'This makes zero sense': Woman's plane travel luggage hack baffles her family

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
May 10, 2023 5:00 PM EDT

I thought I'd heard every travel hack, until I read this one, that is. I can truly say I've never thought about treating my luggage the way this woman plans to. 

Airports are quite strict with their luggage requirements. If you don't look it up before you go, you'll be stuck with a suitcase that's too big or too heavy, meaning you'll have to cough up some cash to fly your precious belongings along with you. And heaven forbid you have liquids that are more than 3.4 ounces, or have a carry on that can't fit under your seat! 

People have been coming up with clever travel hacks for years. You can try wearing all or most of your clothes in order to save on luggage fees, and all you have to do is wear layers upon layers of clothing as you sweatily waddle through airport terminals. Or lately, people have been shoving pillows under their shirts to try and sneak those onto the plane…but some get caught, and then they're stuck paying for their extra luggage. What a headache. This woman's plan is well intended but just so baffling, so scroll down to make sure you don't do what she's got planned. 

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    Font - Kevina doesn't understand travel M Kevina is a mother of two and are taking a trip this month to Universal Studios in Florida. This is a school trip that her youngest kid (15) is going on, Kevina and older sister are chaperones.
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    Font - Kevina explained to our mother that their checked luggage is not going onto the airplane, instead, going onto a truck and will be there when they arrive. Mom asks "When do you put your bags onto the truck?"
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    Font - My sister, Kevina, said "The morning of the trip." Mom: "Seriously?" Kevina: "Yeah." Mom: "So, by the time your bags arrive you will be ready to go home. This makes zero sense."
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    Font - Kevina: "No. They will arrive before we get there." Mom: "You are saying that the semi truck will arrive in Orlando before you and your kids do, traveling by air." Kevina: "Flying isn't that much faster." Kevina turns 43 on Sunday. Edit: The trip is to Florida and Kevina lives in Oklahoma.
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    Font - Patch_Ferntree I'm have a strong suspicion that Kevina has seen or been told that the checked luggage is put on the airport luggage transport vehicle and wrongly concluded that it travels to the destination that way and not realised that the vehicle takes the luggage out to the plane to be loaded.
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    Font - Binder_of_chains OP While this would make some sense...no.
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    Font - Kevina hasn't been on an airplane since she was 3. In addition, she doesn't have the curiosity to wonder how things work. So how a checked bag gets into an airplane is as magical as the physics of how that airplane flies in Kevina's mind. Any attempt to explain to her how the bag gets into the plane would be met with "I don't fing care".
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    Font - The reality is, for reasons I can't explain, the bags are going by semi. Only she didn't know that they had to be loaded like three days in advance.
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    Font - I wish I was going on this trip. Not because I want to go to Florida, but because I want to see her navigate without the help of a smarter person in a place she has never been before. I travel for work. In the area that I live as well as occasionally flying to different states. GPS makes my life so much easier, but I can use MAPSCO, I have before.
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    Font - Kevina has never traveled to a new place without GPS or someone to guide her. I have never seen her use a map. The fact that she is with a school group doesn't mean that this trip won't end with her missing the flight and having to make her return trip on a bus.
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    Font - Years ago she visited me in the apartment complex I lived in. I told her "Once through the gate, take the first left, then the next left and next right and my building is at the end of the road, in the northwest corner, next to the jr high school (that we both attended 20 years prior). She ended up in the south west corner saying that she never saw a left turn. She was also not wearing her glasses, so I was amazed she even got toy apartment complex.
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    Font - Logical-Appeal-9734. Sounds like she has three brain cells left and they're all fighting for second.
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    Font - O Malikissa I mean, where is the origin city? I've flown from Indianapolis to Asheville, NC, and in the amount of time it takes me to get to the airport, go through security, get to my gate, wait to board/take off, land at my connecting airport, do all that bulls all over again, and then finally set foot in Asheville, it would have been faster for me to drive. While, yes, the "flight" is much shorter than the drive, but there is a LOT of additional time and bulls to fly. needed
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    Font - Binder_of_chains OP She is in the middle of Oklahoma.
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