How often so you see something truly innovative in the commercial offer at an airport, something that adds value to the business, entertains passengers and encourages spend? Not often enough, we think, but Moscow Domodedovo’s DVD Cinema Bar concept is one such idea – we haven’t seen anything quite like it at any other airport. The idea
Airports
All Black in the investment community?
Kia Ora. The Maori greeting beckons arriving passengers into Auckland International Airport – ‘where New Zealand touches the world’. World Cup Rugby fever has struck here. As one alights off the plane at Auckland Airport the Air New Zealand walkway features giant-sized photographs of members of the country’s famous, iconic rugby team, the All Blacks
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Events
Who will be the Boss at Rugby’s World Cup?
What’s a girl about town to do ? Especially when she has an acute sense of fashion (and the responsibility of championing one of its great names) and when she’s stuck for a choice of outfit for one of the great social occasions of the year? Followers of rugby – and there are many in
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Miscellaneous
Remembering Anji
Please remember Anji and Dr Reddy and the NIMS team when you’re thinking whether to support the October 5 travel retail charity dinner in Hong Kong – ‘Turning Tears into Smiles’.
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Airports
A six-pack with a difference
Bahrain Duty Free has sold plenty of six-packs in its time. Usually cans of Heineken or Amstel, cartons of Nido milk powder or multi-packs of best-selling confectionery such as Jewels. But the multi-award winning retailer has really outdone itself with its latest mega-promotion – The Magnificent Six x 2. The six is a reference not to
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Airlines
The icing on the cake
The old saying ‘you can’t have your cake and eat it’ obviously doesn’t apply to Korean Air. For cake was most definitely on the menu last month when the Seoul-based airline – the world’s most successful inflight retailer – celebrated setting an all-time single flight sales high of US$40,968. The result, achieved on an Incheon
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Events
A smile that lights up Hyderabad
The little boy looks shyly at the ground as his mother is asked to introduce him to me. He is six years old, with beautiful, big brown eyes. His name is Anji and tomorrow he will face a defining moment in his life – he will undergo surgery to repair the cleft lip and palate
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Airports
The Moodie BLOG in India: Part 7 – Hitting new heights in Bangalore
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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Miscellaneous
The Moodie BLOG in India: Part 6 – “There’s nothing as exciting as this”
Everywhere you go in this pulsating country the growth curves, whether economic indicators or passenger traffic increases, never cease to amaze. Indira Gandhi International Airport, a public private partnership initiative between GMR Group, Airports Authority of India, Fraport, Eraman Malaysia and India Development Fund, is a dramatic case in point. Delhi is already India’s second-busiest airport, handling
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Miscellaneous
The Moodie BLOG in India: Part 5 – Mall mania
The mall and hypermarket signs are everywhere – MGF Mega City, Spencer’s, Grand Mall, The Metropolitan, City Centre. Within a few minutes walk of my hotel in Gurgaon just outside Delhi, there’s a frenzy of retail activity.‘Mall mania’ has hit India and wherever you look there are huge advertising signs promoting the latest opening or
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Miscellaneous
The Moodie BLOG in India: Part 4 – Smoke rings over Delhi
The taste of Indian consumers is moving inexorably upmarket, almost by the day. As noted in an earlier BLOG, Alpha Future says high-end malt whiskies and Montblanc writing instruments are selling out as fast as they can be stocked at Delhi International Airport. The same phenomenon can be seen in the shopping malls and upmarket bars
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People
The Moodie BLOG in India: Part 3 – Mr Dryburgh I presume?
Delhi is a big place. I mean really big. Conservative estimates put the population at well over 13 million, a figure that is soaring each year. So the chances of a visitor to the city bumping into anyone they knew is distant – about one in, say, 13 million… But that’s exactly what happened during The Moodie
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People
The Moodie BLOG in India: Part 2 – Vasco da Gama reborn
Cows, sacred creatures in India, stroll in and out of the teeming traffic, relying perhaps on more than a little divine intervention to spare them from some of the world’s most hair-rasing driving.