The story gets even better. Half an hour later, a beauty adviser enters the back room. “Hello, hello, there’s a man who is worried that someone is stuck in a tunnel!!”
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Better in Basel (and no Bert’s Blues) as Dufry delivers the goods
Bravo Dufry. And bravo Michel for caring – if you’re reading this, I hope you consider my comments (past and present) fair and that in an admittedly different way from you, I do understand retail and I do appreciate the transformation.
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Giving canine passengers a new leash of life at Edmutton Airport
The programme offers special treatment and services tailored for dogs, including a priority check-in line, stress and anxiety services (for those a little hot under the collar after being hounded by security) and access to the lounge with complimentary Terrier water, Alsation wines and soothing music by Bark and Beethoven (Debussy would be banned).
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Hailing a taxi system to drive away airport rip-offs
At Sydney Airport, I made the near-fatal mistake of asking a taxi driver at the wheel of a people carrier if he was an airport hotel pick-up. “Do I f****** look like an airport hotel pick-up mate?” he snarled, marginally less menacing than a Doberman guard dog that had been starved for a month and then offered the opportunity to dine on my left leg.
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A metaphor for India at Mumbai International T2
Mumbai Terminal 2 is becoming a reflection of an emerging and changing India: a place increasingly confident in itself, in its brands, in its service quality and in its future.
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Stirred (and shaken) in India
In the few hours since I stepped off the plane from Heathrow, I have already had the senses well stirred (and occasionally shaken), reminding me that there is nowhere else on earth like India, this country of stunning contrasts.
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(Mid) Field of Dreams: Build it and they will come
From The Moodie Report’s Interim Abu Dhabi Bureau in December I could look out on an airport. There’s nothing unusual about that for me, I often stay at airport hotels for reasons of convenience. What’s unusual about these views (from my room at the Premier Inn to be precise) is the nature of the airport
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Diary of a dispute: Case and coverage closed
Sometimes in publishing there are stories you’d rather not have to write. No matter how neutral your stance and fair your treatment, you know that the subject matter is controversial, perhaps painful to one or more parties.
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From Tribulations to Triumph through the eyes of YS Choi
With South Korea’s leading travel retailers in the news to an unprecedented degree (The Shilla Duty Free’s triumph in the Changi Perfumes & Cosmetics tender; Lotte Duty Free’s win in Guam; and Incheon International Airport’s record duty free sales in 2013), there’s certain to be widespread interest in a fascinating new book that examines the
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A day of triumph and loss, delight and despair at Changi
“If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same…” – Rudyard Kipling Well my last Blog wasn’t so far from the mark after all… For, just a few hours later, this time I CAN reveal the results of the Singapore Changi Airport duty free liquor & tobacco and
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‘Where’s Martin?’ contest turns into a tale of the unexpected
We had lots of entries in our ‘Where’s Martin’ contest, offering a bottle of Cloudy Bay Sauvignon Blanc (from Marlborough, New Zealand) to the reader who could name the location shown in a series of fantastic photos from a fantastic place below I visited last week in the line of duty. The close-up shots of the cuisine
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Homing in on the Grange
I often talk about setting up my interim Moodie Report bureaus but this one is more interim than most. I’m in transit at Hong Kong International Airport for around 90 minutes, over half the way along the long, long haul to Adelaide and Sydney, where I’ll be attending a major Treasury Wine Estates event featuring
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Dan to the rescue as Kangaroo catches Melbourne Airport officials on the hop
Tie me kangaroo down, sport Tie me Dan-garoo down Tie me kangaroo down, sport Tie me Dan-garoo down Melbourne Airport officials are looking into a major security incident yesterday morning when a lone male kangaroo, without a boarding card, managed to make its way into a chemist’s store on the terminal’s second floor. Sources say