Imagine never having to pack another bag, wait at another airport carousel or haul bags through traffic and hotel lobbies. Wish Granted.
Flylite provides customers with a suitcase, which you fill with the items with which you normally travel. They hold your items until it's time for your next trip. Before that trip, you log onto the Flylite website, select the items you'd like to meet you in your destination...and Flylite takes care of the rest.
When it's time to check out, the suitcase goes back to Flylite, where they will clean and store your clothes for your next trip.
Cost: between $100-$200 per trip.
OK...that might sound kinda pricey at first blush. But, let's remember that the net is slightly less, as they are handling the dry cleaning, for which you would have to pay anyway. And, assuming they aren't using commercial airlines to ship your luggage (which mishandled 4 million bags last year)...how much is the "insurance" that you will see your bag upon arrival worth? $50? $100? Then, there is the value of your time. That 15-30 minutes you spent packing (and going to the dry cleaners upon your return). What's that worth? $25? $50.
Running the numbers makes this pretty tempting...and, thus, a smart move by a cunning entrepreneur.
0.5 hours to pack + 0.5 hours to unpack + 1 hour for laundry and dry cleaning = 2 hours / trip
$100 / 2 hours = $50 / hour
If time = money, flylite makes sense if you make more than $50 per hour--not accounting for the hassles saved, the quality of time saved and the potential tax dedcuction, of course.
Posted by: flylitepa | February 28, 2007 at 19:55
Thats really good and it will make traveling easy for people because packing for luggage and taking care for this is the most difficult task as i think.
Posted by: International Moving | February 02, 2010 at 08:09