Excess-Baggage Charges are a Thing of the Past
This is another great example of original and out-of-the box thinking. In the past we’ve covered several solutions to traveling light and compact. This article, however, is about traveling heavy – but without paying excess-baggage charges. Read on to find out how the Jaktogo helps you to fool low-cost airlines.
Why It’s Clever
Fierce competition between airlines forces them to reduce fares year after year. But you know how it works: The basic fare is reduced, but at the same time everything except your chair is magically converted into a paying option. Europe-based Ryanair even plans to charge you to go to the toilet during a flight. A more common and well-known example are the baggage weight restrictions that most low-cost, but also regular, airlines have put in place. If you want to take anything more than clean underwear, you may face baggage charges of tens of dollars.
But what is baggage? Is a suitcase baggage? Sure it is, what else would it be? Is a coat baggage? No, of course not. A handbag? Most of the time it isn’t. A laptop? If you carry either a handbag or a laptop, it might be OK. If you carry both, you’ll have to use your charm at the check-in desk – that is, if you have the luxury of dealing with a live person instead of a touch screen.
Anyway, those excess-baggage charges are now a thing of the past. A clever guy has designed a clever bag (that could be qualified as baggage) that converts into a coat (no baggage!) just out of sight of the check-in people. It has enough pockets to stuff it with about 33 lbs or 15 kg of things you think you can’t do without, and it even has a pocket that can hold your laptop. So next time take yourself to the check-in desk with your excess baggage and with a big smile on your face. Admittedly, in the middle of summer you’ll be sweating like a horse and looking like an idiot 
, but they won’t be taking that $50 from you, will they? And once you’ve past all the checkpoints, it converts back to a bag, allowing you to let your sweat dry.
Today’s lesson: Only losers pay excess-baggage charges. Smart people get themselves a Jaktogo.
See it put to work in the commercial:
Summary
- Bag converts into a coat and back again
- Holds up to 33 lbs (15 kg)
- Special pocket holds a laptop
- Avoids excess-baggage charges.
Tips
The check-in staff will probably get wise to this trick and try to persuade you to weigh or check in your coat. Don’t give in! A coat is a coat, and as long as their terms and conditions don’t say how much a coat can weigh, you shouldn’t accept paying surcharges for this.
If you’d rather travel light, you might like these “25+ tips to travel light and compact.” or some other clever travel products & tips.
Where to buy
You can buy the Jaktogo from the Jaktogo.com website.
Approx. price: €80 (approx. $100)
Categories: space-saving, simply original, travel, money saving
