Sentence examples for checked suitcases from inspiring English sources
He had a carry-on and two checked suitcases — one full of gifts for my American family, along with a stuffed panda and clothes for me.
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.
Delta carried nearly 120 million checked suitcases last year, collecting $25 in fees each way for most domestic bags.
The idea is to chuck the Federal Aviation Administration-approved appliance into checked suitcases --it's programmed to power down once the aircraft it's on reaches certain speeds.
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.
Law enforcement officials said that he had a semiautomatic handgun in his checked suitcase and that he followed all legal procedures for transporting the weapon.
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.
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.
"But they're our biggest advocates" because more than men, they take advantage of the flat rate to pack hair dryers, pillows and other personal items that would stay at home if they had to check suitcases.
He added: "As we approach the Easter and summer holidays, we'd urge families to shake out clothes and check suitcases before and during packing to ensure they don't bring home a surprise souvenir with them". A special home will be found for the scorpion.
