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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.
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]
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.
In 1960, American entrepreneurs Charles Feeney [5] and Robert Warren Miller [6] founded Tourists International, which later became Duty Free Shoppers (DFS), in Hong Kong.In 1962, two DFS stores were opened at the international airports in Hong Kong and Honolulu, the first duty-free shop in the United States.
Avolta AG (until November 2023: Dufry AG) is a Swiss-based travel retailer which operates duty-free and duty-paid shops and convenience stores in airports, cruise lines, seaports, railway stations and central tourist areas.
Name Location State GLA (m 2) Opened Developer/owner Website A10-Center: Wildau: Brandenburg: 66000: 1996 (2011) www.a10center.de Einkaufscenter NOC: Weiden: Rhineland-Palatinate
In Munich, all flights were either canceled or postponed between 6 a.m. and noon (0500-1100 GMT), with the airport warning that many flights scheduled for later in the day might also be affected b
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