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Originally Posted by Robert S
I wasn't aware that they were planning to combine arrivals.
No problem purchasing at Singapore - you just have to follow the procedure correctly (which involves the items being delivered to you at your gate for collection after security). You can't purchase items duty free at a previous port and carry them in your hand luggage through Singapore though, no.
Brochure: http://www.changiairport.com/changiw...uidBanBroc.pdf (note list on page 2, noting that for Australia, large containers will be delivered to the gate holding pens for your collection).
Duty free on arrival is not popular, I would say particularly so in Australia as everything other than trans-Tasman is medium-haul travel at least... people just want to go home. That's why they have the purchase-on-departure/collect-on-arrival system as well as someone standing at the duty free forlornly spruiking "Last chance for duty free! Anyone? anyone?"
Other than that speciality market, there's no general demand for a "shopping experience" on arrival... it's the captive market on departure that they are going for... and they're just catching up with the rest of the world there. |
Yeah quite correct about Singapore and some other airports too. Seems a tad silly, but alas that is a different thread.
As for the development plans at Syndey I was just going off what I recall from the announcements at the time. I had thought that arrivals was being combined too, but looking at the works statement on the Sydney Airport website it isn't 100% clear if that is the case. All it mentions is 3 new belts to cater for A380. Anyone know where they will put them. That being said the two seperate arrivals halls are not that far removed already, so maybe the new belts will essentialy open it to make it one big hall.
23rd March 2008, 05:00 AM
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