“The white zone is for the immediate loading and unloading of passengers only. There is no stopping in the red zone”.
Listen Betty, don’t start with your white zone/red zone shit again.
Oh, really, Vernon? Why pretend, we both know perfectly well what this is about. You want me to have an abortion.
“Never leave baggage unattended at anytime. If you see unattended baggage please repor-- MISTER ROBERT ANTWAN ZIMMEKIZ, YOU HAVE 1 CALL WAITING FOR YOU ON THE WHITE COURTESY TELEPHONE…”
Somebody was paid money for this.
Somebody was paid cold hard cash money to come up with this idea.
Somebody was paid money to approve this.
Somebody was paid money to create and record this.
Somebody was paid money to write this ludicrous story.
Somebody was paid money to edit this ludicrous story.
And it’s the poors and immigrants that are to blame for the failings of this country?
Don’t worry, soon AI will do all this work and no one will get paid to do anything.
Chances are the people who came up with this idea already used AI to come up with the stupid fucking idea.
I mean, it could be interesting if they piped in ambient noise from outside the boarding area, etc, into the boarding area, particularly around the windows where you can see your plane and stuff.
Or like if there’s an observation lounge watching take offs and things.
I assume that’s not what they’re talking about because no way an airport could be that cool, but details.
Ok, per usual the actual story is slightly less ludicrous. I’m reading this as they are going to make “songs” by taking real sounds but mixing and arranging them into rhythms, the same way they do in some movies as part of an in-world lead up to a song and dance number. So it will blend in but you may notice if you look for it and it will probably impact your subconscious and mood. Which seems to be the main goal.
Yeah, it’s musique concrète with the samples being airport sounds.
I’ve long complained about what happens when MBAs control companies without regard for industry experience. This is the inverse and what happens when people whose entire professional life is one industry wind up making decisions for it
Yeesh
That’s going to suck for anyone that gets sensory overload/feels overwhelmed by loud busy places like airports.
I actually disagree having listened to it as someone who gets sensory overload and panic attacks. (Disclaimer: I’ve just listened with headphones; the real-world implementation might change this.)
I thought the music was pleasant. I can see it helping to organically drown out the loud, chaotic, stressful noises naturally present in the airport.
I’m interested to hear what other people who get sensory overload think, though, since I’ll bet it manifests in very different ways.
With public fundages? Erm. I… erm
“Don’t call me Shirley!”
Seems like the rest of the comments, sans a few, didn’t read the article.
Having flown a fair bit, Heathrow always felt rather quiet. I flew out and back to Heathrow 3 times within the span of a year, recently, and didnt notice any background music - something I became familiar with in other airports. If this is how they’re planning to introduce some music I’m all for it.
