Luggage

How to choose

The decisions that actually change what you end up with.

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Open leather case holding a folded striped shirt, a wristwatch, a hip flask and a spirits bottle — A hard case packed flat, with a folded shirt filling the base and small items laid along one side.Photo: Angelina Litvin linalitvina · CC0 · Wikimedia Commons · Open source page

Vintage striped canvas suitcase with leather-bound corners and a top handle, on a white background

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The four measurements that choose a suitcase for you

External size, empty weight, wheel type and shell material settle most luggage decisions. How to read each one off a specification sheet before you look at a price.

Updated 3/11/2026 · 9 min

Photo: Sandrine Z · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Black-and-white street scene of a uniformed man lifting two cases from a railway delivery van outside a house

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Check in luggage size: the limits Australian airlines actually apply

Check in luggage size is set as a single sum of length, width and depth, and the limit changes between domestic and international flights. Here are the published figures and how to measure against them.

Updated 6/11/2026 · 12 min

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