Monday 5 September 2011

Cleaners of the Airport ("The Good")

Hello everyone, its been a while since i posted. The Internet service has been really poor of late. I haven't really gotten the hang of the whole word press thing. Today's post is the first of 3 parts namely
Cleaners of the Airport The Good (1), The Bad (2) & The Ugly (3)

The airport complex is very big and has so many people coming through on a daily / hourly basis. The amount of dirt that is generated in 24hrs can only be imagined. This means cleaning the airport is a major task that has to be done.

There are 2 types of cleaners in the Airport here, the first group handles individual airlines, while the second handle the actual airport premises open to all and sundry. Why are these cleaners "Good" ?, one may ask.

Primary Role: Their primary role which is to keep the Airport clean is a really good thing. I cannot imagine how it would look or smell like if the cleaners were off duty for 24hrs. The toilets would be a mess, litter would be every where, spills would be everywhere, it would be a complete mess.

But besides their primary role, they also have other "Unofficial Roles" like helping staff to buy food from the restaurants located outside the Airport premises.

They can also be called on to provide "Yellow Cards" which are required when travelling to certain (if not all) destinations. These yellow cards are suppose to be issued by the Airport Health Authorities, but have found their way into the hands of the cleaners.

Another "Good" that comes from the cleaners would be things like sellotape, jute bags, padlocks and other handy things that passengers may have forgotten to bring with them to the Airport for their travel.

At the boarding area, if you realise that you are low or out of credit, the Cleaners can be called on to provide some. A good number of them actually sell call credit at that side of the airport.

In all we can get almost anything necessary for travel with the help of the cleaners of the Airport so if you do travel, please show some respect to them.

Thank you,
@lereboy