Suzanne Harrington: Budget airlines have taught us something about travelling light

While fitting everything into your carry-on luggage is a bit like Tetris, it's worth it to avoid the extra costs

Thank you, budget airlines, for teaching me — the hard way — the fine art of travelling light.

My boyfriend and I are going on holiday, escaping Brexit Britain. Yay! We are counting down the days. There’s nothing like planning a trip in 2022 — the anxious hourly scanning of our feeds as EasyJet flights continue to (metaphorically, lawyers) fall from the skies; the relentless reports of package holidays cancelled fifteen minutes before departure, as police hover around terminals to deal not with terrorism, but with passengers melting down from disappointment.

Will we get away, or spend our holidays eating airport sandwiches on an airport floor, before turning around and going home again? Will our flights be overbooked, so that we end up re-enacting a Fight Club/ Lord of the Flies mash-up in the departure lounge? Will we get shoved on a coach and diverted to another airport six hours away?