The high street division traded in line with expectations, with slight increase in sales due to favorable publishing in books, the company added.

Airport retailers together with WH Smiths and chemist Boots have been accused of deceptive clients who had been was for safety causes.

“WH Smith feels that only 50pc of its airport mix is VATable and its customer base includes predominantly intra EU travellers and worldwide non-UK ones not exposed to the British Press”, said Tony Shiret, analyst at Espirito Santo.

Boots has stated that it might cease requesting boarding passes whereas WH Smiths stated that it has reminded employees that there isn’t any obligation on clients to point out their boarding passes.

During H2, Travel continued to deliver a strong performance with good sales across all of the company’s core channels reflecting continued investment in our key business initiatives and growth in passenger numbers. “That is not to say that this will not become more of an issue but we feel that it is likely to be a very low single-digit millions type of issue at worst”.

Major publishing sensations this summer such as Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman and E.L. James’ new novel Grey have lead WH Smith to predict better results for the year than analysts had expected.

The chain retailer will announce its full year financial results for the year ending 31st August 2015 in October and has released a trading update before entering into a closed period until that time. Share this text together with your community.