May
No, not like big box stores, we mean literally, big boxes! All over Asia, we have seen hundreds of passengers at airports checking boxes upon boxes of stuff. In Bangkok, one lady was definitely checking boxes of durian or durian-flavoured food – the smell was unmistakable. And the deeper we travel into Asia, the bigger the boxes seem to get! We landed in the early hours of the morning here in Colombo, Sri Lanka (we have 2 more flights before arriving at our final destination of the White Sands Resort in the Maldives), to see the biggest boxes of them all! Indeed, these passengers were collecting boxes of refrigerators, plasma TVs and microwaves that they had bought at the duty free and getting ready to check them as baggage on their onward flights!
I could only imagine what it would be like to see this display at O’Hare, not to mention what the excess baggage cost would be on United!!