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A new passenger terminal was inaugurated on 30 August 2013, and became fully operational in September 2013. [3] The structure of the New Airport Terminal is designed after the "Traveller's palm", a tropical plant that grows on Mauritius. It is connected to the existing terminal (refurbishment began in 2014) and has a capacity of 4 million ...
International Civil Aviation Organization. 2006-01-12. "UN Location Codes: Mauritius". UN/LOCODE 2006-2. UNECE. 2007-04-30. - includes IATA codes; Great Circle Mapper: Airports in Mauritius - IATA and ICAO codes; World Aero Data: Mauritius - ICAO codes and coordinates
An Air Mauritius Airbus A330-200 at Perth Airport in 2014. Air Mauritius was set up in June 1967 (). [1] The airline had no aircraft at the beginning, and in January 1972 (), Air India started flying the Port Louis–Bombay–Port Louis run on Air Mauritius' behalf using Boeing 707 aircraft; this was Air Mauritius' first route. [2]
A British Airtours Boeing 707 leased to Air Mauritius at Orly Airport in 1978. The company was established on 14 June 1967 by Air France, BOAC and the Government of Mauritius, with a 27.5% stake each; the balance was held by Rogers and Co, the general sales agent for Air France and BOAC in Mauritius.
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.
Dependencies and other territories Ascension Island, see RAF Ascension Island Canary Islands - List of airlines of Spain Ceuta has no airlines operating from within the territory
[5] Dubai Duty Free – the company responsible for the duty-free operations at Dubai International Airport. DDF became the largest airport retailer in the world in terms of sales in 2012. [6] DDF represents over 5% of global duty-free sales, [7] generating 2014 revenues of $1.91 billion [8] and 2016 revenues of $1.85 billion. [9]
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