Trends · data through September 2026

Airport & Travel Dining in the United Kingdom

Iceflower tracks 92 stores from 15 airport & travel dining chains in the United Kingdom. The Kitchen grew fastest over the last year, ahead of British Airways and The Bridge.

Rankings come from real card and bank transactions across a panel of 130M+ US and EU consumers. We publish relative growth and rankings, never revenue figures. About the data

Tracked chains
15
Tracked stores
92
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked airport & travel dining chains

Ranked by year-over-year growth of share of tracked local spend. Arrows show movement in the rankings since last year. Each dot in the chart is one tracked chain: bigger market position to the right, faster growth higher up, more tracked stores in a bigger dot. Colors match the store map below. The Kitchen and British Airways sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 T The Kitchen - +7.5%
2 B British Airways logo British Airways - -7.4%
3 T The Bridge - -13.6%
4 T The Atrium - -30.4%
5 T The Pasty Shop - -35.8%
6 P Pumpkin Cafe - -45.4%
  • British Airways
  • British Airways Club World
  • Sonoma
  • The Bridge
  • The Kitchen
  • The Pasty Shop
  • The Atrium
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

92 tracked store locations in the United Kingdom. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • British Airways (3)
  • British Airways Club World (1)
  • Sonoma (1)
  • The Bridge (23)
  • The Kitchen (21)
  • The Pasty Shop (10)
  • The Atrium (5)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 T The Bridge 23
  • 2 T The Kitchen 21
  • 3 P Pumpkin Cafe 15
  • 4 T The Pasty Shop 10
  • 5 T The Atrium 5
  • 6 C Cafe Destino 5
  • 7 B British Airways logo British Airways 3
  • 8 C Ciao 2
  • 9 P Plaza Premium Lounge 2
  • 10 B British Airways Club World 1
  • 11 S Sonoma 1
  • 12 T The Emirates Lounge logo The Emirates Lounge 1
  • 13 E Ember 1
  • 14 E Escape Lounges logo Escape Lounges 1
  • 15 D Dubai Airport Lounge 1

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