Goodbye sign at Heathrow Airport, London, England, in 2018. Photo by Angela Lansbury.
Problem
How do you persuade other airports such as Heathrow to upgrade to the standard of Changi?
Answers
What's New And Welcome In Heathrow?
Heathrow has improved enormously. You drive in to depart and arrive to a sculpture of a globe and planes. You can see the new terminal buildings going up.
Delight's of the Departure Terminal at Heathrow
The pedestrian entrance is a building in front of a building with walkways, high security, very draughty, travel with a woolly hat in winter. Along the moving travelling walkways you pass pictures of the airport through the ages, with pictures of HM The Queen - Queen Elizabeth II, Marilyn Monroe and The Beatles.
Fish pond at Changi airport, in departure, Singapore.
Changi's Arrival Terminal
But it's nothing like the excitement of Changi airport, full of trees and flowers and seasonal displays. Plus the Butterfly Garden - allow time to find it.
From jewelchangiairport.com in article on Jewel Changi airport, in Wikipedia.
If you have already made plans for this year's travel, note down Singapore for 2019. The Jewel Changi Airport should be ready for you to visit by mid 2019.
Changi's New Terminal Five Approaching
What's really impressive is the plans for Changi's terminal 5. You pass it on your way into Singapore from Changi airport, which out Disney's Disney with Singapore's palm trees and water features within the terminals. As you drive away from the airport and into the city you admire the colourful flowering plants festooning the bridges.
Terminal Five Inside
A wonderful video from In The Know By AOL popped up in Facebook. The video shows how the new terminal seems to echo the scale and harmony of Singapore's stunning attracting Gardens By The Bay.
1 A giant waterfall several storeys high - will be the world's largest indoor waterfall.
2 A pedestrian walkway overhead.
3 A mirror maze in a garden.
You can read more in the article on Jewel Changi Airport in Wikipedia. You will be able to see the connection with architect Safdie.
PS
What's it all about? I remember that passengers were asked to send in suggestions for terminal improvement before the last terminal was built. The new one will be bigger than all the others combined. Singapore wants passengers on the lucrative London to Sydney route. Rival stopovers are KL and Thailand. Thailand and Malaysia are bigger countries with more cities and attractions so Singapore must compete with better attractions and a better terminal. Another factor is that air traffic including cargo routes have to increase capacity and modernity to offset any dwindling in shipping routes. Thailand, according to the talk, has been considering cutting horizontally across with a canal. Whether or not any one factor reduces revenue or fails to increase it, Singapore, as ever aims to combine the best of technology with comfort and entertainment.
Useful websites
Singapore Airport Terminal 5
jewelchangiairport.com
https://www.facebook.com/InTheKnowByAOL/videos/851358968353219/UzpfSTY5ODQ2MDU5NjoxMDE2MDMxMTkwNDcwNTU5Nw/
Singapore Airlines
singaporeair.com
The Dreamliner is coming into service shortly. Although those of us travelling in economy won't get to lie flat, we can admire the new facilities aas we walk through the aircraft and tell our friends about what we have seen.
Singapore Tourism
visitsingapore.com
https://www.tripadvisor.com.sg
https://guide.michelin.sg/en/2017-MICHELIN-guide-Singapore-full-results-restaurants
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2 comments:
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