Sentence examples for checked suitcase from inspiring English sources

Scottish and American investigators later concluded that the explosion was caused by a plastic bomb planted in a checked suitcase by Libyan intelligence agents.

That destroyed the rationale of the original Capps system, which was established in 1998 in response to the possibility of a bomb in a checked suitcase like the one that destroyed Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland.

But the protocol itself can be flawed, some security experts say, depending on how many checked suitcases are opened for searching and how carefully searches are done.

Chris Askins, 35, who was waiting to catch a flight back to New York, said he's had three cameras stolen from his checked suitcases in the last 15 years.

Many major airports offer services to check suitcases for limited periods of time ($4 to $16 a day at Kennedy in New York; $6.50 to $24 a day at Heathrow), but coat-checking looks like an idea that could work elsewhere.

"It is very hard to take pills every day when you still stay with your parents unless you keep them with friends...parents check suitcases.

Loading cargo takes almost as long as loading people, and on big planes, airlines use baggage containers to speed the job, rather than moving the checked baggage suitcase by suitcase.

"I was nervous about what I would say to customs from either country if they checked my suitcase," he says.

"How do I put this without sounding elitist?" she said as she checked her suitcase in Madrid for a flight to Marrakesh.

The price of checking a suitcase on an airplane — $15 to $40 a bag — has added up to more than $6 billion in revenue for airlines in the United States in the last four years, according to Transportation Department statistics.

When checking a suitcase, put a card inside with your name, destination hotel and phone number.