How It Started
A flight from Toronto. A bag that never showed up.
It started with a frustrating but completely ordinary experience: a checked bag that didn't arrive. Two days of wearing the same clothes. A $300 airline credit that didn't cover half the replacement costs. A claims process that took six weeks to go nowhere.
After the fourth time something like this happened across our team — lost bags, delayed bags, $640 in fees on a single family trip — we stopped complaining and started building a solution.
The question we kept asking was simple: why does travelling with everything you need require handing it over to strangers?
The answer, we realised, was that nobody had built a carry-on with enough capacity to make checked luggage obsolete. So we built one. That's AERIS.
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What We Stand For
Bag tag fraud is real. Lost luggage is real. We build products that remove you from risk systems entirely — not just mitigate them.
Every minute at check-in, bag drop, or baggage claim is wasted. We design around getting you through the airport faster.
Carry-on travel used to mean leaving things behind. With vacuum compression, it means bringing everything and paying nothing extra.
We test on real routes — Ryanair, Spirit, long-haul, connecting flights. If it doesn't hold up across a full travel day, it doesn't ship.
Our Flagship Product
The AEROPack Pro
The bag we wish had existed when we started travelling. Vacuum compression technology that shrinks a full week of clothes by up to 50% — giving you 45–60 litres of real packing space inside a carry-on that fits every major airline's overhead bin.
No checked bag fees. No baggage claim. No risk. Just you and your bag, from door to door.
Know the Risk
The Bag Tag Switching Scam — And Why It Can Ruin Your Trip
Every time you hand a bag to an airline, it disappears into a handling system you have zero visibility into. For most travellers, it comes back at the other end without incident. But for thousands every year, a corrupt baggage handler makes a swap that changes everything.
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The handler swaps your tagA corrupt baggage handler replaces your destination tag with the tag from a bag filled with narcotics. The swap takes seconds and happens out of sight in the baggage handling area.
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Criminal associates collect the drugsAt the destination, the criminal's contacts collect the drug-filled bag. Your ID is on it as cover. If the pickup fails or security intervenes, your name is attached to the contraband.
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You are linked to the bagAuthorities trace the tag back to you. In countries with mandatory sentencing for drug trafficking, this can mean years of pre-trial detention before you even get a chance to prove you knew nothing.
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The only guaranteed fix: carry-onA bag that never leaves your hands cannot be tampered with. No swap is possible. No tag can be changed. Carry-on travel removes you from this risk system entirely.
Why AERIS Is Different
We didn't build a luggage brand. We built a travel philosophy.
Tested and compliant with Ryanair, Spirit, Frontier, Air Canada, and all major carriers — including the strictest budget airline size limits.
A bag that never leaves your hands cannot be tampered with. No trackers, no tamper seals — just complete, unbroken control.
The average traveller spending $400–$640 a year in baggage fees recoups the full cost of an AEROPack Pro on the very first trip.
Carry-on travellers save 30–55 minutes per flight — 6–12 hours a year reclaimed from check-in queues and baggage claim waits.
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