PHL Ennui Fosters Retail Success
At least one select group seems to be making good use of the countless life-hours wasted by stranded passengers at Philly International: purveyors of high-end tchotchkes, guilt-assuaging baubles and slightly-better-than-chain-quality food.
In a press release today, airport retail management firm MarketPlace Redwood, L.P. trumpets the runways-to-riches stories of four small businesses — including a watch and fountain pen seller and a cell phone cart — that are leveraging their PHL success into locations at airports nationwide. “With 31.7 million passengers a year,” the release notes, “Philadelphia International Airport (PHL) provides retailers with an ideal customer base to build a profitable business.”
Airlines themselves, of course, excepted. — Timothy Haas
“Philadelphia International Airport Tenants Soar to Success” [BusinessWire]
At least one select group seems to be making good use of the countless life-hours wasted by stranded passengers at Philly International: purveyors of high-end tchotchkes, guilt-assuaging baubles and slightly-better-than-chain-quality food.
In a press release today, airport retail management firm MarketPlace Redwood, L.P. trumpets the runways-to-riches stories of four small businesses — including a watch and fountain pen seller and a cell phone cart — that are leveraging their PHL success into locations at airports nationwide. “With 31.7 million passengers a year,” the release notes, “Philadelphia International Airport (PHL) provides retailers with an ideal customer base to build a profitable business.”
Airlines themselves, of course, excepted. — Timothy Haas
“Philadelphia International Airport Tenants Soar to Success” [BusinessWire]
Philadelphia International Airport was involved in an embarrassing homeland security incident last week when it detained seven-year-old Javaid Iqbal because his name resembles that of a 39-year-old Pakistani terror suspect. This was big news internationally, as it pointed both to potential problems with the U.S.’s terror-fighting policies and a possible profiling situation. But if you check with the local media — or even airport staff — Iqbal’s accidental detainment appears never to have happened.
