After four successful years under the banner "BIA Christmas Shopping Festival" this year AASL has come up with a fresh name to this seasonal promotion - "Airport Christmas Shopping Festival", giving a live shopping experience to departing and arriving passengers through country's main gateway Bandaranaike International Airport BIA) and also extending this wonderful experience to the passengers getting on board and off board from the second gateway Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport (MRIA) as well.

This "Airport Christmas Shopping Festival" is organized as a collective endeavor by concessionaires at two airports and AASL. The inaugural Christmas Shopping Festival was held in 2010 and since then BIA Christmas shopping festival had grown into an annual glorious experience, towards which both passengers and concessionaires at airport look forward to each year.

The objective of this Shopping Festival is to promote Sri Lanka as shopping destination. When a passenger enters for departure or arrival, AASL wants to confer that Sri Lanka is one of the best places for shopping.

Other intentions are to reward the passengers passing through BIA and MRIA whilst enhancing sales at duty free shops at these airport.

Any passenger making purchases of US$ 10 or more at any of the outlets in the departure and transit area or arrival duty free complex will be eligible for the raffle draw. In addition, a purchase of US$50 or more will also entitle passengers to play a Mini Golf game and win instant prizes. This year grand prize of the raffle draw will be a brand new Chery J13 car sponsored by IDEAL Chery Automobiles. Nation Trust Bank and Dialog are the sponsors of this event for another year.