Tim Roll-Pickering wrote:
James Farrar wrote:
Such as already exists in many airports -- a gap for each gate.

Yeah but that doen't allow for easy getting on an off. You're only likely to
see a retail outlet after you could conceivably have got off for it.

Are there any travelators in the shopping areas of airports?

Barcelona (which is huge and has more shops than your average shopping
centre) has a series of travelators, as described, with gaps so that
you can jump off when you see a shop that you like... (or your gate,
but catching a plane feels very much like a secondary activity)

Incidentally, I was in Paris last weekend, and was disappointed to see
that the high speed travolator (9km/h) at Invalides is out of service
and fenced off. Not sure if it's waiting to be repaired or if it just
turned out to be too dangerous!