any airport still have the flapping card flight status boards?
Mar 25, 2008 | 9:12 am
#1
Original Poster
Join Date: Nov 1999
Location: if it's Thursday, this must be Belgium
Programs: UA 1K MM
Posts: 6,579
any airport still have the flapping card flight status boards?
updated 10/2008, see post #79 -- who wants to buy the one from South Station, Boston!
I don't know what they're rightly called, but you know the kind still common at train stations and for a long time at airports in the past, where the board has to cycle through each letter of the alphabet, and has special fields like "delayed 15 min" or "boarding"? I'm just curious for nostalgic reasons -- I wonder if any of these exist in large airports still -- they're kind of neat I think. Of course in lots of places you have the segmented letter LCD (?) boards, the intermediate between the old flapping boards and the modern plasma screens, and these sort of give you the same feeling. But nothing beats the sound of the mechanical characters flipping around every few minutes, I remember...
I don't know what they're rightly called, but you know the kind still common at train stations and for a long time at airports in the past, where the board has to cycle through each letter of the alphabet, and has special fields like "delayed 15 min" or "boarding"? I'm just curious for nostalgic reasons -- I wonder if any of these exist in large airports still -- they're kind of neat I think. Of course in lots of places you have the segmented letter LCD (?) boards, the intermediate between the old flapping boards and the modern plasma screens, and these sort of give you the same feeling. But nothing beats the sound of the mechanical characters flipping around every few minutes, I remember...
Last edited by TA; Oct 26, 2008 at 9:48 pm
Mar 25, 2008 | 9:16 am
#2
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Fort Worth TX
Programs: Earned status with AA, DL, SPG, HH, Hyatt, Marriott, Seabourn, NCL, National, Hertz...I miss my bed!
Posts: 10,927
They are still present in many international airports around the world. I've probably seen them in a half-dozen in Europe/South America/Asia just in the last couple of years.
Mar 25, 2008 | 9:21 am
#4
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Soon to be LEGT
Posts: 10,928
I am pretty sure they've still got them in the main check-in hall at SKG.
Small (mostly CRT) screens with flight info are dotted around the airport, but the check-in hall still has a big, old-style board. ^
Small (mostly CRT) screens with flight info are dotted around the airport, but the check-in hall still has a big, old-style board. ^
Mar 25, 2008 | 9:27 am
#5
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: YYZ, ON
Programs: UA 1K (2MM)
Posts: 394
I don't know what they're rightly called, but you know the kind still common at train stations and for a long time at airports in the past, where the board has to cycle through each letter of the alphabet, and has special fields like "delayed 15 min" or "boarding"? I'm just curious for nostalgic reasons -- I wonder if any of these exist in large airports still -- they're kind of neat I think. Of course in lots of places you have the segmented letter LCD (?) boards, the intermediate between the old flapping boards and the modern plasma screens, and these sort of give you the same feeling. But nothing beats the sound of the mechanical characters flipping around every few minutes, I remember...
Mar 25, 2008 | 10:16 am
#15
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: BOS and vicinity
Programs: Former UA 1P
Posts: 3,730