DISCUSS: Best Airport

[Monkey]

Discuss this week's topic here.

[hkskyline]

Munich International Airport

The terminal is very spacious and bright.



























There is a huge square outside the entrance with a large canopy.







Terminal 2



Parking & Control Tower



Airplanes from the observation deck (2 euros)







From the gate : notice the smaller aircraft parked on the tarmac. Yet even more smaller aircraft are parked beyond to the left.









Aerial View

[hkskyline]

Hong Kong International Airport - Chek Lap Kok

Source : pBase

[musang]

munich airport: nice, but looks a bit like a refurbished warehouse.

[Küsel]

Zurich airport (Unique)


Entrance:

Airside center:

construction phase:

Dock A:

Dock Midfield (access by airport metro)

[exciter]

this is the new terminal 4 in madrid airport. will be ready in 2006, for 70million psg.
some pics, enj oy it









































also visit this website http://www.airliners.net/open.file/836552/L/
the architects are 'estudio lamela' (spanish) the author of the bernabeu stadium in madrid,and 'richard rogers' (u.k)
thanks to the spanish forumers, as ROTES who posted some of the pics in another thread.
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[mumbojumbo]

No doubt that it is a good airport but it hasn't opened yet!!!

[exciter]

yes, the works are delayed, but will be open in few months

[OtAkAw]

Can anyone give the ranking of the world's largest airports? THANKS!

[hkskyline]

ACI 2004 Preliminary Data - World's Busiest Airports
1 ATLANTA, GA (ATL)
2 CHICAGO, IL (ORD)
3 LONDON, GB (LHR)
4 TOKYO, JP (HND)
5 LOS ANGELES, CA (LAX)
6 DALLAS/FT WORTH AIRPORT, TX (DFW)
7 FRANKFURT, DE (FRA)
8 PARIS, FR (CDG)
9 AMSTERDAM, NL (AMS)
10 DENVER, CO (DEN)
11 LAS VEGAS, NV (LAS)
12 PHOENIX, AZ (PHX)
13 MADRID, ES (MAD)
14 BANGKOK, TH (BKK)
15 NEW YORK, NY (JFK)

[Ellatur]

INCHEON!!!

[dcb11]

Incheon in Seoul.

[hkskyline]

Toronto Pearson Terminal 1

[TheoCecilJones]

Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
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[DrJoe]

Madrids looks cool, but its borderline tacky and it might not age very well.

[_tictac_]

Copenhagen-Kastrup International Airport
19 million passengers in 2004, 20 million passengers expected in 2005.

[Nemo]

AMSTERDAM SCHIPHOL INTERNATIONAL

Europe's No.4 in passengers and 3rd in freight.



Schiphol's 2004 Passenger Numbers Reach 42.5 Mln
January 5, 2005

Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport handled a record 42.5 million airline
passengers last year even with the number of flights below the levels
prior to the September 11, 2001 attacks, its operator said.

Schiphol Group, which operates the Netherlands main hub airport,
said in a statement on Wednesday that in addition to a 6.5 percent rise
in passenger numbers in 2004, cargo handling rose 8.5 percent to more
than 1.4 million tonnes.

The airport group, which the government may partially privatize,
said it expected a further 4.5 percent rise in passenger handling numbers
this year.


















www.airliners.nl

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[Bitxofo]

Amsterdam Schiphol Airport is huge but terminal buildings are not very nice...

[627]

i remeber someone asking for pics of jakarta's soekarno hatta airport sometime back in some other thread.... but i cant find the thread so ill post the pics i compiled here

so to start us off.. here are some maps/aerials to give u guys a general feel on the aiport's layout, which i think is quite unique..

a closer view of the departure gates






now there are gardens in each of the "pockets" that exists within the departure gate clusters and here are some of them












and now here are some of the interiors

[627]

heres the motif of this airport. i got it from the Aga Khan's website, the Landscaper of this airport.

http://www.akdn.org/agency/akaa/six.../indonesia.html

Development of the Indonesian economy, with the consequent growth in air traffic, required the government to increase the size of its international/domestic airport by adding a second terminal, raising its total capacity to 18 million passengers. Terminal II is very similar to Terminal I, completed in 1985, both having been designed by Paul Andreu, and based on the premise that unlike most contemporary airports, Indonesia's should reflect the culture and traditions of the country. Both terminals interpret the rural buildings of Java: clusters of shingled houses with steeply inclined roofs scattered among flat expanses of fields. Both integrate landscape and building in an exceptionally beautiful way. The airport structures are designed as open pavilions, set within the lush, natural environment, providing shade, shelter, and ventilation. The architect's wish to keep the pavilions and all the circulation spaces beyond the check--in areas completely open to the natural landscape was fully realised in Terminal I, but not in Terminal II, since the airport authorities wished the newer terminal to be free of rain and insects, and air conditioned. Windows had to be installed throughout the pavilions and circulation corridors of Terminal II, thus separating the interior spaces from the gardens. Even so, the landscaped setting, filled with tropical plants, offers the traveller a satisfying preview of the natural landscape of central Java. The jury noted with favour that both terminals, unlike most airports where the efficient movement of people is the primary objective, provide a variety of spaces for gathering and contemplation, alone or in groups.