Kreol Travel Retail has partnered with Dufry to offer its travel retail-exclusive Nadir Turkish delight in duty free outlets at Sharjah International Airport. A promotion offering a -10% discount on Nadir lines, which include four flagship flavours – Safranbolu, Sultan, Pistachio and Almond & Hazelnut – is running until the end of June. Sharjah captured […]
Russian vodka brand Beluga has created a set of special awards for retailers which aim to support Beluga sales globally in duty free. The five duty free awards and winners are: Beluga Best Seller Duty Free 2016 – Imperial Duty Free Heinemann Beluga Best Seller Duty Free International 2016 – James Richardson, Tel Aviv Ben […]
JAMAICA. Dufry has opened its newly refurbished Montego Bay Duty Free arrivals store at Sangster International Airport in Jamaica. The walk-through store now occupies a total area of 115sq m, compared to the previous 10sq m. Dufry said the targeted product offer included a range of international and local liquors, tobacco, international confectionery, fragrances and […]
Molton Brown has launched a marine-inspired fragrance collection, Coastal Cypress & Sea Fennel, into global travel retail. The collection, created by Carla Chabert, comprises an eau de toilette, bath & shower gel and deodorant. Cypress oil, the lead ingredient, was sourced from Cape York, Australia and is said to be the world’s only naturally blue […]
Beam Suntory has launched a limited-edition travel retail-exclusive Courvoisier gift pack into global travel retail. The gold metal die-cut gift pack, styled on the Eiffel Tower, contains a 1-litre Courvoisier Artisan Edition VSOP Triple Oak bottle. The design enables the case to be used as two candle holders after opening. Shine a light: The Artisan Edition VSOP has […]
USA. John F. Kennedy International Airport Terminal 4 raised over US$87,000 for charity last year via coin donations. JFK International Air Terminal (JFKIAT), the company which operates Terminal 4, partnered with concessions operators to set up more than 30 coin collection boxes throughout the terminal at cash registers and in high traffic areas. The foreign coinage […]
Low cost carrier Ryanair has entered into a flight partnership agreement with Spanish airline Air Europa. The deal, which was announced in late May, will allow its 130 million customers to book Air Europa long haul flights on the Ryanair.com website. From May 26 customers can book Air Europa flights on 20 long haul routes […]
The City of Philadelphia’s Division of Aviation, American Airlines and the other commercial air carriers operating at Philadelphia International Airport (PHL) have reached agreement on a nearly $900 million plan to continue critical improvements and to develop new infrastructure at PHL and Philadelphia Northeast Airport (PNE). The projects include $396 million in maintenance and repairs […]
UAE. Dubai Duty Free has won an award recognising its achievements over the past three decades. The company picked up the Retail Industry Award (Duty Free Stores category) at the India-UAE Business and Social summit for the World’s Greatest Brands 2016-17 Asia & CCC Awards. The event was held recently at The Meydan Hotel in […]
UAE. Dubai Duty Free has hailed the success of a seven-month training programme aimed at new liquor specialists. The programme was introduced in collaboration with PATH Bar School, a training division of Dubai-based alcohol distributor African & Eastern. It included globally-accredited courses from the Wine & Spirit Education Trust (WSET) and The Whiskey Ambassador. According […]
UK. London Gatwick Airport has installed new technology which could assist retailers in making contact with potential customers. Around 2,000 indoor navigation beacons have been positioned across the airport’s two terminals. They enable augmented reality wayfinding, a system which makes it easier for passengers to find their way around the airport. The system, which Gatwick said […]
Germany-based charter operator Air Hamburg is the launch customer for the new Embraer Legacy 650E in a deal that was announced at the 17th European Business Aviation Convention and Exhibition in Geneva on May 22. Air Hamburg will expand its Embraer business jet fleet with an additional order for three new Legacy 650E under a […]
Airbus Corporate Jets has launched a private jet version of its A330neo airliner, which combines new-generation engines and aerodynamic and other improvements that it says will deliver comfort, efficiency and long range. Called the ACJ330neo, it will fly 25 passengers 9,400nm (17,400km) or 20 hours, enough to fly nonstop from Europe to Australia. It features […]
When flight BA7025 took off from Birmingham Airport for Florence, Italy, on May 20 it marked a significant return to regional flying for British Airways. It was the first of four new regional routes launched from the Midlands this weekend and the first time British Airways’ colours have been seen at the airport for a […]
Israel Aerospace Industries’ (IAI) TaxiBot, the semi-robotic pilot-controlled aircraft tractor for dispatch towing, has obtained EASA certification for handling the Airbus A320 aircraft family. TaxiBot, a semi-robotic pilot-controlled vehicle, is designed to transport commercial airline aircraft from terminal gates to the runway and back, without using the airplane’s own engines. TaxiBot started dispatch-towing commercial Lufthansa […]
The current ban on electronic items in cabin baggage which affects flights to the US from eight countries won’t be extended to include services operating from Europe. The decision follows a four-hour meeting between EU and US officials to discuss threats to aviation security which took place in Brussels on May 17. Previously, the US […]
In an effort to visualize the growing number of destinations that can be reached directly from the airport, Stockholm Arlanda Airport has unveiled Open Sky, an installation where data from the world’s air traffic is projected onto a two-meter diameter globe. The data is delivered from Flightradar24 and is projected using three-dimensional projection mapping technique. […]
Smiths Detection, formerly Morpho Detection – Safran, has announced a contract with London Gatwick Airport Limited to supply and service nine high-speed CTX 9800 DSi explosives detection systems (EDS). The move follows a successful trial which took place in early 2016. When fully operational, Gatwick will use CTX9800 machines to screen all In-gauge baggage in […]
Boeing has grounded its entire fleet of new 737 MAX airliners after discovering a potential engine manufacturing problem. The move comes just a week before the first MAX delivery, to Malaysia’s Malindo Air, was set to take place. Although no problems have been found during the type’s extensive 16-month flight test programme, Boeing believes that […]
Delta Air Lines has placed an incremental order for 30 firm A321ceo aircraft. This order follows three previous Delta orders for the Current Engine Option version of the largest Airbus A320 Family member. The airline took delivery of its first A321 in March of last year. Delta now has ordered a total of 112 A321s, […]
German airport operator Fraport AG says it has met its climate protection targets “way ahead of schedule”. The company says its targets, which were set for the year 2020, were achieved in 2016, therefore, it has therefore set itself new climate protection targets (this time for 2030) modeled on the German government’s Climate Action Plan. […]
Ground handling specialist dnata has announced it has reached an agreement with Lynx Holdings LP to acquire its AirLogistix USA cargo handling operations at George Bush Intercontinental Airport Houston (IATA: IAH) in the USA. The 30,000sq ft facility includes the only dedicated perishable cargo facility at Houston airport and is suitable for perishable products including […]
Air Partner, the aviation services group, was recently appointed to charter a return flight from Cape Town to the Atlantic Ocean island of St Helena, after the cancellation of two ship voyages left a number of passengers stranded on the island. The ship that travels between Cape Town and the islands of St Helena and […]
Finnair and Finavia, together with Futurice, have announced they are testing the use of face recognition technology for the check-in process of Finnair flights at Helsinki Airport. The test period began on May 2 and will last until May 23. The companies will gather information on the suitability of face recognition technology in an airport […]
The first service between Glasgow Airport and the Norwegian city of Bergen departed on May 5, provided by Scotland’s airline Loganair. Operating a twice-weekly summer service from Glasgow to ‘the Gateway to the Fjords of Norway’, the regional carrier will connect the two cities for the first time. The route will be operated by a […]
