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Brendan O'Regan established the world's first duty-free shop at Shannon Airport in Ireland in 1947; [6] it remains in operation today. Designed to provide a service for trans-Atlantic airline passengers typically travelling between Europe and North America whose flights stopped for refuelling on outbound and inbound legs of their journeys, it was an immediate success and has been copied worldwide.
King Power – the largest duty-free retailer in Thailand, its duty-free shopping mall in Bangkok's central business district covers over 12,000 m 2, [13] and it has branches at Suvarnabhumi Airport and Thailand's other major airports. In 2015, King Power launched an online site selling duty-free and duty-paid items. [14]
Alpha Airport Shopping has had a presence in airports in the United Kingdom in different guises since the very early days of airport retailing in 1955, [5] while World Duty Free was founded by Heathrow Airport Holdings (BAA) to run tax and duty free operations in all its airports in the United Kingdom.
The theoretical maximum number of codes is 17,576, and you don’t need to be an airport to get one; London Paddington station is QQP, because of its status as one end of the Heathrow Express.
In February 2017, Transavia announced the closure of their entire base at Munich Airport by October 2017 after only a year of service due to a change in their business strategy and negative economic outlook. [17] Munich Airport's dynamic growth continued in 2018 with new traffic records and an all-time high of 46.2 million passengers.
Rank City Airport Location Code (IATA/ICAO) Total passengers Monthly rank change % change 1. Dubai: Dubai International Airport: Al Garhoud, Dubai, United Arab Emirates: DXB/OMDB ...
UNECE. 14 September 2012. – includes IATA codes "Airports in Germany". Great Circle Mapper. – IATA and ICAO codes "Airports in Germany". World Aero Data. Archived from the original on January 5, 2013. – ICAO codes and airport data
Munich International Airport ... London Heathrow Airport: London: England: ... Aviation Safety Network – IATA and ICAO airport codes