Airport Hotels Airport Design What is the purpose

Airport Hotels Airport Design What is the purpose behind these designs ?

Travel for business or pleasure • Airports are “revenue centers” that move large #’s of passengers (pax) • Some pax travel short distances (domestic) Some pax travel much further (international) • Some pax fly into an airport – do business – and fly out the same day • Some of that business in the downtown area Some business at or near the airport

Airport Hotels • • Some hotels are on site – on airport property Some hotels are near the airport (Airport strip) Most hotels have meeting facilities Some hotels offer stay, park & fly service - book overnight – comp. shuttle to airport - comp. parking for 1 week

Airports are constantly upgrading • • • Improving inside facilities & services Renovating – efficiency and the “appearance” Expanding – offering new facilities Looking at improving the “flow” Looking at increase sales (gift shop – retail)

Examine the following slides (shown in class) • What are airport designers trying to achieve based on the following design styles and future concept designs ?

Airports want the pax to relax, enjoy themselves and spend $$ 10 Great Ways To Spend A Layover

It started with comfortable workspaces • In LAX, re. LAX Lounge offers all travelers a first-class airline club lounge for a nominal fee. • Well equipped business centers of Denver, San Francisco & DFW open 24 -7 • Regus Express offers private mini-office cubicles in Philadelphia, Atlanta, and Seattle airports. For more information: re. LAX Lounge Regus Express

Then they added - Free Wi. Fi • major airports offer free Denver, Vegas, Phoenix, Orlando, Charlotte, Tampa, Oakland, Portland, Pittsburgh • free Wi. Fi throughout N. Y. ’s Jet. Blue Terminal at JFK • Philadelphia Wi. Fi is always free to college students with ID and open to everyone on weekends. information: Free Airport Wi. Fi

Now – you can visit an Art Gallery • San Francisco Airport's library & museum has dozens of galleries; • Philadelphia's exhibitions rotate regularly • Denver's sculptures & murals so extensive they merit self-guided walking tour brochures • Atlanta has a permanent exhibit of Zimbabwean sculpture. For more information: San Francisco Airport Museums, Philadelphia International Airport, Fly Denver Airport Art Program

Many offer great Workouts 3 of America's busiest terminals have airport hotels whose gyms offer day passes. • Chicago's O'Hare Airport - Hilton Hotel • Detroit – Mc. Namara Terminal - Westin Hotel For information: Airport Gyms • Boston - Hilton across the Skybridge.

More now offer relaxing Back Rubs • New York-based Xpres. Spa offers back rubs, foot massages, seaweed facials & manicures at over 30 in-terminal locations. • Their competitors (Massage Bar & d_parture spa) are also opening in concourses For information: nationwide. Xpres Spa, Massage Bar, Inc. d_parture

Unique “world-class” Shopping America's most respected museums have retail boutiques in busiest airports • Smithsonian Museum store - Dulles - Reagan National - Newark • Metropolitan Museum of Art stores For more information: - La. Guardia & JFK, Smithsonian Store, - Boston Met Museum Store - Houston SFMOMA Museum Store • San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Upgraded selection - Fine Wine • Vino Volo offers fine wines with comfy leather chairs in 9 airports - JFK - Philadelphia - Seattle - Newark - Washington's Dulles • Cibo Bistro & Wine Bar's rotating list of 32 international labels - Philadelphia - La. Guardia - Washington's Reagan National For more information: Vino Volo Cibo Bistro and Wine Bar

Gourmet Restaurants • Wolfgang Puck's express - Atlanta Hartsfield, - Boston - Vancouver International • Todd English's Bonfire steak house - JFK - Boston • highest concentration of specialty airport food is JFK's Jet. Blue Terminal - Deep Blue (sushi) - Auronuova (Italian) - La Vie (French) - Piquillo (tapas) For more information: Wolfgang Puck , Bonfire Jet. Blue Terminal Dining

Craft Beers and Microbrews • Many airports have at least one tap house offering fresh local brews. • San Francisco's Anchor Brewing • Redondo Beach Brewing Company • Denver's New Belgium Hub • Philadelphia's Independence Brew Pub Beer Me!

A Chance to Kick Back Old School • 19 th-century solution for 21 st-century tensions: • La. Guardia, O'Hare, DFW, Atlanta, Charlotte, Boston, Philadelphia, Phoenix and numerous other airports now offer rows of comfy oak rocking chairs, frequently situated in relaxing, open spaces between concourses. Airport Rocking Chairs

Video Clips - Airport terminals - Changing Airplane designs

Airport terminals Heathrow Airport - New Restaurant - H 20 Bubble Wall • http: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=g. O 47 PJo 2 zc. Y Detroit – Northwest International Airport - singing and changing multi-colour glass wall as you travel the underground passageway • http: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=Es 9 eyl. Q 1 BXU Chicago O'Hare International Airport. • http: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=Gbs. ONs. WGAUs&feature =related

SLEEPBOX - Moscow Int’l. Sheremetyevo Airport • http: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=z. Ith 5 HKn. Y 5 s http: //www. youtube. com/watch? feature=fvwp&NR=1&v=UITTDg. Xzrz. Y Snooze Cube • http: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=Qd. Nj_g. UErt 8&feature=related Top Airport Lounges • http: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=i. Vp. Beeblbew

Luggage service • http: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=M_YI_2 -Ho 2 c

Changing Airplane design Airbus of the Future • http: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=Ot-dopo. L 76 s