Packing a suit (and dress clothes) for a flight

Dude I travel weekly pack the whole thing and touch it up with iron in hotel. If you take your shirts to cleaners have them fold them for future travel they work much better.

If you don't want to trust the hotel iron you could also invest in a little portable steamer. If you are OK with it taking up luggage space.

Get a clothes wrinkle steamer for $25 on Amazon.

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Turn the shower up hot, hang your clothes on the towel rack, close the door, come back in 15 minutes.

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Did this at a hotel back during Covid. Ended up forgetting about it and left the shower running all day. No maid service, so it ran about 12 hours. Entire room was dripping with condensation by the time I got back.

May be too late for you now but they do sell Traveler Suits now. Fold neatly into suitcase and hang when you get to your room.
When you put it on the next morning it is just like coming from the cleaners.
Shirts too but I always touched those up with an iron. Became very competent with an iron.

The best way is to not fold the clothes but roll them up. Usually no wrinkle problems.

For button downs and slacks, I use a pack-it folder. Put your shoes in shoe sacs, you don't want any amount of polish to end up on anything. For the suit jacket, I just fold the left front and right front backwards (so the lining is facing out. That way, when I hang them right side out at the hotel, any creases that formed will esentiallly hang themselves out.

A hard sided suitcase is probably detrimental, it lacks flexibility and "give." People also tend to overpack the shite out of them, which compresses everything inside, which causes any wrinkles to be much more severe. Pack whatever suitcase you use a bit lightly.

I think the next time I travel with a suit, I'm going to bring along a Dryel bag and sheet. Stick it in the hotel dryer for 15 minutes, and the wrinkles should be gone.

Dryel on Amazon

I use them at home all the time, so it should work.

Checking the garment bag works well for me.

Wow, people still wear suits for a work meeting? I'm loving my job even more.