SAUDI ARABIA. Riyadh Airports Company (RAC) has posted a record-breaking commercial performance at King Khalid International Airport (KKIA) with July duty free revenues surging +12% above the previous monthly high, set in March this year.
Notably, the performance was also +68% ahead of duty free revenues reported for the pre-pandemic month of July 2019. Aelia Duty Free (Lagardère Travel Retail) runs the duty free stores at the airport.
Duty free sales recorded on the successive days of 6, 7 and 8 July were all higher than any previous single days in the history of the airport, which opened in 1983.