Posts in the category "Festivals":

The Chinese New Year will be celebrated this Sunday and Singapore’s Changi Airport is ready with giant displays to welcome in the Year of the Tiger:

Changi Airport also opened up an Aviation Gallery in Terminal 2, with loads of information stations, interactive kiosks, and 600 tiny airplanes hanging from the ceiling.

Here’s a “please-touch” fire-fighting suit worn by airport emergency officers:

And here’s a bench in the Changi Aviation Gallery that doubles as a scale to show how airports tally up the weight of baggage.

(Photos courtesy Changi Airport Group)

Categories: Air Travel, Airplanes, Airports, Entertainment, Events, Exhibits, Festivals, History
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Is this too much fun for an airport?

This past December, right before Christmas, Germany’s Düsseldorf International Airport (DUS) hosted a circus competition in the shopping arcade with contortionists,  jugglers and trapeze artists.

Now comes word that on February 6^th and 7^th, 2010, the airport shopping arcade will be the site of the world’s first airport indoor ski jump.

They’ll be trucking in a heap-o-snow and making a real ski jump.  Then, they’ll have snowboarders and ski stars perform all sorts of stunts.

They’ve even drafted former British Olympic ski jumper Eddie “the Eagle” Edwards to open the event.

Edwards was the somewhat inept skier who somehow made it to the 1988 Calgary Games.

And although he finished last in his events, he became a goofy, folk hero.

In addition to the ski jump demonstrations, the airport will be hosting a travel show and offering  sports demos, comedy and musical performances, and free airport flights and tours.

Can’t wait to see what they come up with next!

Categories: Entertainment, Events, Festivals, Fun Stuff, Sports
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Many airports are already all gussied up for the holidays, and over the next few days loads more will join in.

Students from the District of Columbia, Virginia and Maryland will celebrate the annual tree-trimming celebration at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport and Washington Dulles International Airport by decorating trees with “Winter Wonderland-themed ornaments they created.Students will be decorating the trees at Dulles on Wednesday, Dec 2 from 10:30 to 11:30 am and at Reagan Washington National on Thursday, Dec. 3 from 10:30 until 11:30 am.

And on Friday, Dec. 4, 2009, between 7 and 9 am, there’ll be live classical piano music by Claudia Sanchez on the ticketing level of Pittsburgh International Airport.

Later that morning, between 10 and 11 a.m., the Aliquippa High School Chorus will sing for passengers while students  decorate the holiday trees.

More holiday events tomorrow!

Categories: Art, Festivals, Kids
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Kelowna International Airport (YLW) is a small(ish) airport in British Columbia, Canada that serves about one million passengers a year.   It’s about an hour from Vancouver, with a kid’s play area, some intriguing art and history exhibits and, starting November 1st, 2009, non-stop flights to Mexico.

To help spread the word, the airport is having a Dia de Muertos (Day of the Dead) celebration on Friday, October 30^th, from noon to 4 pm.

Everyone will get free parking and there will be door prizes that include $100 travel vouchers and airline tickets.  In a nice twist, local media outlets are participating in the airport’s Dia de Muertos altar competition and asking passengers to vote for their favorites with food donations for local food banks.  For more information, see the Kelowna Airport website.

Oh, and if you go to Kelowna, please keep an eye peeled for Ogopogo, a sea monster said to live in Lake Okanagan.

Categories: Art, Events, Festivals, Fun Stuff
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Deepavali – or The Festival of Lights – is celebrated by Hindus worldwide to mark the victory of good over evil.

To commemorate the holiday, you’ll find more than a dozen live garden displays and floral sculptures throughout Singapore’s Changi Airport through October 25th.

Here’s a sample of the installations:

There are seven displays in the Departure Transit Malls and five in the Departure Hall Public Areas .

Here’s one more:

Categories: Art, Events, Exhibits, Festivals, Fun Stuff
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