Airport Noise

I was at Phoenix the last three days. While I was taking a flight back from there to good ol' Raleigh-Durham, there was an amazingly huge crowd at the airport. And obviously, that meant there were Public Announcements made every second. I hate them.

I love the relative quiet of European airports (esp. Frankfurt), where there are no announcements at all. If people arent on time for their flights, their flights just take off without them ... Novel concept, aye ?!

I was actually in Phoenix for a Retail Conference and the overall theme of the event was about customized messages/marketing to clients - Ranging from targeted mailers, dynamic store displays and information kiosks (More about these later).

There is also the ability to send sound signals to just a single person, such that nobody standing around him/her can hear it. So, if there is somebody standing near the chips section in a grocery store, you can send him a message about a special sale on chips, with no one else hearing it.

I wonder if this can be extended to the airport with messages being sent directly to the concerned person with nobody else having their peace disturbed by them. So if Jane Doe needs to be on Flight 547 to Miami, she would get a customized message that only she can hear ....