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Straighten Up and FlyLite

Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane!

No, it’s your fully packed suitcase arriving at your destination before you.

FlyLite is a new company that packs, delivers, picks up, and even dry cleans your stuff so you don’t have to. Billing itself as a remote wardrobe manager, it’s like FreshDirect for travel. A boon, no doubt, to flyers who are too frequent, too rich, too lazy, or any combination of the above.

Here’s how it works: You sign up online, and FlyLite sends you a suitcase to fill with your usual travel kit (jeans, shampoo, golf clubs). They clean, store, and catalog everything (in a virtual closet that you can arrange to your liking). Before your next trip, select what you want online, and let FlyLite know where and when you’ll need it. Your stuff will be there when you arrive.

The downside: So far the service is available only in the United States. And it costs $100-$200 per trip.

But nothing beats flying luggage free.

As any Supertraveler knows.


Available online at flylite.com.