Even the most experienced traveler would be hard-pressed to limit their destination wedding or honeymoon luggage to a carryon. In fact, you’re likely to have several large bags filled with everything from DIY details to full-sized beauty products. Checking luggage can be a nuisance, not to mention expensive, so thankfully there are companies like Luggage Forward. The service picks up your luggage from your home, ships it ahead to your final destination and even completes all necessary customs forms for you (they deliver to 200+ countries). Pricing varies depending on bag size (not weight), the number of bags, how far it’s going and how fast you want it delivered. luggageforward.com
Wouldn’t it be easy to arrive at your destination without having to lug all that hefty baggage around? There are new delivery services like Luggage Forward that transport gear to more than 200 countries and territories worldwide. It allows them to walk through the airport with no excess luggage or baggage.
With the recent run of UK events, we know from players making the trip that no matter how famous you are or how obvious it is that you are a professional golfer, the airlines just aren't great with golf clubs these days. Especially flying internationally.
Just in the last few weeks, I give you Brittany Lincicome, Stacy Lewis and Graham DeLaet, among others. Oh, and then there was what DeLaet's clubs looked like when he opened his travel bag.
For the return journey, Luggage Forward picked up my clubs late at my last lodging locale late on a Thursday. After I had made a leisurely trip to the airport without lugging the clubs, I returned home and by the following Monday afternoon the clubs were here. In between I got email updates on their location. Everything was in perfect order. when they arrived.
Aaron Kirley and Zeke Adkins, Luggage Forward co-founders.
Claim to fame: Skipping the luggage carousel
After spending a fair amount of time schlepping bags through airports, Aaron Kirley and Zeke Adkins set out to form a company that ensures bags arrive at the destination at the same time as travelers — by mailing them.
Why not just check the bags?
Luggage Forward offers a reliable and cost-effective door-to-door luggage delivery service that saves time, excess baggage fees and customs hassles.
Naturally, the founders — who met in high school — say the idea sprang from their own unfortunate experiences lugging bags through airports.
Travelers can ship luggage and sports gear (bikes, skis, snowboards, golf clubs) to more than 200 countries and territories worldwide using Luggage Forward.
Zeke Adkins and Aaron Kirley, Luggage Forward
Claim to fame: Skipping the luggage carousel
After spending a fair amount of time schlepping bags through airports, Aaron Kirley and Zeke Adkins set out to form a company that ensures bags arrive at the destination at the same time as travelers -- by mailing them.
Why not just check the bags?
Luggage Forward offers a reliable and cost-effective door-to-door luggage delivery service that saves time, excess baggage fees and customs hassles.
Naturally, the founders -- who met in high school -- say the idea sprang from their own unfortunate experiences lugging bags through airports.
Travelers can ship luggage and sports gear (bikes, skis, snowboards, golf clubs) to more than 200 countries and territories worldwide using Luggage Forward.
Your bags shouldn't be baggage — Getting yourself from Point A to Point B while you duck summer storms is difficult and draining enough. Don't magnify the problems by checking luggage, which will only slow you down and might not fly with you as you pick your way through the detritus of summer schedules. Fly only with carry-ons whenever possible. If you must pack a load, ship it instead. Third-parties such as Luggage Forward and commercial shippers such as FedEx or UPS aren't cheap, but they are more reliable than airlines.
Well, please remember it because tighter luggage standards are coming. Mark my words. Every time an airline adds a new row of seats, we move one step closer. It may even get to the point where sending luggage by express mail makes more sense. There are services that already let you do that, like Luggage Forward and Luggage Free, but they're pricey.
Fortunately, Luggage Forward had picked up my golf clubs from my house in South Carolina earlier in the week and they were now waiting for me in my hotel. The company specializes in sending luggage ahead of travelers, allowing them to avoid extra cost at the airport and the hassle of lost baggage. The weekend included 54 holes of golf between rounds at Yale University Golf Club and Winged Foot. Removing the large variable of traveling with clubs made the short 2 day trip exponentially more enjoyable.
Gone are the days when you arrived 20 minutes before your flight is scheduled to leave; quickly check your luggage and hop on your plane.
Just checking your bags has become a major project. Who would have ever guessed that your luggage would develop into an entity of it own that provides a major source of income for the airlines? This is regardless if the price of your ticket produces a great deal of capital for them, or not.
I find it noteworthy that this one decision by the airlines has created a financial windfall for Federal Express and UPS. In addition it has spawn companies such as Luggage Forward and Sports Express.
These companies were formed out of the desire to find a less costly way to transport our ‘stuff’, during a trip. The exasperating part of this matter is that this one change has increased the bottom line of the airlines by the millions of dollars while costing the traveler additional money.
