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| Incheon International Airport is i of the best airports inwards the world. |
By Korea.net Honorary Reporter Salwa Elzeny
Photos = Salwa Elzeny
As someone unknown in i lawsuit said, “Travel is the solely affair you lot purchase that makes you lot richer.”
Airports are the offset gateway to your adventures. Airports are a house of both happiness as well as sadness. We experience happiness when our menage unit of measurement as well as friends acquire inwards as well as experience sadness when they leave.
Incheon International Airport (ICN) is i of the best airports that I accept e'er seen. It's the largest aerodrome inwards Korea, the primary aerodrome serving the upper-case missive of the alphabet metropolis of Seoul, as well as i of the largest as well as busiest airports inwards the world.
Since 2005, it has been rated equally the best aerodrome inwards the basis yesteryear Airports Council International every year.
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| Travelers tin job convenient shipping systems at the airport. |
What is Airports Council International?
Airports Council International (ACI) is the solely global merchandise illustration of the world’s airports. Established inwards 1991, the ACI represents airports' interests amongst governments as well as international organizations, such equally the ICAO. It develops standards, policies as well as recommended practices for airports, as well as provides information as well as preparation opportunities to enhance standards roughly the world.
In March 2017, Incheon International Airport won the world’s best aerodrome accolade for a tape twelfth consecutive year.
Korea’s largest aerodrome scored 4.98 points out of 5, winning the championship given yesteryear the annual Airport Service Quality Award, presented yesteryear the ACI.
The aerodrome was also named the best large aerodrome -- amongst at to the lowest degree xl meg passengers annually -- the best aerodrome inwards the Asia-Pacific as well as the best large-scale aerodrome inwards the Asia-Pacific.
Today, aerodrome assessments accept exceed away an essential job to improving the surgery of airports, the facilities that are provided yesteryear an airport, which way saving coin as well as stress for travelers. It is also of import that they furnish comfort to those who accept to pass long transit times inwards the airport. Of the many criteria on which airports are ranked, the safety human face may live highlighted inwards calorie-free of recent attacks, bombings as well as hijackings.
In spite of the importance of security, it's non the solely component when classifying airports. The set out of passengers, the character of services, the facilities offered as well as the speed of reception all play a job inwards ranking the best airports roughly the world.
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| Self check-in kiosks are available at Incheon International Airport. |
During my curt experience at Incheon International Airport, I saw as well as enjoyed many wonderful as well as unique services, similar a Lost & Found Center. At this center, you lot tin enquire virtually anything that you lot lost at the airport. You tin acquire out your information at that spot amongst the centre staff then that they volition live able to contact you. The staff speak Korean as well as English.
Also, Incheon International Airport offers a taxation refund service at the Self Tax Refund kiosks. They are slow to job as well as are available inwards all areas of the airport. They brand it easier for tourists to relish shopping inwards Korea as well as to salve money.
To salve fourth dimension as well as to minimize your fourth dimension waiting inwards line, at that spot are also 108 self-check inwards kiosks at the airport, amongst services provided inwards iv languages. One of the reasons that I was then happy, despite my leaving Korea, was that some of the check-in employees spoke Standard Arabic amongst me as well as my sis afterwards they saw our passports. Many other airports don't furnish multi-language services for travelers -- merely the local linguistic communication as well as English linguistic communication -- then I appreciated this service at Incheon International Airport. I know how good Koreans honor other cultures as well as nations, as well as this service makes passengers experience a lot to a greater extent than comfortable.
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| The world's best aerodrome also provides a prayer room for devout Muslims. |
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| Live music is played at the airport. |
The aerodrome also provides particular services similar complimentary Wi-Fi all roughly the airport, sleeping spaces, as well as hotels within as well as close the aerodrome then you lot don't take away to acquire out the aerodrome if you lot accept a curt layover time. The aerodrome offers several amusement options, including a casino, a golf game course, several gardens, complimentary tours, as well as if you lot are merely passing through the airport, you lot may live interested inwards learning virtually Korean arts, traditions as well as history spell you're at the airport.
There are many 24-hour eateries, both landside as well as airside. Art exhibitions as well as scheduled alive music exhibitions are on display throughout the airport. Full-service banking, including unusual currency exchanges, is available at the airport. Medical as well as dental services are also offered at the Inha University Hospital aerodrome clinic.
One particular service actually appreciated yesteryear many devout Muslim travelers is the prayer room. Korea is the offset non-Muslim province to furnish a specifically Muslim prayer room at its principal airport. This service helps devout Muslim travelers to non worry virtually missing a prayer fourth dimension spell at the airport. Individual shower rooms are available to use, complimentary of charge. Shower kits are provided for free, too, to transit passengers or for a modest fee to all other travelers. You tin relish a sauna, soaking inwards a tub, mortal sleeping rooms, coming together rooms, a snack bar as well as Thai-style massages at the Spa on Air. Massages, blast care, aromatherapy as well as a diverseness of other beauty treatments are available inwards the aerodrome spa, too.
Incheon International Airport is served yesteryear 2 dissimilar types of aerodrome buses, measure as well as deluxe. Standard aerodrome buses brand many stops as well as tend to live crowded, amongst tighter seats. Deluxe aerodrome buses toll more, but run on shortened or nonstop routes as well as accept larger, to a greater extent than comfortable seats. Airport buses run betwixt the aerodrome as well as most of Seoul all twenty-four hours as well as all night. Detailed motorcoach information is available at whatever aerodrome information desk.
Arex commuter trains run betwixt Incheon International Airport as well as Seoul Station along 2 lines, an limited as well as an all-stop. The limited runs non-stop for 43 minutes betwixt Incheon as well as Seoul Station, amongst trains departing every thirty to 35 minutes. The all-stop stops at every station betwixt Incheon International Airport as well as Seoul Station, including a halt at Gimpo Airport. All-stop trains depart every seven to fifteen minutes for the 58-minute journey. Arex trains tin live boarded at the Airport Railroad Incheon Airport Station located reverse the aerodrome entrance.
High-speed limited trains also move to dissimilar cities from Incheon International Airport, too Seoul, to Busan, Gwangju, Yeosu, Daejeon as well as more.
Here is an episode from the famous Arabic-language TV present "Khawater," presented yesteryear Ahmed Al-Shukairy, where he talks virtually Incheon International Airport.
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