“Next week, AirTran Airways and American Airlines will join Northwest, Delta, US Airways, United and Continental in requiring passengers to pay a fee if they can’t cram all their clothes, shoes, books, and hairdryers into one bag to check.”
How to Pack Everything You Own in One Bag
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“If it’s not on your list, it shouldn’t be in your bag,” Dyment tells NPR’s Michele Norris. “What happens with people is that they pack before their trip, and that packing activity consists mostly of talking to yourself and saying, ‘Well I might need this and I might need that and what if the queen invites me to dinner?’ And that’s death to light packing.”
That’s me all right, though I did have just one bag (plus a carry-on backpack) for my recent week-long trip to Virginia.
Great, just in time for my move to Japan via aeroplane.