Baggage dilemma - fix or retire

[leadman]

Sadly after my last trip, I thought my trusty Samsonite Aeris had seen its last cargo hold, and it was time to retire to that "lost baggage section" in the air. Coming off the carousel, the handle all but fell off and was quite embarrassing pushing through customs. But after the tear-down of the handle, a few bolts and glue, and the handiwork of the Dremel, it might now make the million-mile club. So I did some numbers on it;
Purchased; 15th June 2015
Where; Dubai
O/S Trips; 49
Int Trips; 53
km done; 1.44 million
equ miles; ~900,000
Check-ins; 295
countries; 47

I'm confident I will hit the million miles, but "old man" leadman reckons I'll be embarrassed on the next trip.

 

[Forg]

Kinda impressed you've kept track of the distance it's travelled.

Looks munted to me, but the core of the bag is prolly fine for longer than all the external handles etc. May depend on what you're willing to put up with as to how much longer it lasts ...

 

[leadman]

Recording trips was something we had to do back in my corporate days in the 1980's. We had a bit of a scandal where some senior managers were booking trips but not taking them and getting the credit back into their accounts. So us plebs had to record our trips along with the boarding passes and all dockets recording the trip. Just a habit I've kept for 40-odd years.

 

[TiredOldFlyer]

How could you possibly retire such an Icon !
I would be a little concerned about all the bar codes - if it ever went astray maybe an other 100,000 miles before
you get it back.
I use tripit so that's where my flights are recorded.

 

[leadman]

It had a lot more barcodes and has never been lost. It has missed about 3 connections as being too tight, but not lost, touch wood. Ironically other bags have disappeared so my theory is they take more care with this one!

 

[TiredOldFlyer]

Samsonite do have a 10 year warranty

 

[Steady]

Samsonite do have a 10 year warranty

I was about to post the same, they will send out a replacement handle


@leadman have a look here

 

[albatross710]

I always remove my barcodes after each flight. I'm wonder if all those little scanners have to do extra processing until they find a valid barcode and then they know how to process your bag. If the scanner can only find one barcode, it knows on the first pass.

But that being said, the scanners probably just recognise your bag by sight as they have seen it so many times. (that's a lol)