Australian travellers are paying almost twice as much at domestic terminals for common products compared to buying the same items at the supermarket, according to new research.

Compare the Market’s Chris Ford spoke to 6PR Afternoons host Julie-Anne Sprague and said hand sanitizer packed one of the biggest price hikes at the airport, costing a whopping 150 per cent more compared to the price at the grocery store.

“In the spectrum of need and I need it now and I don’t have it,  maybe we are getting stung a little bit extra,” Mr Ford said.

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