Cool travel hacks: New uses for airline amenity kits

For years, airline amenity kits, most of which are handed out in business and first class on long-haul flights, were quite boring. They all looked the same, basically just "Dopp kits" with very little creativity in their design. But that's changing, especially this year, and the emphasis at many airlines has been to create kits that have a second useful life after the contents have been used or removed.

Now before you tune out and think, hey, I never fly in business or first, many frequent fliers who travel "up front" leave the kits behind, and while airlines don't necessarily encourage this, as you file past business and first upon deplaning you won't get arrested if you grab a kit that's been left behind on a seat.

George Hobica is the founder of Airfarewatchdog.com. Airfarewatchdog features the best airfares on thousands of routes verified by a team of expert fare analysts.