Postcards live on a rack inside Tribb’s, not in a shop
PGF’s “Souvenir Shop” in T1 is really just a couple of postcard and trinket racks inside Tribb’s café in the small public hall. You’re looking at a bar with a few gift spinners, not a separate boutique with regional products or branded merch. Expect the same space that sells coffee and basic snacks to also sell anything you might mail or bring home from the airport.
Hours track roughly with flight times, so on quiet days the café and its postcard racks can be shut outside the main departure waves. Airside in T1 you’ll only find basic snacks and drinks, with reviewers calling it “virtually no shopping—just the bar with a few things.” If your flight is first out around 06:00–07:00, don’t rely on grabbing last‑minute gifts here.
Prices run more like standard French café/airport markups than tourist‑shop premiums: postcards are a few euros, small keyrings or magnets slightly more, and snacks at Tribb’s priced above a city supermarket but not outrageous. There is no dedicated regional‑product shop, so forget grabbing Catalan wine, anchovies, or jam here; those simply aren’t stocked in T1.
Regulars say they buy wine and food souvenirs in Perpignan city shops or supermarkets like Carrefour or Auchan, or over the border in Spain, long before reaching PGF. With that sorted, they treat the airport as a 20–30 minute in‑and‑out: check‑in, security, coffee at Tribb’s, then boarding from the few T1 gates.
Tip: if you want to mail a postcard, buy it at Tribb’s in T1 landside, fill it in at the café tables, then drop it in the yellow mailbox outside the terminal near the ATM before you head to security.