There's a great luxury travel brand to be made in productizing ultra-light backpacker techniques and materials for frequent flyers
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I've had this thought too but I don't see much evidence that luxury travel bag buyers care much about an extra pound or two, which is what ultralight backpackers rearrange heave and earth around
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you know how many of those guys have back problems? there's definitely a market
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Sure but the compromises you make are tough to advertise. You save 1.5 lb for a market that never weighed their stuff, in exchange you don't have leather, you don't have a ton of built in organization, you don't have beefy side carry handles etc.
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