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Less things filling up my international flights seat pocket!
End of an era for duty-free shopping on Qantas flights
End of an era for duty-free shopping on Qantas flights
I also won't miss it, especially when the prices sometimes seemed not much different to retail prices on the ground.
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This!One other use of duty free is when you want to take a bottle with you on holiday - e.g. if you're going somewhere where liquor is expensive and/or it's not easy to get your favourite tipple. Due to LAG restrictions, you can only bring stuff from home if you're willing to pack it in your checked luggage - which adds weight and can risk breakage. Buying duty free can get around this.
There are actually some bargains to be had in the duty free when it comes to buying spirits. For example, as shown above, a 2 x 1 L pack of Bombay Sapphire is $73.50 at Melbourne Airport ($3.67 per 100 mL), compared to 700 mL for $40 in Dan Murphy's ($5.71 per 100 mL). That's a saving of 36%, and sometimes they genuinely do have offers of 2 L for $65 at the airport, which means the saving is even greater. Similarly with Four Pillars - $64.99 for 1 L in the duty free compared to $73.99 for 700 mL in Dan Murphy's - a saving of 38.5%.
On board, it can be even cheaper. The last time I flew with EY I got 1 L of Bombay Sapphire for $26, which was a saving of 55% compared to Dan Murphy's.
It's true that some other products, notably wine, can actually be more expensive than in normal retailers, but don't dismiss the whole concept because of that!
One other use of duty free is when you want to take a bottle with you on holiday - e.g. if you're going somewhere where liquor is expensive and/or it's not easy to get your favourite tipple. Due to LAG restrictions, you can only bring stuff from home if you're willing to pack it in your checked luggage - which adds weight and can risk breakage. Buying duty free can get around this.
But in Florida I can get 1.75l of Bombay Sapphire for just under $A40.
Clearly the box is an extra - $8.50 worth
G&T's must be high volume comodity in Florida... oh wait.. yeah that makes sense
I don't mind duty free it has it's place. I recently did a daytrip through AKL and picked up some booze for my boss at a fair saving for him and no sweat for me to bring back so hey why not? win/win.
I do agree the shos are annoying to go through, specially at places like MEL or AKL where you're forced through them just to get to the gates and lounges, but that's of course purely by design. I just ignore them unless I have a specific target in mind.
As for inflight yeah can understand why it's being dropped. I never buy in flight.. maybe I should on my LAX trip next week just for fun lol
That is highly misleading and deceptive conduct.Exactly my point - but not one which was highlighted until payment-time. When I pointed this out, I was told I was mistaken and that the price label was in the middle of the display and didn't relate to that shelf. By this time, there was a A380 size queue behind me, hence I took the photo next time through, just to prove the point to myself.
If this isn't deceptive conduct then I don't know what is.
Add in the cc fee; add in the bag-fee ... Welcome to Corporate Australia!!
Regards,
BD
Tongue in cheek that you mention "a bit of a profit", I hope, as you are "really" not supposed to resell those items, as they don't have the duty/GST levied on them.Ive made a bit of a profit reselling some of the limited edition packaged booze that I bought at duty free.
The only time I have bought a double pack of 1L spirits, the 2 for $xx included the double packs and scanned at the reduced price. Does OP of photo have a higher res version with T&Cs visible?That is highly misleading and deceptive conduct.