my luggage. Especially the cheaper luggage I tend to wind up with seems to break quite frequently!
When I travel, I try NEVER to worry. But, to make sure my problems are minimized if my luggage gets lost, I always keep at least 2 days supplies in my carry on. If my carry on gets lost, I’m in deep do-do.
I always worry if my bags will make my connection. 35 minutes may be a legal layover in Detroit, but my bags never seem to make it also.
yes i do. and so i always have a change of clothes and meds in a carry on. but further than this i dont worry, i actually dont mind, when i am prepared, to not get my luggage on time because then i can go shopping which is sponsored by the airline. my last trip, to the middle east, they lost my bags for 3 days and so i went shopping and got a lot of nice new things and got reimbursed for all fo them. sweet!
Thanks!
I try not to worry, but I guess if I had really cheap luggage, I would worry that the strap would break off or it would rip open. I also would worry about checked baggage being lost, but I don’t check luggage unless forced to.
I should probably worry more than I do. But I tend not to even think about it.
I do worry about my luggage. Mostly about how it will be damaged, as various companies managed to create some amazing types of tears on my luggage before and my current checked luggage is a 4-wheel suitcase that I am afraid will one day become 3-wheel.
I worry it won’t arrive on a tight connection.
Depends on whether I have any electronics in it. I always note that if an airline truly lost my luggage and can’t find it, they would compensate me. I hope this continues because it means a new wardrobe 🙂
I always worry something will happen to my luggage, wrong plane, theft, completely ruined bag….
I carry most of must haves in my carry on like most people, that way I try to NOT worry about my luggage. BTW – still have the B&R bag my dad gave me as part of my wedding gift back in 1998. Now we have more family members, so need more luggage 🙂
Not really, I always pack light and carry on if possible. Even then I put it across the aisle from me so I can keep a close eye on it.
I worry about connecting flights.
I constantly worry about any checked bag, which is why I try to avoid checking (well, that and the fees). I’m not so much worried my bag will be lost as I am that it will be destroyed by the baggage handlers. I’ve seen some of the most inexplicable damage in the baggage claim area which has lead me to believe they are using hooks and box cutters to move the bags.
Yes I am, the worst feeling is not having your luggage and your clothes when you arrive at your destination