See Changi Airport's Amazing Terminals - and 5 on video

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

Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker. I have many more posts on food in Singapore and worldwide. Please share links to your favourite posts

Snippets From Singapore's Airport: Terminal 4 opening; Terminal 5 building; Housing + Feeding The World; Airport Security and Food

Singapore Airport
Singapore airport is the best airport in the world. I am not the only person who says so. It wins awards and votes consistently.

Terminal four has just opened in Singapore's Changi AIrport, used for Cathay Pacific airline. 

Construction has already started on building Terminal five. It will be as large as all the other terminals combined.

So Singapore expects many more people to arrive. Where will they put all those people? In new hotels, if they are temporary visitors. But they will also need more restaurants and offices and places of entertainment if they are on business. No wonder you see construction everywhere in Singapore. Can our planet take all these people? 

We can build houses, but how will we feed everybody? Where will we find the land? Travelling to other countries, in person, or over the internet, shows us answers. Singapore's answer to lack of land is to extend the main island by building up artificial islands using unwanted waste, rubbish collections. Solve two problems, where to put your unwanted rubbish, and how to find construction material. 

Water and Crops
Singapore has pioneered growing plants in the air, in conservatories, plants living on the humid air and projected water.
Hydroponics.

Time to water the desert, use all those empty areas, miles of sand, uninhabited scrubland. 

What about the land occupied by cemeteries. The Jewish cemetery in Orchard road was removed, moved, to make way for what is now the Ngee Ann City skyscraper containing a landmark shopping mall on the lower levels.

More recently, another big cemetery has been cleared away. I think it was for a motorway. A member of Friends of the Museum was given an award by the government for organizing a project to photograph all the gravestones, for the benefit of relatives and historians, before they were moved.

Maybe it’s time to turn dead bodies into compost, woodland burials, to create trees giving the world oxygen. 

Trees

Speaking of trees, 

Plants

All plants create oxygen. At night they go into reverse and use oxygen, so it’s said, and hospitals tell you to remove plants. 

(Watering flowers is time-consuming. Maybe volunteers could do this task. Quicker to water plants if all the rooms looked onto a central plant area. Flowers for one person would brighten the whole floor, as they do in any multi-occupancy bedroom.

Airport Security and food boxes

In security, somebody was carrying leftover food in a cool bag. 

Security asked, "Have you any dry ice? Dry ice is not allowed."  

Presumably the reason is because this could go off accidentally and cause panic.

Berry’s of London

Berry & Rudd of London has recently opened and expanded their operations in Singapore. They began by sending their VIP London marketing and sales man to wine and dine the big spenders, the big wine buyers in Singapore, to fine dining. They also held a grand wine tasting in Singapore at lower prices than they would have charged in London. If you like wine and good food and matching wine and food, now is a good time to look for their wine tasting and dinners, whilst prices are so tempting.

More information from:
Changi Airport
http://www.changiairport.com/corporate/partner-us/changi-east.html
http://www.changiairport.com/en/airport-experience/attractions-and-services/information-and-customer-service-counters.html

Singapore tourism

Author

Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.