Il passeggero evita il costo del bagaglio spedendo la borsa della spesa Lidl per £ 2,59 | Blog sui soldi

Not a bad idea, but it’s another opportunity to point out the absurdity that in our relatively tiny country, domestic flights are cheaper than taking the train. We need to make long-distance domestic train travel competitive with flying and cars.

£2.59 is nowhere near enough to risk it not turning up.

I was doing something similar about 20 years ago, my job took me all around the world and it was almost always cheaper to send my luggage ahead on a courier service than pay the airlines fees. Plus you get out of the destination airport a lot quicker.