There were paparazzi blocking the pavement hours before the event began. Inside there were buff boys in tight pink T-shirts serving drinks. There was supermodel Agyness Deyn, working combat chic, flanked by her designer sidekick Henry Holland. Hell, there was even Dancing On Ice judge Jason Gardiner. It could only be a MAC event… But
Miscellaneous
Bound for Port-au-Prince
I’m on my way to Haiti, via an overnight stay at the Hilton Garden Inn Queens Hotel at New York JFK Airport before the early morning flight down to Port-au-Prince in the morning. I have to say that arriving at New York JFK Terminal 7 (the British Airways terminal) was one of the easiest and
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Airports
Sign of the times
It’s good to see first-hand evidence of our industry’s highly efficient lobby. Travelling through Orlando Airport last week en route to London, I visited the Alpha duty and tax free store, a nice, tidy, accessible outlet. The constraints that US airport retailers have to face, though, were plain to see. There’s the painful process of
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Miscellaneous
Scrum down, but Ireland finish on the up
Some of travel retail’s finest (their description) athletes were determined on Saturday that they would not be found wanting, should their countries ever come calling. In the build-up to the eagerly awaited Six Nations rugby clash between England and Ireland at Twickenham, Ireland’s Liam Flood and Dermot Davitt (left, representing the Aer Rianta International and