Sultan Azlan Shah Airport Can Do Better

Sultan Azlan Shah Airport..nice but it can be further improved

 Sultan Azlan Shah Airport is a beautiful airport. It was built just ten years ago and refurbished around several years later to cater for the influx of tourist due to the increase of direct flights from Singapore.

SAS Airport is the first glimpse of Perak that greets the incoming visitor and should leave a good impression upon departure.

Last weekend I had to say my goodbye to a friend at the front door of the airport. Due to the pandemic only passengers were allowed in the terminal.

As I returned to the car park I noticed something odd. The car park area was shabby and neglected in some places and trimmed and neat in most other areas.  

Neat on one side but shabby on the other

I walked around and noticed that it was the same, 60% neat 40% untidy throughout the car park garden.

Needs regular maintenance

This drain emitted a foul sewage odour when i was photographing the area

WHY CAN’T IT BE 100% NEAT AND TIDY ALL THROUGHOUT.

This garden opposite the car park was neat and trimmed ...

..and a couple were taking photos 

Surprisingly the outer garden was neat and trimmed (except the drains) so why was the airport garden shabby. I could not understand this. Surely they use the same kebun / gardener and if they don’t the airport manager should have a say on the upkeep.

The carpark area has been the same since starting. Can't it be upgraded

The airport is ten years old. Can the garden be upgraded to look like a lush garden with healthy palms and trees that don’t look starved and manicured dividers instead of weeds.

Sultan Azlan Shah airport should compliment the other products around Perak so that visitors will feel privileged to have toured the state. 

I wish Perak Tourism would see beyond marketing and maintain the overall product. 

KC