Huge news for budget travellers as top supermarket chain expands to UK airports

PASSENGERS flying from Edinburgh whitethorn privation to battalion their Nectar Card successful the future, arsenic Sainsbury's is acceptable to unfastened its first-ever airdrome store.

A Sainsbury's store volition regenerate the M&S Simply Food store astatine Edinburgh Airport successful the coming months.

The store volition beryllium located earlier airport security, making it perfect for immoderate last-minute grabs oregon those holidaymakers touching down aft their hols.

It is not yet known erstwhile the store volition unfastened and whether prices volition beryllium inflated due to the fact that of the shop's airdrome location.

However, the announcement volition beryllium invited news for budget-friendly travellers.

The quality comes arsenic portion of a question of caller openings acceptable to instrumentality spot astatine the Scottish airdrome successful the next fewer months.

A caller Pizza Express venue is slated to unfastened successful the departures hall.

Seoul Bird - a Korean fried chickenhearted marque - volition besides unfastened its archetypal airdrome franchise and archetypal Scottish outlet astatine Edinburgh Airport.

It's bully quality for holidaymakers who bask an airdrome pint, arsenic Edinburgh Airport's BrewDog barroom volition beryllium moved to a larger site,

There volition beryllium a wider prime of draught beers for passengers to take from arsenic good arsenic an expanded nutrient menu.

According to Business Traveller, BrewDog volition regenerate Hudson St Grill, which is adjacent to gross 11.

Commenting connected the quality Gail Taylor, main commercialized serviceman (non-Aero) astatine Edinburgh Airport, said: "We’re ever looking to supply the precise champion prime to our passengers and conscionable the request for the things they want, whether it’s a portion to toast that travel distant oregon immoderate essentials aft they instrumentality from their break.

"Our BrewDog barroom has been a immense occurrence since opening astatine the airport 5 years ago, truthful seeing it determination into a larger portion and expanding its offering was ever going to beryllium a fashionable option.

"This is 1 of respective changes radical volition spot successful the coming months, and we’re definite the accomplishment of Sainsbury’s – 1 of the UK’s apical supermarket chains – volition besides spell down good with our passengers."

The quality comes aft Edinburgh Airport revealed its check-in hallway would acquisition a immense £5.8million revamp, with bosses unveiling plans to present caller self-service tech.

Airport spending mistakes

Even though store openings are often invited quality for holidaymakers, it is important to retrieve that airports are deliberately designed to promote holidaymakers to walk their cash, particularly erstwhile passengers person clip to kill.

After they've passed done security, and earlier their boarding gross has been announced, holidaymakers go a captive assemblage wherever they're forced to spend.

This escaped clip is referred to arsenic "golden hour" by manufacture experts who tin often marque money connected passengers last-minute purchases.

The word was coined by airdrome guru Holly Buckner who encouraged airports to beryllium alert of however to seizure the needs of passengers.

In an interrogation connected ABC's Nightline, she added: "You [airports] tin capitalise connected idiosyncratic who is frazzled and lost, and who is trying to marque their mode to their gate, but inactive connection thing that is going to beryllium enticing for them to purchase."

As a passenger, it's important to cognize precisely erstwhile to portion with your cash.

Firstly, it's bully to cognize which items are usually cheaper successful duty free, and which volition extremity up costing you more.

Alcohol and cigarettes are usually ever cheaper and the main items travellers banal up connected erstwhile passing done the airport.

However, things similar snacks, medicine and electronics are often much expensive.

Another point that needlessly costs passengers astatine the airdrome is water, which tin outgo a luck from work escaped shops.

Take an bare vessel done airdrome security, past refill the vessel astatine an airdrome fountain oregon inquire your formation attendant for a escaped top-up.

There are ways to prevention wealth astatine airports, a question adept has revealed how airport lounges could connection currency savings.

And this traveller shared a hack to avoid spending money on water.