Giveaway: Air-Porter Makes Toting Luggage Easy
January 11, 2009 by Mary Jo Manzanares
Filed under Home & Living
If you’re loaded down with luggage, juggling a car seat, multiple bags, sporting equipment, laptop case, and a briefcase, you’ve no doubt dropped a few items. Probably dropped many items, many times.
The Air-Porter allows you to keep all those items from shifting about, getting your from your car to check in, and even to the departure gate, using one hand for your bags and keeping the other hand free.
This system of bungee straps is adjustable and fits on any roller suit case, whether it’s a large checked bag or a small carry on. Starting with your largest bag, you put on the adjustable Air-Porter to piggy-back items on that largest bag. It’s designed to keep stacked items stable, and to distribute the weight so that it’s easy to roll. The straps are lightweight, so once you’ve finished using them, they’ll easily toss in your carry on bag for use at the other end of your journey.
And perhaps best of all, you don’t have to be an engineer to figure out how to use the Air-Porter. It’s just a series of four buckles that are easily clasped.
This is perfect for parents traveling with a car seat along with other bags. You can take everything you need in one hand, and have your child’s hand in the other.
You can order the Air-Porter online for $75. Additional bungees are $10.
We are giving away an Air-Porter to a Travel Product Guide reader.
All you need to do to enter is to leave a comment here on the blog answering this question:
How would the Air-Porter come in handy for you?
You will be automatically entered into the giveaway drawing with your comment. One random winner will be selected to receive the Air-Porter.
The contest runs through Friday, January 16th, 2009 at 11:59pm PT. Please only enter once and leave your email address in the appropriate spot so that we can contact you.
A very big thanks to the folks at Air-Porter for generously providing this giveaway to a reader.
Image credit: Air-Porter
great idea! Especially for someone with kids!
i usually travel to india alone. now i’ve a 15 month baby who will accompany me. i hate to carry any bags with baby but … I would love to have it.
I could use this to tote my laptop on top of a nice roller, keeping one hand free to check my email.
Now if they’d only make something that could turn my thoughts into text, I’d be in heaven
This would be great for family adventures!
When I’m pulling my luggage through the airport and back and forth the the car, my bags are contantly falling over; my carryon bag flops around on the handle of my roll-around bag. The Air Porter would allow me to attach my bags and finally be able to carry my laptop too without dropping bags all around me.
The Air-Porter would come in handy for me because I sometimes travel with animals and I have quite a load. Thanks for the giveaway!
I could really use this when I travel with my kids. Juggling kids and luggage can be a nightmare.
This would save my shoulders from a lot of wear and tear.
I’m a little old lady who travels alone. I try to pack lite but always end up with extras falling everywhere while I run for a bus. THis sure would be handy.
What a great invention! If I had this when I was a flight attendant, my arms would be shorter!!
I’m a weakling so this would save me from lugging big heavy bags.
I travel a lot by bus and always am having to juggle my bags.
I am a KLUTZ. This looks to be a great remedy! Would love to have this gizmo.
Traveling with kids would be so much easier with this product. I like it a lot.
This would make my life easier, that’s the bottom line. No more insane juggling at the airport.
When I travel for work, I usually have about 4 different bags of different sizes and functions. This would make transporting them SOOOO much easier.
Since arthritis limits my capabilities now, this would be the ideal thing to use. I have been paying curbside porters to do everything for me. I’d love to have this awesome product!
I usually have kids, a wheelchair and other things to handle- this would be a blessing instead of hanging them all over my neck and worrying about that or a putdown bag by one of the kiddos
My last trip was awful. We had so much luggage and trying to lug it around hurt. This would make traveling so much easier.
What a brilliant invention! With our 4 1/2 year old daughter and my husband’s business items he must bring on trips we have our hands full. We look like bumbling fools in the airport when we drop something, pick it up while dropping something else over and over again!
this would be like having a personal assistant, which I know I could use at the airport. I always have my hands full and something ends up falling. This would prevent me from losing something important. This would make an ideal gift for all the travelers on my list. I like to start thinking of Xmas early!
Great item for a small and old woman who can’t handle a lot of heavy luggage.
Boy oh boy do we really need this!
oh yes, handy for us. Trying to travel abroad this past summer with a baby, car seat, stroller, diaper bag, and our carry ons — we were a sight. Could have used this!
I could really use one of thes as I’m planning on travelling to the UK this year on my own with my 2 yr old!
This is a handy prize, kudos to the inventor. I am short in stature and I am always struggling with my luggage especially if I’m going for longer than 3 days. Between laptop and luggage, purse its a handful. I really need something like this. Thanks so very much for the giveaway with a nice helpful prize.
THIS WOULD BE GREAT ESPECIALLY WHEN MY GRANDKIDS SPEND THE NIGHT.
this would help me as i just moved across the country and each time i go home to visit, i try to bring as much stuff from home as i can back with me – needless to say it’s difficult walking around the airport and getting home!
My 16 year old fashionista daughter can’t grasp the concept of packing “light”, we could definitely put this to the test!
I have a trip in March .do this is just what I need!!!
Boy do I need this It is so hard to pull your suitcase and hold your purse, laptop bag and a totebag and a couple of kids in the other hand It is to the point where I hate airports and traveling I so want this
Thsi would be great for us. we travel withe 2 kids and a service dog and never have enough hands!
this would be nice to have for all those trips
When we travel with the kids, it is often hard to keep track of them and the bags. Using this would surely help free up a necessary hand.
This would so handy, I travel with way too much luggage and need an extra set of arms, this would do perfectly!
Would certainly make movement thru the airport a heck of a lot easier.
my sister just had baby number 3 last month and the 3rd boy in 3 1/2 yrs. They love to go places and this would help keep all that is necessary with three little boys in order.
I travel often with 2 kids and no husband, so this would really come in handy!
Would really help me to carry all of my work related materials from one meeting to the next.
I’d love to win this for our trip to Florida this summer! Especially since we park in the far lot of the airport to save on parking fees and then have to take a shuttle to the main terminal. Thanks!
As a college student, would really help me carry books and other materials to various classes and meetings.
this would be perfect and very helpful with our luggage come january 27th. we’re off to hawaii for two weeks. thanks
I scuba dive and need to take several bags with me on my trips, having a luggage porter with be extremely helpful to me.
Wow! How neat.
i love to travel but hate the cumbersome luggage ,this would make things simpler and save my sanity.
This would come in handy as I travel alone and without helpful hands this would be my help. Thanks for a great giveaway!
If I don’t win I will buy this to get my family with loads of luggage to Spain.
Count me in please!
I fondly remember the days when I could travel with just a backpack filled with a few changes of clothes. Now that I have kids every trip is a MAJOR expedition. Luggage, car seats, diaper bag, laptop bag, stroller – boy could we use this!
What a great idea! I could really use this. Thanks!