Breeze Through with FlyBags

02/24/09  Print This Post Print This Post    1 Comment   Popular   Written by Lola Akinmade
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We’ve all done it.

That last minute repacking we do at the airport security checkpoint – combing through carry-ons for every gel, gloss, liquid, and powdery substance you can find, and trying to force fit them into a free plastic bag.

Well, FlyBags are the latest in travel kits and are designed to meet TSA 3-1-1 Requirements (i.e. 3-oz bottles in clear bags, etc).

In addition to getting the nod of approval from TSA, they are actually super sturdy and excellent for organizing those grooming essentials and toiletries while traveling.

FlyBags are free of Azo dyes and pigments, making them safer for the environment, and each bag comes with three 2.5 ounce refillable bottles for your liquids, an eye mask, and earplugs.

What’s even cooler than their ultra-chic design are the color options: “blue bomb,” “pink scissors,” and “gray dagger“. How’s that for tongue-in-cheek humor?!

So, if you want to make your TSA experience a breeze or you just like collecting cool looking, travel organizing kits, the FlyBag’s for you!

Price: $16.00 | BUY


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Lola Akinmade is the editor of Matador Goods. Read her articles, view her photography, and follow her travels at http://www.lolaakinmade.com

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  • HazardousDavis replied on February 26, 2009

    Haha, how much did they pay you to review their product then? Granted, having one of these bags may prove to reduce time, but the time gained from it achieves what? A little longer in the departure gate, or more time to re-pack your wash-bag that set off the search-alarm? Having my liquids taken off me very recently at Bangkok airport will undoubtedly make this a biased response, however, I think there are some interesting things to point out about towards the above … The FlyBag is capitalising on our misfortune and to some extent our (uncompromisable) control. You could say 'Well done' on the fact that someone's making money off of this idea, but you can also say that isn't the 'FlyBag' just another gutless submission to a set of laws in place that really don't need to be there? For those of you who have looked in to the majorly flawed sector of airport 'Security', you will hopefully have concluded yourself that such a set of rules being put in place is not really an effort towards increasing 'Security' but one to increase control upon the average person. What really results when they say you can't take these small substances on board with you? Well, more often than not, you will end up having to buy more make-up on the other side, or a bottle of water once you get through the checks. In all, you spend more money, the situation eludes you to believe you are wasting valuable time (and in such a 'pressured' atmosphere as an airport, this is effective on most people) and so in order to never go through such an ordeal ever again, you don't address the ridiculous set of rules on the chin, but instead, take the easy route, buy the smaller amounts etc, or even better, get yourself a fashionable 'fly Bag' in a grey that matches the colour of your slowly-sedated sense of acceptance. Not really a Rant, but I think as travelers, NOT asking ourselves the questions of the underlying matters in situations like these, is only going to see our priceless travel experiences become more and more diluted as we are forced, ever so slowly, to take the food off of the spoon, with products such as these…

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