Inside world’s one of the best!!!

You wait, dine, shop may be quick swim or a shot of pool or snooker, that too when you are travelling. Welcome to the world’s one of the best, airports. Sure, you must remember “The terminal”, starring Tom Hank, we bring you the inside the world’s best and the finest airport. Airports are no more the same today. From early 40’s or 50’s where it was merely a place where planes used to land in the grass land, now the airports have moved to a grass land to fully fledged city like spot. One can get anything imaginable in the airport, a city inside the city, a place to live and feel the ambiance. An airport caters millions of people traveling every day; it could be for business, pleasure or may be study. People travel all over the world with connecting flights and airport is the only place. If you remember “Up in the Air” starring  George Clooney, one of the finest movies stating about airport and the miles, speaks a lot about it. The business traveler just do not have time to get home, they might be heading for a conference in Tokyo, next day a business meeting with Chinese delegates in person probably in Shanghai, a world summit in California and an award ceremony in Helsinki. The best home you could get will be the Airports. You dine, you watch movies, you swim and you take a nap, just like home. This is today’s airport with class and style, an airport with modern technology along with amazing architecture, an airport with a feel. As per Federal Aviation, airports are defined as to any area of land or water used or intended for landing or takeoff of aircraft. This includes, different categories of airports, special types of facilities including seaplane bases, heliports, and facilities to accommodate tilt rotor aircraft. An airport includes an appurtenant area used or intended for airport buildings, facilities, as well as rights of way together with the buildings and facilities. The law defines airports by categories of airport activities, including commercial service, primary, cargo service, reliever, and general aviation airports. Sometimes, words like aerodrome, air strip are used instead of airports. The difference is all airports are aerodrome but all aerodromes are not airport. Airport has all the facilities whereas the aerodrome has other wise. Airports are normally divided into landside and airside areas. Landside areas include parking lots, public transportation train stations and access roads.

Airside areas include all are as accessible to aircraft, including runways, taxiways and ramps. Different airport has their particular codes provided by ICAO and IATA for their identification which aids to Air traffic controller and the airlines in their flight planning. ICAO differs from IATA codes, which are generally used for airline timetables, reservations, and baggage tags. For example, the IATA code for London’s Heathrow Airport is LHR and its ICAO code is EGLL. Let us begin the journey as why are they rated the world’s best. Recently Sky Trax rated Changi International Airport as the world’s number1 airport. And rightly so it is, from its supreme customer service to its facilities and the ambience, it is just amazing. Thought being the 15th busiest airport Changi International is certainly the top rated airport and serves more than 51million passengers annually. An airport requires certain things straight and correct, right from the start. Check in, security, the gates, the baggage, customer service etc. These things should be mandatorily right and easy, but is that all it takes to be the best? According to architect Bill Hooper, who heads the aviation practice at Gensler, a leader in airport design, the best terminals “anticipate what your needs are when you need them.” Those needs—the Varied desires often of millions of travelers a year—might include plentiful day light, comfortable seating, reliable free Wi-Fi, and good or even great restaurants may be a shopping place too. Changi International Airport, CIA is hyper-organized and packed with carefully crafted pleasures like the seat of Ferrari, handmade and perfect. The airport’s two movie theatres, various TV-watching lounge, and endless other diversions, Changi is also well equipped for napping. All three terminals have dedicated areas such as the Snooze Lounge, in T3, where travelers can Stretch out on chaises. T3 is stocked with a most amazing collection of toy stores and video arcades and a pay-to enter playground with rides, long slides, and surreal inflated animals, all accessible without passing through security. Terminal 1 also has a roof top pool with a Jacuzzi and bar. At a glimpse:

• There’s also a lush vertical garden here called the “Green Wall.” It has more than 20 varieties of plants, vines, and flowers growing on it.
• There is availability of Sky train for switching the terminal.
• One of the best things about Changi airport is its Balinese-themed outdoor rooftop pool, located in Terminal 1. Passengers can pay to use this pool for about$14. (It’s free for guests who are staying in the Ambassador Transit Hotel.)
• And its own fitness centre (along with locker rooms, where you can shower after).
• Free charging stations, where you can lockup your phone while it charges.
• When you’re tired of eating, drinking and shopping, you can watch a movie. There are two movie theatres in the airport, which show a rotating roster of current movies.

An interesting part covers its rest room area. Every rest room has a wall mounted screen that says please rate your experience. Below that is a row of simple faces ranging from grinning to frowning. If one taps anything lower than “good” (as mile), a questionnaire would appear saying: Wet floor? No toilet paper? The real-time feedback means problems a resolved very quickly. If one simply stand around looking perplexed, one of more than200iPadwielding Changi Experience Agents—men in purple blazers and women in pink—will buttonhole you, ask what’s wrong, and attempt to fix the problem. Even the acres of carpeting are part of the thoughtful culture: you can tell you’ve crossed from one terminal to the next when the pattern shifts. Airports are the one of the key indicators of country’s economy and growth. Bigger and better airport indicates the dwellers about the rise in the country’s reputation and advancement. Nepal’s TIA is still struggling but someday we would be one of the world’s best no matter if the revenue and size is less. All we need strategic planning and discipline.

After all “Airport reflects the mentality of the people.”