Indian aviation is constantly hitting new heights and smashing growth records. A ground-to-air revolution is being played out here and everyone wants a part of the action. The Times of India today described it as ‘zoom power’, and revealed that over 100 new airports are to be built in the country in so-called ‘tier-2’ cities (which
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The Moodie BLOG in India: Part 1 – Delhi
The Moodie Report – and The Moodie BLOG – have arrived in India. Over the next few days we’re making a whistlestop tour of some of this big, vibrant country’s most exciting airport developments. We’ll be taking in Delhi, Bangalore, Mumbai and Hyderabad in our research for the forthcoming BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China) issue
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Misery – true airport misery
Nashville Metropolitan Airport has just been rated ‘7th least miserable airport in the USA’, according to a report in The Tennesean. As accolades go, that probably ranks somewhere alongside the performance of the Irish swimming team one year at the Olympics, summed up by a commentator who reported in his daily summary: “No Irishman drowned in
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Not nice work when you get it
Next time you’re bemoaning your lot as you load your lap-top, shoes and belt through the security screening machine, spare a thought for the staff on duty. These are the people given the thankless job of trying to keep our airports and aircraft safe, the ones charged with enforcement of often ludicrous government policies that
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LAGs, Queue Combers and Docket Pluckers… another duty free day down under
When it comes to concise, colourful and descriptive use of the English language, no-one can live with the Aussies. Not only did they come up with the decade’s great acronym to save us all from having to keep writing out ‘liquids, aerosols and gels’ – now known as LAGs for short (and probably forever) – but
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A laid-back retailer-airport relationship
The relationship between airport authority and concessionaire is one of the most critical, yet often under-rated elements of airport retail success. So chances are that when you find an airport with thriving commercial revenues, the human relationships are in pretty good shape too. Nowhere is that more the case than at Toronto Pearson International Airport,
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Hong Kong SkyMart opens the new trunk line
Airport Authority Hong Kong’s ebullient Commercial Director Hans Bakker sees the airport as a modern day cross-roads. But in this case one that brings together all forms of transport – planes and boats and trains, as well as cars and helicopters. And knowing Hans, I wouldn’t count out submarines coming next… With all those modes
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BAA = Brilliant Airport Advertising
Every travel retailer or airport executive affected by the aviation security crisis should sit up and take notice of a new advertising campaign just launched by BAA. The Moodie Report has been critical on several occasions about the inadequate consumer communication put in place since the 10 August terror alert and the subsequent crackdowns on
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Free of duty to report accurately?
If the politicians can’t get it right and the journalists can’t get it right… well you know you’re in the UK. Since the 10 August terror alert we reckon the overwhelming majority of articles in the UK consumer media on what can be carried through airport security and onboard an aircraft have been inaccurate. That is a damning
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In the hold!
Confiscations under the new EU aviation security regulations nearly claimed their greatest victim to date recently – the Dubai Duty Free Golf World Cup. The magnificent trophy was in the hands of American golfing ace John Kammerman of Imperial Tobacco, en route from his triumph in Dubai through London Heathrow and home to Singapore. With it
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A question of taste
Virtually any delegate attending the recent TFWA World Exhibition would have had the opportunity to visit what is in our eyes one of the best gourmet stores in travel retail as well as one of the best examples of Destination Merchandise. We’re talking about the quite wonderful Hediard store at Nice airport. Hediard, of course,
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Keeping your mother away from the vodka
Danish liquor dynamo Torben Vedel Andersen has launched an intriguing request via The Moodie Report Cannes Blog. Not content with just showing off his new incarnation as Regional Director of Danzka Vodka-owner Belvedere Duty Free (part of the CL World Brands group), Andersen is seeking silver padlocks. And he needs them fast. His funky new
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Vespucci takes a new voyage of discovery in Abu Dhabi
There’s a new brand in town and it may be coming to a duty free store near you. But this is a brand with a difference – it’s been developed by one of the industry’s leading retailers, Abu Dhabi Duty Free. The brand is called Vespucci – a nice touch as it is inspired by