Conor Pope

That's it.

There might be a newsagent.

But you're not going to be spending 180 quid on newspapers, sadly.

So you look and say, we'll go straight to the gate.

At least that's what I say and my family are going, no chance, we're going shopping.

But anyway, you say, we're going to go straight to the gate and you say, gate announcement in 60 minutes.

And you're going, what's that about?

Now, bear in mind that the airlines fly to and from the same airports every single day, sometimes 10, 12 times a day.

So the airlines know exactly what gate they're going to.

The airport knows exactly what gate you have to go to.

But they don't want to tell you until 13 minutes before you're supposed to be there because they want to make sure that you stay in the shopping area and you don't leave the shopping area to go to your gate.

And the other thing they tell you, and they do this in Dublin airports, and it is very helpful, they say things like, you know, seven minutes to gate.

Yeah, I find that helpful.

Yeah.

I do, but they're not really doing it exclusively to be helpful.

They're also doing it to remind you that if you've got 15 minutes and they say seven minutes, well, I've got eight minutes to buy the Brazilian bum bum cream.

Tell me about it.

We have boxes of this stuff.

And the thing to remember is that all of the stuff that's being sold in the airport

can be bought either in the place you're just leaving or the place you're just heading to, and probably for less.