Conor Pope

You're in Airport Street.

Well, you probably made some slight, you probably made some slight attempt with Rhine or Erling.

It's delighted with themselves when they found that beautifully wrapped perfume.

They probably smell great directly as a result of you, Clare.

To be honest, a lot of this stuff is do as I say, not as I do, because I'm as guilty as this stuff as the next person.

Sometimes when I go into airports, I'm like a drunk gambler in a Vegas casino, and I'm just spending money like I've won the lotto.

So it is very much I'm lecturing the nation on what they should do, and sometimes I don't do that myself.

There's always no.

But the other thing that strikes me about airport shopping is there's always a suitcase shop.

And it always mystified me as to why, like, surely the last thing you need when you're in an airport shopping haul is a suitcase.

Because you already have your stuff in your suitcase.

case, your suitcases are already heading towards the plane.

But there's a reason for that.

What they do is they make all of their cash on selling the small little incidental things, you know, the baggage tags, the straps, all the accessories that go with suitcases.

And

And the suitcases that they have on the shop are more effective as an ad because we are in prime travel mode when we're in the airports.

So people look at the suitcases in these shops and go, oh, next time I travel, I'm going to bear in mind that thing.

So the suitcases are less something that you want to buy more and more a subconscious reminder that you will need that into the future.

Exactly, 100%.

And that's kind of how we all feel when we're travelling, because even though we grumble and moan about travel, it is still an absolutely remarkable thing that we can sometimes be sitting eight miles high in the sky, eating a breakfast and being served hot coffee by Aer Lingus or Ryanair or whoever it might be.