Balls to Economy, Winners Fly Club Class
Giles Coren Has No Idea
The Times
4.3 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
The airline industry has big plans to improve life for economy passengers. But Giles and Esther have a better solution, just fly business class. And while they’re at it, ditch Gucci shops, treble the size of Pret and provide free bags to those at the back.
Last year Giles' bid to join the The Garrick Club was declined so, as ITV news presenter Julie Etchingham withdraws her candidacy to join surely, he is on her side? Well it depends, was she tortured at school and how much can she drink?
Finally, what toll do the small microstresses of life take on us? If only there was a handy survey offering more information and on which a newspaper could loosely hang an article? Oh wait… cue a list of pet hates, and a detour into surveys in general and food surveys in particular.
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, so there are two stories in the paper this week, and it's nice to kind of connect stories together because it makes the world make a bit more sense about flying. |
| 0:10.7 | So the first one is from the CEO of Emirates Airlines, Sir Tim Clark. |
| 0:19.5 | My, I used to go out with a guy whose dad was called Tim Clark My I used to go out |
| 0:21.5 | with a guy |
| 0:22.4 | whose dad |
| 0:23.2 | was called Tim Clark |
| 0:24.2 | and he was very |
| 0:24.9 | he was quite a |
| 0:25.8 | you know |
| 0:26.4 | high up guy |
| 0:27.0 | and I didn't think it was him |
| 0:27.8 | but it's not |
| 0:28.3 | sorry Neil |
| 0:28.8 | you've got that |
| 0:29.3 | fucking classic Esther Walker |
| 0:30.2 | that |
| 0:30.4 | fucking audio gold |
| 0:32.7 | Emeritus is in the news |
| 0:36.1 | emirates is in the news this week because the chief executive, whoever it is, is saying |
| 0:43.8 | that economy class flyers have been ignored for too long. And this is, and he's quite right, |
| 0:49.2 | economy class blocks. But since the 90s, he says things. Yeah, since since the 90s it's all sort of horrible |
| 0:54.2 | And he's sort of looking forward in the future |
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