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Sunday 8 November 2009

Fresh departures

As a postscript to yesterday's item about cheap flights, here's a complaint, courtesy of Crooked Timber, about the lack of interesting shops and useful facilities at airports. I'd say things have improved a lot over the past decade, especially in terms of food. But there's still a long way to go. I've never been to an airport that has a less-than-awful record shop, for instance. (I can just hear younger readers asking, "What's a record shop, grandad?") And as the CT writer says, most of the other stores simply offer "miles of the same over-priced globalised tat".  Is there an alternative? Lots of interesting comments, including, from a gay reader, "I would like to see a better places or context within which to say goodbye."

BTW, it sounds as if Danny F will have to start a campaign for an airport at Pinner? Two-and-a-half hours to get to Wapping??!!??

UPDATE: I see that Dave Hill has had a taste of the midnight shuffle at Stansted. Been there, done that.

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