An Editor’s Journey
Migneault was sympathetic to my whining, and prior to my trip hooked me up with a TSA-friendly bag Ready 4 Kits had just finished designing, aptly titled the “Travel Kit.” He explained the great lengths the company had gone through to design the toiletry bag to meet the TSA’s standards.
The company spent two years designing it, working with TSA staff from a local airport. While the TSA will not officially bless any luggage, they were more than happy to help in the bag’s design. “We went and met with them … and they kind of gave us feedback and ripped it apart, the first concept of it, and then we kept going back to the drawing board … to try to get it to be compliant.” Once it was successfully designed, Migneault and others from Ready 4 Kits began travel-testing the bag. “We’ve been on 96 one-legged flights,” he said, “[and] we’ve never been rejected with this bag. We’ve never had them detach t either.”