Mineta San José International Airport

At the Airport: Name SEA’s Robot + Play at SJC + See Nature at IND

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Help Name SEA’s Food Delivering Robot

A few months returned, Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA) joined the list of airports offering cell food ordering. The OrderSEA software works with the Grab and At Your Gate applications, supplying pick out-up and gate transport alternatives from extra than 16 airport food outlets.

As an advantage, some travelers who order gate transport find the At Your Gate delivery man or woman observed through a Gita-branded robotic just like the one at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) named Nom Nom.

Now that it's been on web site some time, SEA desires the Gita robotic to be part of the permanen crew. So they’re asking the public to help choose a call.

Have any thoughts?

New Play Area at Mineta San Jose Int’l Airport

There’s a new child’s play space at Mineta San Jose International Airport (SJC).

Called Zoom Zone and positioned in Terminal B among Gates 24 and 25, the 600-rectangular foot area changed into created with aid from Zoom (Zoom Video Communications Inc.) and has an aviation theme.

Features of the Zoom Zone encompass a Pin Screen, a Bird Climber, a Zoom Plane, and a Kinectic Butterfly. There’s also an Alphabet Airplane that invites kids to open airplane window sun shades and find out gadgets representing destinations.

 

Nature Photos at IND Airport

Camouflaged Spider via Ronda Hamm

 Indianapolis International Airport (IND) is website hosting a new photography exhibition titled Indiana, Naturally via December 2021 in both the Ticketing Hall and in cases in Concourses A and B.
The exhibition is part of a bigger, ongoing cultural collaboration among the Indianapolis Airport Authority and the Arts Council of Indianapolis. Here are the various pics. See greater here.

Blue Sky Coreopsis by Jeanette Jeanette Jaskula
Zalman Wainhaus, Somewhere Silent

Art and Magic at SJC and DAL Airports

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Artists: Humans Since 1982 Photographer: John Janca

Fresh artwork at Mineta San Jose International Airport

Take a have a look at this cool new everlasting paintings installed at California’s Mineta San Jose International Airport (SJC)

Installed in the pre-protection Arrivals Hall of Terminal B, A million Times (San José), by means of artists Humans considering the fact that 1982, is crafted from 160 clock faces with white arms set towards a black floor. The clock hands have been programmed to spin individually so the paintings every so often suggests the correct time among performances of three extraordinary compositions.

Take a look.

Travelers who've had the threat to undergo Terminal 2 at Singapore’s Changi Airport within the past will understand this version of A million Times, which is made of 504 clock-faces.

MAGIC SHOW AT DALLAS LOVE FIELD

Who says all the magic has gone out of journey?

On Tuesday (September 21, 2021) Dallas Love Field (DAL) hosted a live magic show for vacationers and airport personnel.

The forty five-minute display by way of magicians Dal and Cinde Sanders blanketed magic and phantasm which include, card magic, mind-reading, floating tables, and large balloon puppies. We’re nominating this for Airport Amenity of the Week.

What do you suspect?

Airport Crossword Puzzles & TSA Nutcrackers

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Use your words

We spotted some airports celebrating National Crossword Puzzle Day on December 21 with their very own aviation-themed puzzles.

The vacation marks the day the primary-acknowledged revealed crossword turned into posted inside the New York World newspaper.

Give those puzzles from Mineta San Jose International Airport (SJC) and Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL) a strive. And let us recognize which of them we ignored.

And only for amusing: TSA Nutcrackers

Two TSA officers running at A. B. Won Pat Guam International Airport (GUM)  dressed up these 14-inch-tall nutcrackers in TSA uniforms. Their clothing include insignia patches, hats, airport security badges and, of route, face mask.

Airport songs for protection

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Like other airports across the us of a, Mineta San Jose International Airport (SJC) is retaining the facilities clean.

The airport is also the use of signs and symptoms and floor stickers to encourage passengers to do not forget to preserve their distance and put on face coverings.

Now, SJC is also getting even greater creative with getting those messages out.

The airport has enlisted Santa Cruz-based totally singer/songwriter artist Nick Gallant to put in writing and file three authentic songs to remind passengers and employees what they could and have to do to preserve matters secure.

The ditties are catchy.

And you’ll have masses of time to research them by coronary heart. Each music is being performed in the course of the Airport’s terminal homes once an hour on a 20-minute cycle.

Give a listen:

FlySJC · SJC Go Somewhere Safely

Why play safety songs in an airport?

“By now our vacationers and personnel realize what they need to do to keep each different safe while travelling,” stated SJC Assistant Director of Aviation Judy Ross, “So the assignment for us became to discover a completely unique, attractive manner to remind everyone to live vigilant.”

Mineta San Jose International Airport (SJC) isn’t the first to have protection songs to remind passengers to be aware of the policies.

Way returned in 2011, Montana’s Glacier Park International Airport (FCA) was going for walks a video of a nearby band named The Singing Sons of Beaches to remind passengers of the policies and routines required on the TSA checkpoint.

The “bonus reminders” aren’t always songs.

Over the years McCarran International Airport Airport (LAS) in Las Vegas has enlisted celebrities to create academic reminder videos as well.

Travel Tidbits from an airport close to you

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Here’s some of the airport news that caught our interest these days.

May I help you, really?

Our first come upon with a video help desk became at the massive Istanbul Airport in October 2019.

It seemed unusual however, then, green to step up to what regarded like an unstaffed information desk after which have a live video chat with a person positioned offsite.

But now video chats are the socially distanced way to get questions responded in an airport.

As of May 2020, volunteer Airport Ambassadors staff the Virtual Information Booth at Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport (SDF).

And now Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) is walking a Virtual Assistance pilot application in Terminal 2.

Travelers could have real-time video conversations with a client services specialist over a hint-loose tablet machine mounted at the facts booth.

As fitness protection and social distancing worries keep, we anticipate to look extra airports providing a few type of virtual help table.

San Jose International Airport indicates off its ingenuity

Like maximum airports now, Mineta San Jose International Airport (SJC) is enforcing new fitness and safety measures in its terminal.

We just like the no-nonsense social distancing signage and floor decals.

And we're impressed that in place of waiting months for out-of-inventory hand-sanitizing stations and plexiglass barriers, the Facilities and Engineering group at SJC is making its personal.

At Your Gate + Grab = Service

Grab, the time-saving app that helps you to order from an airport eating place after which move immediately to the pick-up line to get your meal is partnering with AtYourGate, the service that lets you order airport food thru an app and feature it brought to you anyplace you're in the terminal.

The partnership makes feel on many levels however is flawlessly timed for these ‘no-touch’ instances.

Grab already operates in over 50 airports in four nations. AtYourGate serves 10 airports now, with forty extra to be served in quick order.