Singapore Changi Airport claims title of world's best airport - again

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March 15, 2017

Singapore's Changi International Airport has pulled off a five-year winning streak to be named the world's best airport 2017, cementing its reputation as the gold-standard in airport experiences. 

Travelers polled for the 2017 Skytrax World Airport Awards gave Changi Airport top marks for turning, what can be, the most stressful part of the air travel experience into a standalone leisure destination in itself. 

Unlike many airports which can be sterile and generic, Changi Airport features everything from rooftop swimming pool, bamboo and butterfly gardens, to movie theaters, free foot massages, and free sight-seeing tours into the city for fliers with long airport layovers. 

Specs for the newest addition to the hub, Jewel Changi Airport, call for a sprawling 10-level complex that will boast an indoor rainforest, walking trails and gardens, and a 40-meter-tall Rain Vortex which will become the world's tallest indoor waterfall.

All will be enclosed in a glass, biodome complex. 

Construction is scheduled to be completed at the end of 2018.

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