New reports suggest that women are unashamedly hijacking their partner’s luggage when travelling.
A new study has revealed that more than half of men claim that by the end of a trip some of their female travelling companion’s belongings end up in their suitcase.
It’s a scene that is all too familiar for many women, frantically trying to squeeze everything back into a suitcase at the airport after a quick reshuffle.
In fact, 37 per cent of women admit to re-organising their suitcase at the airport check-in desk.
With the poll from London Stansted Airport also highlighting that almost half of female travellers have confessed to packing “too much”, it might come as no surprise that women turn to their partners to aid them in their personal luggage struggle.
The research also found that a quarter of travellers spend at least three hours carefully crafting and moulding their items to fit into their suitcases. Despite all this effort, 13 per cent of people claimed to have left the house without their passport or boarding pass.
The survey of more than 2,000 travellers found that 52 per cent of men have seen their luggage hijacked by their female partners.
“The days of saying ‘don’t forget your toothbrush’ are long gone,” claimed Mandy Mather, Stansted’s Terminal Manager, when speaking to The Telegraph. “Now the question should be: what can we leave at home?”
More than 18 million passengers pass through the doors of London Stansted Airport every year and it is the UK’s fourth-busiest airport.
