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The range

How the range is built

A range is a set of decisions about what not to make. Here are ours.

The sections

We split 139 pieces into 6 sections by what the thing is for rather than by what it is made of. A cabin shell and a cabin soft-side sit together because they answer the same question. The frame cases get their own section because the closure changes how you use them, not just how they look.

The sections as they stand, counted from this catalogue.
SectionPiecesMeasuredClear 22 x 14 x 9
Carry-On Luggage39322
Top-Opening and Frame Cases16124
Checked Luggage and Sets27150
Compact and Underseat171211
Backpacks1296
Duffels, Bags and Organizers282013

Colourways

Most cases exist in several colours and each colour is its own page here, because that is how the retail listings are organised and sending you to the wrong colour is worse than an extra click. Colours that share a shell share their owner ratings, which is why a run of the same case in four colours shows the same number next to each. In the lists we pick one colour per case so a shortlist is four different cases rather than four photographs of one.

Measurements

The size on the label is the shell. The measurement on our pages is the whole case standing on the floor with the handle down: wheels, feet, housings, bumpers. Those two numbers are never the same and the second one is the one a gate sizer cares about. We have the full measured box for 100 of the 139 pieces here, and the cabin checker only ever works from those.

What we leave out

Nothing on these pages is invented to fill a gap. If we do not have a measured weight for a case, the weight line is missing rather than estimated. If a case has no owner ratings yet, no rating appears. The notes in the logbook are about how we build and pack, not about products we have never handled.