Believe it or not, people actually write reviews on airports. I thought I had no life, but I guess it's something to do while waiting for your flight. I think many of you (especially Will with working on the ceilings) and those who saw the Freemont St. Experience will probably find this useful. I think this review sums up my impressions of the airport really well:
Some quotes:
"It’s the concourses, though, that most people see, and that are easily the worst thing about Hartsfield-Jackson. The concourses are all more-or-less identical, hugely long and narrow rooms that stretch to the left and right from the central spine of the railway like giant ribs. You want your gate to be either in the high teens or the low twenties. A gate number like A2 or C32 means that you have a long trudge out to the remote end of the concourse. And it’s a dangerous trudge, too; the people walking the other way are just getting off a long flight, usually hurrying to make their connection, and consequently are not watching where they’re going. You’ve got to keep moving; if you stop even for a second somebody’s likely to run you over, whether it’s the hard-charging Delta stewardess battling a gate change, the surly airport employee driving the oversize golf cart, or just the ordinary everyday business traveler chatting obliviously on his or her cell phone.
It also doesn’t help that the concourses are so ugly. The ceilings are oppressively low. The carpets are worn and tattered. There aren’t nearly enough seats at each gate. Worse yet, there’s a sense of sameness everywhere, as though the five concourses were purchased at the same factory outlet of Airports-For-Less. If you’re not familiar with the layout – and most of the people changing planes don’t seem to be – the overall effect must be like wandering through one of those psych-class rat mazes, over and over again, except with a Starbucks every few feet or so.
Worse – and I think most damning – is that while you’re in Hartsfield-Jackson, there’s almost no clue that you’re in Atlanta, or Georgia, or even in the South. The same sort of generic creeping homogeneity and sameness that you find elsewhere in America, here and there, is present everywhere in Hartsfield. Outside of the presence of the city’s three major industries – Delta flights, CNN Airport News, Coca-Cola for sale at every kiosk – you’d never know you were in Atlanta. This is true of a lot of airports, but even at sterile outposts like Dallas-Fort Worth, you can get decent Dickey's barbecue and buy every kind of Dallas Cowboys merchandise known to man. ..."
Full Review: http://www.epinions.com/content_140767497860
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that is true, but you dont really think about it because everyone is moving the same direction and usually a fast as they can. but 'f' off franky i am stick'n wit the ceiling. lol
I hadn't thought about the fact that every airport, no matter what city, what state, or what country for that matter, has no real connect with the region their in. Connecting to and taking from the region would help break up the monotany that is the airport and give it a unique identity. It would no longer be just a spot to pass through but another unique factor and attraction that each city/state/country has to offer by using it to make a new experience.
Yes, but isn’t this a place between places – suspended in-between… part of a global network, adjacent to faraway lands and cultures. What should be the quality of such a place?
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