Best way to lock your bags

Look online or in a travel store for TSAapproved locks. The TSA has keys to open those locks in case they need to further inspect them (and hopefully not steal from them). And most people don t think to lock their carryon, but especially now with load factors very high, more and more people are having to gate check bags. Once you drop your bag at the end of the jetway for gatechecking, anyone from a fellow passenger, to a gate agent, to a ramp agent has access to your bag .