A tale of two travel retail salespeople

He shrugs his shoulders and looks away. Let me repeat those seemingly bland words. He shrugs his shoulders and looks away.

So Martin Petchey, do you always drink your duty free gin neat?

Martin probably went through more reshuffles than a dealer at the World Poker Championships but generally survived, professionalism, integrity and, not least, dry wit, intact.

Destination Delhi as T3 opening looms

The Moodie Report is in Delhi, where we’ll be helping to chair a GMR conference on the exciting new Terminal 3 at Delhi Indira Gandhi International Airport which opens in a few months, in plenty of time for September’s Commonwealth Games. First I had to fly out of another T3 – at London Heathrow. I

Airports

February 2, 2009

Bargain basement with Bushmills back label

En route to New Delhi on Sunday, via Abu Dhabi International Airport, I flew – as usual – out of London Heathrow Airport. I spend a lot of time at Heathrow and just about know every centimetre by heart. Generally the retailing is of a good standard but Terminal 3’s once stand-out liquor section is looking tired

Airports

December 14, 2008

Getting the balance right in Glasgow

Of all the ‘regional’ airports we’ve travelled through over the past couple of years, we think Glasgow Airport offers one of the very best duty free shopping experiences. The Moodie Report was at the Scottish airport recently to witness the opening of the latest phase of an ambitious £31 million terminal expansion. And while we

Miscellaneous

August 23, 2008

The eyes have it as Miles for Smiles ‘fun run’ turns into a weighting game

When you’re a top-class athlete, every single gram of additional weight counts. Or so such athletes tell me. Despite the achilles tendon-linked glitch in my training schedule for the ‘Miles for Smiles’ 10k fun run in Dubai on 22 November on behalf of children’s cleft charity The Smile Train*, I have been working hard on

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