Another One Bites the Dust!

I'm talking about suitcases!! I have NO IDEA what the baggage employees are doing at airlines these days, but either suitcases are just not made to last more than one trip or there is some serious baggage abuse going on behind the scenes. In the past two years, we have thrown away a number of mutilated suitcases and we've never had to do that before. I just used an Eddie Bauer one that my mom gave me for our Savannah trip. Each destination brought shards of suitcase support plastic. Do you think the airline baggage guys would prefer that we all go out and my steel cased suitcases???