Black Friday 2026 falls on November 27 and Cyber Monday on November 30, and luggage is one of the categories where the late-November sale events genuinely matter — the legacy brands, the Amazon-native brands and the direct-to-consumer names all have documented sale histories — and one where a few premium names have never discounted at all. This page is the evergreen version of the deals roundup: what has historically gone on sale and by how much, what has not, which product classes are worth waiting for, and the site's current top picks at the price they are today.
Deals as they go live
No 2026 Black Friday or Cyber Monday luggage deals have gone live yet. When they do, verified deals — a real listed discount on a bag we have already researched, checked against the product's everyday price — will be posted in this section, with the date. Until then, everything below is documented history and buying guidance, not a prediction. We will not tell you a discount is coming that we cannot document, and we will never print a price we have not fetched.
A note on how to read a luggage discount, because this category is unusually prone to a flattering number. Amazon's "percent off" is measured against a list price, and for many luggage lines the list price is not the price the bag sells at on an ordinary Tuesday. A 40% off headline on a bag that usually sells at 30% below list is a 14% discount. The number that matters is the sale price against the everyday price, and that is why every pick on this page carries a live, date-stamped Amazon price today: it is the baseline you will compare November against. Our price policy explains where the number comes from and why it disappears rather than going stale.
What has historically discounted, with receipts
These are documented prior-year sales, each with a source in the list at the bottom of the page. They are not predictions about 2026 — they are the pattern, and patterns in retail are honored more often than not and broken without notice.
- Samsonite. Ran a sitewide sale on its own store for Black Friday 2025 — reported at up to 40% off sitewide by one deal tracker on November 20, and at up to 50% off select items plus a stacking 10% code by a December 1 roundup; the two figures are not contradictory, since one is the sitewide ceiling and one the select-item ceiling. On Amazon, the same December roundup listed a Samsonite Freeform two-piece set as a Black Friday deal. During Amazon's October 2025 Prime event, a Samsonite Omni 2 two-piece set was reported at 52% off list and the Elevation Plus at 30% off.
- Travelpro. Maintains a standing Black Friday deals collection on travelpro.com and runs direct promotions through the year — when we fetched that page in September 2026 it was showing a tiered spend-and-save Labor Day promotion, which tells you the brand discounts direct several times a year, not only in November. A Rick Steves forum thread from November 14, 2024 reported "pretty substantial discounts" on Maxlite carry-ons and underseat totes in that year's sale. Travelpro was also named among the discounted brands in coverage of the October 2025 Prime event, without a specific product listed.
- Delsey. A Helium Aero hardside expandable was reported at 42% off list during the October 2025 Prime event, and Delsey's own store ran a Black Friday 2025 sale whose percentage the December roundup did not specify.
- Away. Ran 25% off nearly everything for Black Friday 2025, through December 1, with an extra 10% on orders over $750 and named exclusions (Aluminum Edge, Meridian leather, limited collaborations). The same discount was reported on Amazon, where Away now lists The Carry-On. During the October 2025 Prime event the Softside Bigger Carry-On was reported at 19% off on Amazon.
- Monos and Béis. Monos ran 25% off sitewide for Black Friday 2025 with an early code, and up to 40% off sitewide in 2023. Béis ran 30% off sitewide for Black Friday 2025. Both sell direct rather than on Amazon; our comparisons link them as non-earning reference links.
- Amazon-native and value brands. Amazon's own Black Friday 2025 deals list named an expandable hardshell suitcase from U.S. Traveler at up to 42% off and an Osprey travel backpack at up to 25% off. During the October 2025 Prime event, a SwissGear Sion softside was reported at 22% off list, a Coolife three-piece set at 15%, and a U.S. Traveler 20-inch carry-on at 36%.
- Accessories. Veken packing cubes were reported at 39% off, BAGAIL packing cubes at 32% off and a BAGAIL digital luggage scale at 20% off during the October 2025 Prime event. The percentages are real; the dollar savings on a cube set are the price of a sandwich.
What rarely discounts, or never has
- Rimowa. Has never run a Black Friday promotion and does not hold sales at any point in the year — no coupons, no clearance section, no seasonal promotions, with prices the same year-round. The only documented route to a lower price is duty-free airport retail. If the person you are buying for wants a Rimowa, waiting for November will not help.
- TUMI. Discounts, but not the way the headline suggests. Its Black Friday 2025 offer was up to 30% off select sale items, explicitly not storewide; a December roundup described it as an extra 15% off the sale section through December 1. The tracker's own summary: newer collections and bestsellers sit at the lower end of the discount range, while seasonal designs and discontinued colors see the steeper cuts. If the target is a current Alpha or 19 Degree piece, expect the sale section, not the bag you had in mind.
- Briggs & Riley. Not a documented sitewide Black Friday discounter. We could not find a fetched record of a storewide Black Friday cut, and its sale page when we fetched it read "Missed out on the sale? Sign up for SMS." The deep discounts on record are retailer clearances of outgoing versions — a Baseline Essential 22-inch carry-on at half of list on Amazon in January 2025, for example, on the model that has since been superseded. Those are worth catching when they happen and cannot be timed to November.
- House brands and everyday-low-price listings. We could not find a documented multi-year pattern for Amazon Basics luggage in the sources we fetched, so we make no claim about it either way. What we can say is structural: a bag whose everyday price is already close to its list price has less room to move than one that carries a padded list.
Buy now or wait for November, by product class
The honest answer is that it depends on what the bag is for and when the trip is. These are our reads of the documented pattern above, not predictions, and a trip in October outranks every one of them.
- Legacy mainstream carry-ons and checked bags (Samsonite, American Tourister, Delsey, Travelpro). Wait if you can. Every one of these brands has a documented sale history in both the October Prime event and Black Friday week, on Amazon and direct. Set the live price on this page as your baseline and buy in November only if the sale price beats it, not the list.
- Luggage sets. The class where waiting has historically paid most in dollars, because the percentage applies to the largest number — a Samsonite Omni 2 two-piece was reported at more than half off list in October 2025. Also the class most flooded with unbranded deal listings; apply the same shell, wheel and warranty criteria our luggage set roundup uses, or a bargain set is a bargain for one trip.
- Direct-to-consumer (Away, Monos, Béis). Wait. All three ran documented sitewide discounts of 25 to 30% for Black Friday 2025, and Away's Amazon listing carried its discount too. Our Away review is the page to read while you wait.
- Premium (TUMI, Briggs & Riley). Buy when you need it. TUMI's discounts have applied to a selected sale range, and we found no fetched record of a storewide Briggs & Riley cut; waiting for a headline on a current-line piece is waiting for something the record does not show. Our luxury luggage roundup explains what the premium buys at full price.
- Rimowa. Buy when you need it. There is no sale to wait for.
- Accessories (packing cubes, scales, toiletry bags). Buy when you need them. The documented percentages are real and the dollars are small; a trip without a scale costs more at the counter than the scale ever will. Our under-$50 gifts guide ranks the ones worth giving.
- One-bag travel packs (Osprey and similar). Worth a wait if the trip allows — Osprey appeared in Amazon's own Black Friday 2025 list at up to 25% off — but Osprey's All Mighty Guarantee means a full-price Farpoint is not a purchase you will regret.
Our current top picks, at today's price
These are the standing winners from the site's roundups — not deals, not predictions — with the live Amazon price and its fetch date on every button. This is the baseline. If a November price beats the number you see here, it is a real discount; if it only beats the list price, it is a headline. Each verdict says which class the bag belongs to above and what the documented history for its brand looks like.
How to shop a luggage sale without being fooled by it
Luggage is one of the categories where a sale can be both real and misleading at the same time, and the reason is the list price. Many mainstream luggage lines carry a manufacturer's list price that the bag rarely sells at, so a percentage-off headline measured against it overstates the saving. The fix is simple and it is the whole reason this page shows live prices today: know the everyday price before the sale, and judge November against that number, not against the strikethrough.
The three questions to ask of any luggage deal
Is it the bag you researched, or a lookalike? Sale listings surface variant ASINs, older versions and near-identical sets from unbranded makers. Check the exact model name against the one on our roundup, and if it is a version you have not heard of, read the how to choose luggage guide before the timer persuades you. Is the discount against the everyday price? Compare to the button on this page, which is what the bag cost on the day you read it. Does the warranty survive the sale? Nearly all luggage warranties require purchase from an authorized retailer; a deal from a third-party seller on a marketplace may not qualify. Our warranties guide explains what to keep.
The calendar, and why October matters
The luggage sale season is no longer one weekend. Amazon's October 2025 Prime event carried the largest single documented luggage markdowns we found, its Black Friday Week 2025 ran through November 28 and rolled straight into Cyber Monday deals through December 1, and the direct-to-consumer brands ran their sitewide sales across the same stretch with early codes. For 2026 the calendar dates are November 27 and November 30; whether the events repeat, and at what levels, is exactly what this page will document rather than predict.
Gifts, and the shipping cutoff
If the bag is a gift, the sale is only useful if it arrives. Our gift guides are built from the same picks as this page — under $50, under $150, luxury, frequent flyers and wedding sets — so a deal on any of them is a deal on a gift we have already ranked. Include the receipt with anything you give; the warranty depends on it.
The bottom line
Wait for November on mainstream carry-ons, luggage sets and the direct-to-consumer brands, all of which have documented sale histories — and judge the sale against today's live price, not the list. Buy premium and Rimowa when you need them, because the record does not show a headline discount on a current-line piece. Buy accessories when you need them, because the dollars are small. And check back here in November: verified deals will be posted in the section at the top of the page, dated, and only once they are real.
How we picked
We did not lab-test these bags
Everyone in this category says they tested twenty suitcases. We have not lab-tested any of these, and we say so. What we did instead: compiled each bag's published specifications, checked its dimensions against the airline sizers, ran the cost-per-trip and weight-to-capacity math, read the aggregated owner reviews, and scored every pick against a published rubric. The scores are judgments from documented research — not measurements we took, because we do not have a lab and we will not pretend we do. Where a number came from someone else's work, we name them in Sources.
