San Diego Airport to offer seven-year duty free contract under revised bid terms

USA. San Diego International Airport, which is tendering its duty free contract, is to offer a seven-year concession term rather than five as originally stated. The San Diego County Regional Airport Authority revised its RFP solicitation on Thursday. The lease agreement with the winning bidder will now run from 1 June 2018, with an end date of 31 May 2025.

The airport has extended the contract length to seven years, with Duty Free Americas the incumbent

As reported, the airport is seeking proposals from potential partners for the duty free concession at Terminal 2 West.

The incumbent is Duty Free Americas. The company had sales of US$506,956 in 2016, according to the airport’s RFP documents.

San Diego Airport handled 20.7 million passengers in 2016, of which 762,156 were international. The airport has non-stop international flights from T2 to Canada, the UK, Mexico and Japan. Non-stop services to Germany and Switzerland are scheduled to begin this summer.

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