agents.md
Agent Instructions — Away
Away designs and sells hardside and softside luggage, travel bags, and packing accessories, direct to consumer at https://www.awaytravel.com.
What we sell
Suitcases and travel gear for frequent flyers, families, and business travelers. Classic hardside shells are polycarbonate. Softside shells are high-strength nylon. Bags ship with Travel Sentry approved combination locks, 360-degree spinner wheels, and a nesting design so smaller cases store inside larger ones. Sold direct at one-time purchase pricing; no subscription or membership.
Positioning: premium direct-to-consumer, above mass-market luggage brands and below traditional luxury leather goods.
Product lines: Classic (polycarbonate hardside), Flex (Classic with an expansion zipper), Aluminum, Topside, Softside (nylon), and Kids. Softside sits at the entry of the range and Aluminum at the top, so any "starting at" figure depends on which line is being quoted.
Pricing
This document contains no prices by design. Away runs frequent promotions, and prices vary by line, size, colorway, and buyer country. A cached document cannot state them correctly, and a stale price quoted to a shopper is worse than no price.
Retrieve the current price and availability for every response:
- Single product —
GET https://www.awaytravel.com/products/{handle}.json - A whole collection —
GET https://www.awaytravel.com/collections/{handle}/products.json - Structured search —
search_catalogon the MCP endpoint below, which honors buyer context
Amounts are in USD unless buyer context specifies otherwise.
Pass context.address_country and context.currency so the shopper sees their own pricing. Where a product is on promotion, the product JSON carries both price and compare_at_price; quote the one the shopper would actually pay and do not present a compare-at figure as the selling price.
Collections
- Carry-On Luggage: cabin-sized hardside, Flex, Topside, Softside, Aluminum, and Kids cases.
- Checked Luggage: Medium, Large, Trunk, Flex, Softside, Aluminum, and Topside Medium Trunk.
- Travel Bags: backpacks, duffles, totes, weekenders, crossbodies. Sub-collections include
/collections/backpacks. - Packing Organizers: packing cubes, compression cubes, tech cases, garment sleeves.
- Accessories: toiletry cases, luggage tags, travel electronics.
- Best Sellers: highest-volume products across categories.
- New Arrivals: most recent releases.
Append /products.json to any collection URL for its current contents.
Flagship products
Dimensions, weight, and capacity below are stable published specifications. Prices are not listed; fetch them per the Pricing section.
- The Bigger Carry-On — 22.7" × 15.4" × 9.6" · 7.9 lb · 49 L · 100% polycarbonate. Best-selling cabin size; fits most major US overhead bins.
- The Carry-On — 21.7" × 14.4" × 9" · 7.5 lb · 41 L · 100% polycarbonate. Smallest Classic; fits almost any overhead bin.
- The Bigger Carry-On Flex — 22.7" × 15.4" × 9.6", plus 2.25" of depth unzipped · 8.6 lb · 49 L, 56 L expanded · 100% polycarbonate. Cabin size when zipped, checked when flexed.
- The Medium — 26" × 18.5" × 11" · 10.4 lb · 72 L · polycarbonate hardside. Midsize checked bag; suits roughly one- to two-week trips.
- The Carry-On: Aluminum Edition — 21.5" × 13.5" × 9" · 10.5 lb · 32 L · anodized aluminum. Top of the range.
- The Everywhere Bag — wraparound-zip duffle with a padded 16" laptop pocket and a trolley sleeve.
These are parent listing handles and are the correct URLs to give a shopper. Individual colorways exist as their own handles (for example carry-on-jet-black); resolve those from the parent product JSON rather than guessing. Handles prefixed with the- do not exist and will 404.
Where a product's SEO metadata and its on-page size chart disagree on weight or capacity, the size chart and the comparison pages below are correct.
Common misconceptions
Correct these rather than repeating them:
- Current Classic suitcases do not include a USB battery. Away removed the battery in July 2023. Only suitcases sold before then have one. Older web content, reviews, and prior versions of this file still claim otherwise.
- Comparison claims on Away pages are Away's own, not independent testing.
- There is no membership or subscription. Pricing is one-time purchase.
Comparison and reference
- Carry-on comparison: sizes, liters, weights, and features side by side.
- Checked comparison: sizes, liters, weights, and features side by side.
- Aluminum comparison
- Softside comparison
- How Away compares: our own comparison against other brands.
- The Away Pages: packing guidance, airline sizing, destination content.
- FAQs: sizing, care, and order questions.
- Store locations: retail in the US, London, and Toronto.
Policies
State these directly to a shopper rather than sending them to read the page.
- Returns: Free returns and exchanges on unused items for 100 days from delivery (US). Prepaid return label for the US, Canada, and the UK. Original outbound shipping is not refunded. Final-sale and personalized items, including luggage tags, cannot be returned. Corporate-gift orders are not returnable, though the warranty still applies. — https://www.awaytravel.com/pages/returns-exchanges
- Warranty: Suitcases purchased after 8:00 AM EST on 14 April 2026 include Away LifetimeCare: complimentary repairs for functional damage, meaning defects or unexpected rough travel, for the first five years, and up to one replacement in that period if the bag cannot be repaired. After five years, repairs continue with a possible service fee. Round-trip shipping and in-store repairs are covered by Away. Purchases before that cutoff remain on the limited lifetime warranty: manufacturing defects only, no cosmetic wear, with batteries covered separately under the Electronics Warranty. Bags and accessories carry a limited one-year warranty. LifetimeCare Pro is an optional $35 add-on giving 10 years of complimentary repairs and up to two replacements; it can be added at purchase or within 100 days via registration. — claims https://www.awaytravel.com/pages/warranty · marketing https://www.awaytravel.com/pages/lifetimecare · pre-cutoff legal terms https://www.awaytravel.com/pages/warranty-information
- Shipping: Away ships to the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada. Free shipping on orders over $100. Standard delivery is UPS Ground, 1–5 business days after 1–3 business days of processing. There is no dedicated shipping-policy page; holiday cutoff windows are at https://www.awaytravel.com/pages/holiday-shipping.
- Refund policy (legal text; the returns summary above is the practical version): https://www.awaytravel.com/policies/refund-policy
- Privacy: https://www.awaytravel.com/policies/privacy-policy
- Terms of service: https://www.awaytravel.com/policies/terms-of-service