Lagardère Travel Retail opened it’s new commercial area at Rome’s Fiumicino Airport this week, with it’s 1,850sq m Aelia Duty Free store being the pick of the new stores. Dag Rasmussen, Chairman and CEO of Lagardère Travel Retail said: “We are extremely pleased to reinforce our historical partnership with Fiumicino Airport and to demonstrate the […]

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Qatar Duty Free have teamed up with HMSHost International to open a brand new open air food market called Harvest Market inside the five star terminal at Hamad International Airport. Walter Seib, CEO of HMSHost International said: “This partnership with one of the fastest growing airports in the Gulf, mark a significant milestone in our strategy […]

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M1nd-set have compiled some data on whether travellers research duty free before they fly. In figures compiled from over 4,000 interviews with travellers, it turns out that over 50% of Chinese travellers will research their potential duty free purchases before they fly and that more than half will also use the airport’s WiFi to check […]

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Mumbai Airport unveiled it’s newest store today at Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport Terminal 2 – a showroom for Harley Davidson gear called “Mach-1”. The store will sell a range of Harley Davidson themed products such as boots, helmets, caps and t-shirts. A spokesperson for Mumbai International Airport Limited (MIAL) said: “The launch of this merchandise-only […]

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Finavia have announced that during 2016, passenger volumes at their airports increased by 3.5% to reach an all-time high. A total of 20,786,846 passengers travelled through their airports in 2016, with an impressive 71.2 million at Helsinki Airport. 26% of these passengers were on domestic flights, whilst the remaining 74% were on international ones – an increase of […]

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Helsinki Airport has released statistics about all the products sold at their airport during 2016. Airport operator Finavia said Chinese travellers were the biggest spenders at the airport, and the number of Chinese passengers increased +7.5% in 2016. The most popular product groups among Chinese passengers last year were cosmetics, jewellery, watches and fashion, with European […]

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AeroMobile is the company that launched inflight 3G mobile data back in 2015 and has since seen increases in it’s takeup year on year. They allow passengers to use their own mobiles and tablets to call, text and use the internet. Since launching in December 2015, they have reported a 160% increase in inflight mobile […]

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