Travelers are stuffing basic household item with clothes to avoid flight baggage fees

For those flyers who tend to bring a lot of baggage with them, a viral travel hack involving pillowcases is now apparently helping some passengers avoid checking a bag. 

The pillowcase travel hack disguises clothes and other soft items as a travel pillow.

People are stuffing items into an empty pillowcase - then bringing this item on board for free.

Travel expert Francesca Page of New York told Fox News Digital she recently returned from a trip and noticed an influx of people traveling with their own pillows.

"However, I came to find out that that isn't the ONLY reason people are taking their own pillows."

Page said that with the "additional tightening of onboard luggage and fees, people will start getting smart about using the case itself to take whatever bulky items can't fit in their bag, because it's not technically considered more than a pillowcase."

"Nobody minds a pillow as an extra carry-on," said Leff. 

"It's not going in the overhead bin, or underneath your seat, usually. So you're betting that it just gets a pass."

Leff said that by bringing more items than allowed just to save on fees, he's seen passengers turn themselves into "human suitcase[s]."