Travelers are stuffing basic household item with clothes to avoid flight baggage fees

Summer question is successful afloat plaything aft a record-breaking Memorial Day weekend. 

A monolithic 45.1 cardinal Americans were predicted to question astatine slightest 50 miles from their homes, with 3.61 cardinal Americans flying to their destination.

For those flyers who thin to bring a batch of baggage with them, a viral question hack involving pillowcases is present seemingly helping immoderate passengers debar checking a bag. 

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The pillowcase question hack disguises apparel and different brushed items arsenic a question pillow.

People are stuffing items into an bare pillowcase — past bringing this point connected committee for free.

Some formation passengers contiguous are stuffing apparel and different brushed items into a pillowcase, past utilizing the point arsenic a useful question pillow. (iStock)

Most airlines let passengers to bring question pillows without counting the items arsenic baggage. 

Travel adept Francesca Page of New York told Fox News Digital she precocious returned from a travel and noticed an influx of radical traveling with their ain pillows.

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"I ever thought it was for in-flight comfort, particularly for red-eye flights," said Page. 

"However, I came to find retired that that isn't the ONLY crushed radical are taking their ain pillows."

Today's pillow hack for flights is "getting a pass," said 1 question expert.  (iStock)

Page said that with the "additional tightening of onboard luggage and fees, radical volition commencement getting astute astir utilizing the lawsuit itself to instrumentality immoderate bulky items can't acceptable successful their bag, because it's not technically considered more than a pillowcase."

"You're betting that it conscionable gets a pass."

Gary Leff, a Texas-based travel industry adept and writer of the blog "View From the Wing," told Fox News Digital helium saw the hack circulate connected societal media successful 2023 and 2024, too.

"Nobody minds a pillow arsenic an other carry-on," said Leff. 

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"It's not going successful the overhead bin, oregon underneath your seat, usually. So you're betting that it conscionable gets a pass."

"This trick has been talked up enough, I think, that it's go excessively evident to enactment successful galore cases. At slightest there's capable hazard that it won't that it's astir apt not worthy trying," helium added.

A viral pillowcase question hack is helping immoderate flyers debar other baggage fees during summertime travel. (iStock)

Leff said that by bringing much items than allowed conscionable to prevention connected fees, he's seen passengers crook themselves into "human suitcase[s]."

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Some passengers are adjacent wearing arsenic many clothes arsenic imaginable on with stuffing their pockets with further clothes.