I purchased this and the Away Carry on Plus at the same time to compare them. The TravelPro's smooth wheels, handle quality and interior zipper storage areas beat out Away hands-down. However, the expandability, extremely useful compression pad and the superior capacity of the Away (there's some kind of voodoo involved - I got SO much in this thing without expanding!), made me go with it instead of this TravelPro. I LOVED it, but being a 6'3 guy with size 12 shoes, I just needed to be able to get more in the case in order not to have to check. Away got the job done.