any airport still have the flapping card flight status boards?
Mar 27, 2008, 5:50 am
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Also still alive and well in CGN (Cologne-Bonn) - they have two in Terminal 1 and at least one more in Terminal 2 (can't remember right now whether there's one or two there).
Are there any airports where they still have the smaller versions of these boards at each gate? TXL springs to mind but there must be others...
Great topic ^
Are there any airports where they still have the smaller versions of these boards at each gate? TXL springs to mind but there must be others...
Great topic ^
Mar 27, 2008, 6:26 pm
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Dunno, but I saw scribbles on a chalkboard in some of the smaller airports in Madagascar, which is probably an even older technology.
I don't know what they're rightly called, but you know the kind still common at train stations and for a long time at airports in the past, where the board has to cycle through each letter of the alphabet, and has special fields like "delayed 15 min" or "boarding"? I'm just curious for nostalgic reasons -- I wonder if any of these exist in large airports still -- they're kind of neat I think. Of course in lots of places you have the segmented letter LCD (?) boards, the intermediate between the old flapping boards and the modern plasma screens, and these sort of give you the same feeling. But nothing beats the sound of the mechanical characters flipping around every few minutes, I remember...
Mar 28, 2008, 4:18 am
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Kamuzu International Airport in Lilongwe, the capital of Malawi, goes one further. Instead of wasting expensive electricity on needless flipping, their flight status board consists of a plank of wood with nails hammered into it, and wood bits with holes in them can then be hung up on the nails to display eg. "Air Malawi" "QM" "1" "2" "3" "Blantyre" "1" "2" "5" "0". This isn't too hard to maintain, as the airport gets about half a dozen flights per day, and there's no need to worry about gate information either as LLW has precisely one gate, which is used by all flights.
Mar 28, 2008, 4:51 am
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Kamuzu International Airport in Lilongwe, the capital of Malawi, goes one further. Instead of wasting expensive electricity on needless flipping, their flight status board consists of a plank of wood with nails hammered into it, and wood bits with holes in them can then be hung up on the nails to display eg. "Air Malawi" "QM" "1" "2" "3" "Blantyre" "1" "2" "5" "0". This isn't too hard to maintain, as the airport gets about half a dozen flights per day, and there's no need to worry about gate information either as LLW has precisely one gate, which is used by all flights.
Mar 29, 2008, 9:27 am
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