From January to August, the sales revenue of Xiamen Airport's in-flight duty-free shops exceeded 10 million yuan, setting a new historical high for the same period

Hello, I would like a bottle of whiskey. "On September 2nd, on the MF806 flight returning from Vancouver to Xiamen, Mr. Yang purchased a bottle of duty-free liquor from the duty-free shop on board." It's all duty-free, you can buy it directly on the plane, saving you from queuing up at the airport duty-free shop. "From January to August this year, Xiamen Airport Customs supervised the sales of Xiamen Airport's duty-free shops, which exceeded 10 million yuan, reaching 10.342 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 0.94% and setting a new historical high for the same period.

On board duty-free shops are institutions that carry out duty-free sales business on international and regional airline routes, providing duty-free goods such as tobacco and alcohol for inbound and outbound flight passengers. In 2015, Xiamen Airlines launched a pilot program for in-flight duty-free shops at Xiamen Airport. The sales model includes online and offline purchasing, pre booking through online platforms, and pick-up after boarding. The main duty-free products include tobacco, alcohol, cosmetics, food, and electronic products.

At present, Xiamen Airlines operates over 30 duty-free routes on board (including Xiamen and Fuzhou routes), covering international flights of Xiamen Airlines that last for more than 2.5 hours. This year, the duty-free business on board continues to improve, especially with outstanding sales performance on intercontinental routes. At the same time, thanks to innovative business models and digital information upgrades, the company can conduct big data analysis based on the purchasing habits and preferences of passengers on different routes. In the future, the company will also plan a larger warehouse at the new airport to enrich the variety and categories to meet the diverse shopping needs of passengers, "said Xue Bin, the director of Xiamen Airlines' duty-free and duty-free goods Co., Ltd. Xiamen route operations.

To support the development of duty-free business on board, Xiamen Airport Customs has innovated online approval for duty-free goods allocation, inbound and outbound operations, and other related businesses, achieving real-time transmission of sales lists and effectively ensuring uninterrupted supply of duty-free goods on board; At the same time, a fully covered video surveillance network will be established, adopting a "central cloud inspection+on-site precise verification" mode to achieve full logistics monitoring and visual loading and unloading of duty-free goods from the warehouse to the cabin, significantly improving the turnover efficiency of duty-free goods. Multiple duty-free goods business monitoring models will be established based on the internal control platform to real-time grasp the supply, return, and sales data, which not only facilitates precise customs supervision, but also helps in-flight duty-free shops enhance their sales competitiveness. This model reduces the declaration time of enterprises by more than 70% and shortens the replenishment cycle of popular products by 50%.

From January to August this year, Xiamen Airport Customs supervised a total of 26 flight routes and 4638 loaded flights operated by Xiamen Airlines China Duty Free Products Co., Ltd. in Xiamen, with year-on-year growth of 3.7% and 4.3% respectively. With the further increase of international flights at Xiamen Port, we will continue to optimize our regulatory measures to ensure timely and sufficient supply of duty-free goods, further supporting the vigorous development of new aviation consumption formats, "said Zheng Zhe, Chief of the Logistics Supervision Department of Xiamen Airport Customs. (Written by He Juelin and Zhang Yueying)