Cairo Airport Duty Free (CADF) General Manager, Magued Mounir has confirmed to TRBusiness that Cairo Airport Company (CAC) will be issuing tenders for duty free, F&B and other retail concessions, shortly. 

Mounir has informed TRBusiness that while the tenders are open to all retailers, CADF and EgyptAir have made it clear that they are interested in increasing their retail space at the airport. EgyptAir is a state-owned company, 100% owned by the Government of Egypt.

Following the completion of retail developments at Terminal 2,  Mounir tells TRBusiness that there will be a ‘soft opening’ taking place in January 2016.

When fully reopened Terminal 2 will serve Sky Team airlines – which include Russian Airlines, Air France, KLM Airlines, Middle East Airlines and Saudi Airlines. It will also serve British Airways, Qatar Airways, Royal Jordanian, Gulf Air, Kuwait Air, Emirates, Oman Air and Etihad.

 

“All the mentioned airlines are now located in T1 and will be transferred to T2,” says Mounir who tells TRBusiness that the total number of passengers served by the terminal is close to 4m.

“T2 started its renovation processes on 2009, and all duty free shop operators have had valid contracts since then,” adds Mounir. “They had to freeze these contracts until the end of the renovation and will resume them again after the reopening.”

According to Mounir there are two core duty free packages; one comprises 597sq m airside and 970sq m landside. The second comprises 325sq m airside and 980sq m landside.

 

Mounir says there are four food and beverage packages; the first package includes 780sq m, spread across landside and airside while the second package totals 417sq m, again spread across both landside and airside.

 

The third package covers 680sq m and the fourth package is spread across eleven areas equal to 1,541sq m, “most of them in the last minute airside shops” says Mounir.

Regarding other retail (duty paid) most of the areas are located airside and known as ‘last minute & arrival before immigration’ with a total of 1,067sq m. Mounir specifies that there is a five-year contract term for these retail concessions.

Mounir pointed out that this tender is open, so any retailer is welcome to enter – providing they meet certain criteria, which will be provided by CAC. “For the time being Cairo Airport Duty Free and EgyptAir are interested to increase their areas at the airport,” adds Mounir.

 

To obtain key traveller statistics and a bespoke Cairo Airport retail report provided by Counter Intelligence Retail (CIR), click here.