We got tired of paying $80 to check a bag.

So we built one that never has to. Trynexy is an Australian vacuum compression carry-on, made by travellers who did the math — and refused to keep losing it to Jetstar, Virgin and Qantas baggage counters.

Designed in Sydney. Built for every airline that charges by the bag.

Trynexy founders at an Australian airport

4,700+ Aussies flying lighter

How it started

It started at a Jetstar counter.

In 2024, our founder watched a young family in front of him at a Sydney check-in desk get charged $220 in bag fees — for a weekend in the Gold Coast. Two of the kids started crying. Mum looked at the total and went quiet. Dad just paid it. There had to be a better way.

We did the math.

Jetstar's domestic checked bag fee starts at $55. A return trip for a family of four is $440. Over a year of school holidays, that's more than most Australians spend on the flights themselves. Virgin tightened enforcement in February 2026. Qantas isn't far behind.

We ran the numbers on every major AU carrier and wrote it up on a whiteboard. The conclusion was impossible to unsee: Australian travellers were paying for a problem we could solve with a bag.

We looked at what existed.

Vacuum compression backpacks weren't new — the Americans had Airback at $340. The Europeans had Backvac at $279. Both were well-made. Neither was designed for 56×36×23cm carry-on. Neither priced for Australians. Neither even mentioned Jetstar.

So we stopped shopping and started sketching.

We built Nexy.

Eighteen months, a lot of prototypes, and one stubborn rule: it had to pass the carry-on sizer at every Australian airline, compress in under ten seconds, and cost less than two flights' worth of bag fees. We landed on $125 — one-time, for a bag that pays for itself on trip two.

Today, more than 4,700 Aussies have skipped the carousel with a Nexy. We're just getting started.

"The airlines made $178M from bag fees last year. We thought Aussies deserved a fairer deal."

What we believe

Three things we won't compromise on.

Every product, every page, every email we send comes back to these three principles. If a decision doesn't fit all three, we don't ship it.

Built for Australians — not adapted for us

Every Nexy is sized to the 56×36×23cm carry-on limit used by Jetstar, Virgin, Qantas and Rex. No last-minute retrofits for the US market. No imperial-to-metric guesswork. Made for the flights you actually take.

Radical honesty over clever marketing

Vacuum compression saves volume, not weight. Our bag is 1.1kg empty. Clothes come out slightly wrinkled. We'll tell you all of this before you buy — because we'd rather lose a sale than a trust.

Fair pricing, full stop

$125 for the same technology the US brands charge $340 for. We keep margins modest and spend nothing on fake urgency or inflated "was" prices. The bag pays for itself in two flights — and we won't dress that up with a countdown timer.

Aussie travellers
flying carry-on with Nexy

Star rating
across 4,700+ reviews

Money-back guarantee
no questions asked

Bag fees saved
by customers in 2025

What we won't do

The things most brands in
our category still get wrong.

We've watched competitors cut corners on every one of these. We won't. If that costs us a sale, fair enough — it's a trade we're happy to make.

We don't fake reviews

Every review on this site is verified against a real order. No bought star-count. No AI-generated testimonials. If we have three reviews, you'll see three.

We don't run fake countdowns

Our shipping cutoff is real — it's the actual time our Sydney warehouse dispatches that day. Refresh the page. It won't reset.

We don't hide the fine print

Compression saves volume, not weight. Clothes come out mildly wrinkled. The pump is USB-C rechargeable. We say all of this before checkout, not after.

We don't inflate "was" prices

Our crossed-out $249 is the price we launched at — not a made-up MSRP to make $125 look like a bigger discount. Australian Consumer Law applies. We follow it.

Meet the team

The people behind the bag.

A small team of travellers, designers and logistics nerds working out of Sydney. We pick up our own customer emails. If you write in, one of us replies — usually within a few hours.

The Trynexy team

Founders & Designers

"We started Trynexy because we were sick of watching Australian travellers pay $55 at a time for something a smarter bag could solve. Every Nexy we ship is a small rebellion against a system that charges you for gravity. We're here to make that rebellion easy — and affordable."

Sydney, NSW · Carry-on only, obviously

Our promises