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Dusseldorf Airport on ice

12/10/15

They’ve hosted skiing and dancing in the terminal. Even a circus. Now Dusseldorf Airport has an ice rink installed in the pre-security hall. The rink is open this weekend and next and there is no charge to rent skates. Better yet, Saturday afternoons they turn on the disco ball for an ice-disco. →

Outdoor movies at Düsseldorf Airport

07/22/15

Düsseldorf Airport has brought back its popular outdoor movie program. Offered weekends throughout July, “OpenAirport Cinema” has seats for about 500 people and is showing both blockbusters such as “Tomorrowland” with George Clooney to classics, such as “Pulp fiction.” A giant screen is set up on the outdoor observation terrace and everyone gets wireless headphones →

All-red dinner at Dusseldorf Airport

03/13/15

Germany’s Dusseldorf Airport has a fun, creative side: an outdoor airport terrace that has hosted an outdoor film night, a robot that parks cars and a monthly event in the pre-security shopping area that has featured everything from a circus to dance performances. Following up on last year’s “Dîner en bleu” – which featured guests →

At Dusseldorf Airport: pick a card, any card

11/20/14

Bryan Berg – a Guinness World Record holder for cardstacking – paid a visit to Dusseldorf Airport recently and built the New York skyline in the terminal. The project was an advertisement for an IT company in Cologne, and included glue-less structures of the Freedom Tower, the Statue of liberty, Yankee Stadium, the Empire State →

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Outdoor movies – at the airport.

09/09/14

The amenities at Singapore’s Changi Airport, Hong Kong International Airport and the Incheon International Airport in Seoul include movie theaters. But those are indoor movie theaters. In what we hope will be a regular feature, last weekend Germany’s Düsseldorf International (which recently adopted a parking robot) offered visitors a chance to see an outdoor movie →

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Souvenir Sunday at Dusseldorf Airport

07/06/14

Souvenir Sunday at Dusseldorf Airport →

Dusseldorf Airport: event central

01/30/14

Dusseldorf Airport: event central →

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Headis (tennis with your head) at Dusseldorf Airport

05/05/12

Can’t get to London for the 2012 Olympics? Try Dusseldorf Airport instead. →

Dusseldorf Airport’s far-out food festival

07/02/10

On the first Sunday of each month you’ll find a party or some sort of unusual event going on in the vast public lobby area of Dusseldorf International Airport (DUS). Last Christmas it was a circus, complete with aerialists and clowns. Last month, the airport was the site of the 2010 German’s best parkour championship. →

At German airports, bees are the canaries

06/29/10

(Courtesy Field Museum, via Flickr Creative Commons) According to a story by Tanya Mohn in the New York Times, Düsseldorf International Airport and seven other airports in Germany are using bees as ‘biodetectives.’ Clues about the air quality around each airport show up in the honey. “The first batch of this year’s harvested honey from →

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