Great NY Times article on luggage, Über & paying in U.S. $

Ah, Phillip, you beat me to it. :) I just finished reading this and thought it had some helpful tips. Certainly, looks like the same advice travelers get here.

The only problem with that article is that people often don't read to the bottom. It spends hundreds of words talking all about the new luggage requirements and just a few at the end saying that it isn't happening.

It has died a death but I wonder how many readers understand that?

And about Uber - they put an umlaut on the name in the article - Uber doesn't use one in either North America or the UK. I don't know about France....

Nig, glad you read the whole article. When I pull it up, there are no umlauts. Perhaps your web browser self-corrects?

Uber doesn't use an Umlaut in (German speaking) Switzerland or Germany either. This leaves me confused how to pronounce it:

• ub-ber (which is how uber would be pronounced in German)
• oo-ber (which is how über would be pronounced in German)

Paying in US $ is always a bad idea. How is the shop going to get rid of these funny foreign banknotes? It requires a special trip to the bank and the bank would charge more than the notes are worth - solution, charge the customer for the bank charges and time wasted.

No umlauts when I read it the NY Times article and I just retrieved the travel section from the recycling and confirm that there are no umlauts in the print version either. :)

I like the luggage size/certification idea. Hope it comes back to life.

Chris, I don't think they mean actually paying with US dollars. I think they are talking about Dynamic Currency Conversion - making charges to your card in US dollars instead of the local currency.