[craigwatson]

buy at DXB airport duty free, not onboard, much better selection and better price, cheaper than LHR and SYD, and 90 minute connection is loads of time in DXB even if you are delayed, you will have to walk past about 4 or 5 duty free shops to get to your next gate anyways so it won’t take much time.

[PaulRWoods]

Manila has also a duty free shop on arrival.
In Kairo you have a duty free allowance for the shop at the airport and the purchase will be entered into your passport.

[AB123456]

I think the limit is 2 litres into Australia. There is a shop in Dubai Duty Free. It has a pretty impressive selection of wines, spirits and beers, actually better than London.

[LuganoPirate]

Johannesburg, Cape Town and Zurich all allow duty free purchases on arrival.

[WoburnMan]

foreignexchange – buy it in Dubai! 90 minutes is fine you’ll be in plenty of time for your next connection…Safe travels.

[VintageKrug]

..as does Heathrow! Here’s a fiver, in case you’re splashing out:

http://wdfonline.com/WDFVouchers2011/5Q1-CLJ/Saveextraattheairportweb.aspx?result=success

[NorseFlyer]

And many airports in Norway has duty-free on arrival (including Oslo and Bergen). They’re quite busy, large and well stocked.

An anecdote; the airport operator Avinor relies on this income to subsidise the operation of 30++ STOL-airports in Norway.

[Age_of_Reason]

Be VERY careful where you buy if intending to transit to domestic at LHR (or elsewhere similar hubs). ‘Security’ has a list of places they trust, and EVEN in sealed bags duty free may not be allowed to transit to EDi or anywhere. You can take your ‘risk’ onto a London bus or Heathrow Express, but not on to Scotland.

Any plausible risk assessment would place VERY high emphasis on suspect packages being taken onto buses or tube (because they’ve been targeted, recently and effectively). So t’s about the money, not the passenger and their safety.

[Nowmedia]

I flew DBX to SYD last month on QF. Duty free is taken from you at the gate and stowed underneath. Didn’t appear at SYD and took a week and a number of phone calls to arrive. The bottles were intact but the box was badly damaged.

I’d order online and collect on arrival in SYD. The grief involved in a DBX purchase isn’t worth the marginal savings.

[SimonS1]

I believe the arrivals shops at Heathrow are duty paid not duty free.

[PerthWA]

Buy it on arrival in Sydney. You have to march through the inbound duty free section before you get to immigration anyway and for the sake of the extra coupe of A$ per bottle, its worth shopping on arrival. UNLESS of course you’re being asked to bring something special in terms of a whiskey etc as the selection is relatively standard in the spirit line. Don’t buy any wine in Australia duty free. It’s cheaper retail in what will be your local sydney bottle shop!
You are allowed 2.25L of alcohol into Australia per person.
Lugging it from Heathrow is an (expensive) pain.
Oh and Singapore has always had an inbound duty free.
Enjoy oz!

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