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I see so many flight crews carrying (pulling) TravelPro luggage that I knew one of two things had to true:

1. The crews get a significant discount.
2. The crews know it is of high quality and worth the cost.

I finally got curious enough to ask the crew of a recent flight and it turns out the answer is 3) All of the above:

1. They (at least as Air Canada crew members) are given the bags.
2. You can have the bags when you pry them from their cold, dead hands.

Seems that the typical case for them was a bag that had lasted years in spite of being manhandled daily and thrown into the cargo hold of the plane an average of five times a day (gate checked).

All in all I got a very strong endorsement to the quality and durability of the bags.

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