The Singapore Changi Airport is approximately 25 square kilometers (9.7 square miles) and is rated as the 15th busiest airport in the world, handling 67.7 million passengers in 2024. It is also the recipient of numerous "Best Airport" awards.
Looking outside. Outside of Costa Rica, I do not think I have ever been in a tropical country.
It has a huge amount of shopping, as you might imagine.
And a butterfly garden!
Airports and airplanes have swapped places in my opinion. In my youth, airports were rather utilitarian affairs and you were wined and dined on airplanes. Now it is quite the opposite.
ReplyDeleteEd, I cannot disagree with you - although airports are a lot more commercialized than they used to be as well. I remember a small number of food places and maybe one or two "travel shops"; now, almost every airport I have been in also has a series of shops that are either high end or local products or both.
DeleteQuite the colors and sounds in that garden TB, one method to calm the travelers nerves perhaps. As Ed mentioned changes have happened over the decades, one used to dress up to fly somewhere, now.... it's People of Walmart dress.
ReplyDeleteIt could be to calm the travelers Nylon12, although it seems to most airports that I have been in are not nearly this nice.
Delete"People of Walmart". It is not an inaccurate statement on some of the flights I have been on.
A butterfly garden! How neat is that. I can barely remember the last time I was at an airport. The videos aren't working for me, though.
ReplyDeleteOh wait. When the page refreshed to load my comment the videos were functioning. How lovely to have a little bit of nature tucked into a busy man-made space.
DeleteLeigh, I do not understand how Blogger does things. I upload them; weirdly I do not think I can check them until it publishes.
DeleteHaving spent more time that I might care to in the last five years in airports, I can attest that this one is spectacular. It is just a heck of a long way to go to get there.