Even if you’ve travelled only a few times, you know how pivotal packing is!
Forget an essential item and you’re left disappointed and scrambling to find the nearest store in your destination.
Pack too much and you end up being burdened with heavy bags and losing money to pay for pricey airline baggage fees.
To help you pack effectively for your next flight, here are 10 fundamental packing strategies that every traveller should know.
1.Make A Packing List
This is the most basic tip of packing!
Most of us usually procrastinate until the last day to pack for a trip which may cause us to forget a few important items.
Start your packing process days or even weeks ahead of your departure date by making a packing list. This will help you purchase any additional items you might need for your vacation.
Creating a packing list is a fail-safe way to ensure that you never, ever forget to bring something important.
2.Know Your Airline’s Baggage-Fee Policy
Figuring out your airline’s tricky baggage-fee policy is the key to stress-free packing!
Most airlines allow you to carry one piece of hand baggage and two pieces of check-in luggage for free, however, you still need to know the airline’s weight limit levied on luggage.
Before you begin packing, take a peek at your airline’s website and read its baggage policy.
This is something you might even want to do prior to buying your plane ticket. It will help you create a rough idea of what you can or cannot carry and will help you make your packing list.
3.Use Your Personal Item Wisely
It’s standard for airlines to permit each traveller to bring one carry-on bag and one personal item onboard planes.
This personal item is subject to specific size requirements (these vary by airline), but something like a purse, laptop bag, or backpack is generally acceptable.
So rather than bringing just a small purse, you can carry a bigger carry bag, enabling you to pack more.
4.Don’t Fold Your Clothes, Roll Them
Many travel experts including backpackers, who stuff months’ worth of clothing into small bags, agree that rolling is superior to folding.
Tightly rolled clothes take up less space than folded ones. Plus, they’re less prone to getting deep wrinkles from fold creases.
Plus the benefit of this is you won’t have to arrive at your holiday destination and be faced with a pile of clothes that need ironing.
5.Pack In Layers
“Wear Layers & Pack Layers”! This is the golden rule that most frequent flyers follow.
First, your on-the-road wardrobe should feature plenty of layers, which will help you jet set through multiple climates in style and comfort.
Second, the items in your bag should be packed in neat layers for easy screening. You can pack 1 layer of clothes, 1 layer of electronics, 1 layer of shoes and so on. This will help the security agent screen your bag easily and give him/her a clearer picture.
The faster the security agent can screen your stuff, the faster you’ll get through the security line.
6. Never Keep Essential Items In check-In Luggage
It’s very important to keep your valuable and essential belongings in your carry-on bag, not in your checked luggage.
Your passport, identification, money, credit cards, jewellery, electronics, and other valuables should always be brought onto the airplane with you.
7.Fill Dead Spaces
When it comes to packing, make use of every little inch of suitcase space that you can.
Roll tops, underwear, socks and other small items and stuff them into your shoes to make sure every possible space is filled.
Just make sure that you keep the airline’s baggage weight limit in mind, cause you can end up packing more than you need with this hack.
8.Use Zip Lock Bags
How do you usually organise all of your electronics, cables, those fiddly things that take you ages to dig out at security? Stuff them like the rest of Us?
Well, if you want to organise your packing then get yourself a stash of Zip lock bags.
Use them to store electrical items like a phone charger, camera charger, adaptors or headphones, household items like house keys, medication and other loose accessories.
9.Make Your Suitcase Unique
With air travel on the rise, companies such as VIP and American Tourister are mass producing their bags, which makes it difficult for us to have a unique suitcase.
Don’t be faced with a crisis at the airport baggage carousel, when you’re searching for your luggage amidst its identical neighbours.
Label your suitcase with luggage tags and give it a bit of a makeover to help spot it in the crowd. Decorate it with ribbons, stickers or even colourful shoelaces so it’s instantly recognisable.
10.Buy A Lightweight Suitcase
A suitcase is easily one of the most essential travel items that you can own. After all, you rely on it to pack all the things you love.
Juggling between gifts for the family and airline Baggage Allowance can be a tough task. And that is exactly why lightweight luggage is so essential.
They are spacious, mobile, give less strain to your body and helps you save on baggage fees by being lightweight.
Read more about “Why You Should Carry A Lightweight Suitcase The Next Time You Fly”
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