Consumer Reports tests best luggage at any budget for a late summer escape [Video]

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) — Between long lines, flight cancellations and delays, your luggage is the last thing you want to worry about at the airport. Does that mean you have to spend a small fortune to get a quality piece of luggage? Thankfully, the answer is no.

Consumer Reports does the hard work for you putting luggage through a series of tough tests to find some budget-friendly picks.

Consumer Reports says its luggage tests mimic the airport experience and everything in between, such as dragging, dropping, and pulling the bags to simulate someone traveling with a piece of luggage. Their tests find that you don’t have to spend a lot to get a quality bag.

Testers fill the luggage with fabric to simulate a bag packed with clothing and then run it along a conveyor belt studded with obstacles for thirty miles.

To check handle strength, a machine lifts the weighed-down bags 5,000 times. The test …