✈️ AIRPORT DIGITAL SIGNAGE

Digital Signage for Airports

Twenty minutes before boarding, the gate changes. Now you need to know how many screens still show the old one, and who is free to go and fix them. With Look DS it is a browser tab and a minute of somebody's time. Check-in, security, the concourse, baggage claim and the curbside outside all sit in the same account, but what plays in each of them is up to you.

One account for the whole terminal

One dashboard. Hit one gate, a whole pier, or every screen on the field.

Flight data that updates itself

Flight Schedule pulls live arrivals and departures onto the panel by itself. That is one job nobody has to do by hand anymore.

Playback that survives an outage

Lose the connection and cached media carries on playing. The player catches up once the link is back.
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  • No credit card required. From $6 per screen/month with volume pricing.

  • Runs on Android, Windows, Linux, Tizen, webOS, Raspberry Pi and more.

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Run every screen in the terminal from one browser

Airport digital signage gives operators and terminal teams centralized control of flight information, wayfinding, safety notices, retail promotions and advertising across every terminal screen through one cloud-based CMS.
There is nothing to reprint and no need to visit each screen. A gate change, security notice or new duty-free campaign can be updated in a browser and delivered precisely to its tagged screens, from one pier to every terminal on the field.

Sound familiar?

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      Gate changes that reach the screens after the fact

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      You cannot tell which displays are actually on

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      Someone still walks the zone with a USB stick

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      Agents fielding the same five questions all shift

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What you get with Look

    • One secure dashboard for the whole terminal

    • Remote screenshots, plus an alert when a player drops

    • Screens grouped by zone, pier and terminal

    • Cached media that plays right through an outage

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From one gate screen to the whole terminal

Connect a player, build a playlist and publish. The same three steps power a single check-in board or a network of several hundred screens across the terminal.
  • Connect your screens

    Install the Look App on a compatible display or plug in a Look HDMI Player, then pair the screen with the 6-digit device code it shows.
  • Build and schedule the playlists

    Departure panels, safety notices, retail spots: group them into playlists and set the hours and weekdays each one should run, in the site's own time zone rather than yours.
  • Publish by zone or by tag

    Tags decide who gets what, so you can push to check-in, to a single pier, to the baggage hall or out to the parking lot without anything else on the field noticing.
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Where digital signage goes in an airport

A check-in queue, boarding gate, baggage claim belt and curbside serve the same passenger at four different moments. Look runs them all from one account, with a dedicated layout, schedule and publishing permissions for every zone.

Check-in halls and departures

Answer the questions people join the queue with.
Above the desks and self-service kiosks, screens answer the questions passengers usually ask an agent: where their airline checks in, today's departures, baggage rules and the flight's check-in cutoff time.
A multi-zone layout holds the departures panel, a queue notice and the clock on one screen at once. For a hall video wall, Look feeds the whole thing as a single content source, and the processor setup you already have stays untouched.
Best for: Airline desk zones, departures, baggage rules, check-in cutoff, queue notices

Security screening and queues

The queue looks worse than it is. Tell people so.
By the time a passenger reaches the belt, the liquids and the laptop should already be out of the bag. Screens down the lane say so early enough for that to happen, which is why fewer bags come back for a second look.
Wait creeps past 25 minutes. The duty manager types the number into the CMS, hits publish, and every screen tagged to that checkpoint carries it. Nobody has to walk the terminal with a laptop under one arm.
Best for: Prohibited items, tray and laptop rules, lane status, posted wait times, fast-track signage

Concourses, gates and boarding areas

The next flight, where people wait for it.
Gate screens carry the flight, the boarding status and the delay. Concourse displays run the full departures list beside the forecast and a news channel.
Wayfinding stays yours to edit. Gates, restrooms, the transfer desk, all of it, so a pier that closes on Thursday isn't still signposted on Monday. Hang a touch display and the Button widget makes it an information point: one prepared scene per tap.
Best for: Gate and boarding status, departures lists, transfer directions, connection information, news and weather

Baggage claim and arrivals

Belt numbers first, everything else after.
The baggage claim hall answers one question first: which belt. Belt assignments, arrival status and updates on delayed or oversized baggage stay prominent, with customs and exit directions displayed underneath.
Then the screens hand people over to the city. Trains and taxis, hotels, a couple of things worth doing. And whoever is stuck waiting at the barrier gets the meeting point spelled out.
Best for: Belt assignment, arrival status, baggage delays, customs and exit routes, meeting points

Retail, duty-free, lounges and F&B

Commercial screens that respect the flight clock.
Duty-free offers, food-court menus and lounge information live in the same account as the operational content. Schedule them by daypart and the early crowd sees breakfast while the evening wave sees something else entirely.
Advertising turns into inventory you can sell properly. Every campaign carries its own start and end dates, so no one has to remember to pull it, and the per-device reports settle any argument about what ran where.
Best for: Duty-free promotions, food-court menus, lounge information, advertiser campaigns, brand takeovers

Ground transport, parking and curbside

Guide drivers before they block the lane.
Forecourt and parking screens give drivers the essentials in ten seconds: open decks, drop-off and pickup lanes, rates, payment options and the walking route to departures.
Outdoors and behind glass you will want commercial displays, mostly for the brightness and the temperature range. Look runs on whichever platform that hardware uses.
Best for: Deck and lane guidance, rates and payment, taxi and rideshare, car rental, transit and rail links

To use Look digital signage software

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What our customers say

Real businesses, real results.
Captera Rating
4.9
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In terms of using the system, the other options that I found were a little clunky and Look was not only affordable but really easy for us to deploy and get up and running.
Michael Bowers
Look digital signage has definitely made a drastic change for good in our project making things a lot easier and efficient. I hundred percent recommend this solution to everyone involved in this type of business.
Ricardo Ante
We have 22 locations and zero issues with Look software. It’s so easy to use and has a lot of useful tools that we utilize in our day-to-day business. All-in-all, our experience was top-notch.
Ervin Piotrowski
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Free templates

Free templates for terminal and curbside screens

Start from a canvas a designer already built. The set covers what terminal screens really run all day, from flight and gate panels to directional boards, safety notices, duty-free and food-court promos, lounge info and ad frames. Set your colors, fonts and the airport logo once; everything after that inherits them.
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Built-in apps

Apps that keep terminal screens current on their own

An app drops into a playlist like any other item and then looks after itself, so flight numbers, forecasts and headlines refresh without anyone touching a keyboard. If the connection goes, cached images and videos carry on playing and the apps catch up as soon as it is back.

Frequently asked questions about airport digital signage

What is airport digital signage?

Airport digital signage is the network of screens that carries a terminal's passenger communication: flight information, wayfinding, safety notices, advertising, and everything in between. One CMS drives all of it. Check-in, security, gates, baggage claim, arrivals --- content reaches every zone from a single place. The market for these systems was worth roughly $1.08 billion in 2025.

What is the difference between airport digital signage and FIDS?

FIDS is one slice of airport digital signage. It handles flight data specifically --- departures, arrivals, gates, delays, boarding status, baggage belts. A full signage system covers all of that plus wayfinding, advertising, emergency messages, weather, and branded content. On the data side, IATA's AIDX is the XML messaging standard airlines, airports, and third parties use to exchange operational flight information.

Can digital signage display real-time flight information?

It can, provided there is a data source behind it. Live departures and arrivals, gate changes, delays, cancellations, boarding status --- all of it can reach the screens in real time. Look ships a FIDS app that displays flight data alongside the rest of your content. One caveat worth stating plainly: in a live terminal, accuracy is only ever as good as the operational flight-data feed you are pulling from.

Can airport digital signage connect to an existing FIDS or AODB?

Usually, yes --- if there is a compatible interface or feed to connect to. Most airport systems exchange flight data over APIs, XML or JSON feeds, or the IATA AIDX standard. LOOK handles FIDS output and embedded web content. What it cannot do is promise a clean hookup to every AODB, airline system, or proprietary FIDS in the field; that part gets confirmed during integration planning.

Can Look Digital Signage replace an existing airport FIDS?

Partly. Look covers the screen-management and content-delivery layer well. Whether it can stand in for a complete operational FIDS depends on the airport's data architecture and what the integration actually demands --- a traditional FIDS takes a continuous feed from airline and airport operational systems, in many cases around the clock. Before treating any signage CMS as a full FIDS replacement, check how it handles flight-data ingestion, redundancy, update logic, and failover.

Does airport digital signage keep working if the internet goes down?

Screens keep running. Each player stores its media locally, so the loop that was already downloaded carries on playing through an outage and passengers see nothing unusual. Live data is the exception. Anything that depends on the feed, such as a gate change or a new delay, waits until the connection or the upstream data source is restored.

Can one system manage screens across an entire airport?

That is the point of a centralized CMS. Terminals, gates, lounges, retail, baggage --- one interface covers all of them. Administrators can push different playlists and schedules to individual screens or whole groups without losing a common content standard across the estate. For scale reference: LOOK currently runs more than 60,000 screens for over 11,000 users in 120+ countries.

Can flight information and advertising appear on the same screen?

Yes --- you split the display into content zones. Departures sit in one area; retail, lounge, car-rental, or tourism promotions run in another. Edinburgh Airport did exactly this with a 6 × 2.5-meter LED display carrying real-time flight information, wayfinding, and advertising in one installation.

Can airport digital signage be used for wayfinding?

Wayfinding is one of the strongest use cases. Screens direct passengers to gates, check-in, security, baggage claim, lounges, restaurants, and ground transport. The format ranges from a simple directional display to an interactive map wired into live airport data. Philadelphia International, for instance, integrated its wayfinding kiosks with Amadeus flight data so that navigation responds to the passenger's actual flight.

Can airport screens display emergency and safety messages?

Yes. This is usually one of the first things an airport asks about. Evacuation instructions, security notices, severe-weather warnings, operational announcements: all of it can go out through the same platform that runs the rest of the estate. The design question is different, though. Emergency content is not a campaign, so it needs its own workflow, its own approvals and a route that bypasses whatever is scheduled. Most airport FIDS platforms already allow that override. What decides whether it works on the day is how fast a staff member can publish and whether the right people have permission to do it.

Can airport digital signage support multiple languages?

Yes. Three approaches are common. You can build a separate layout per language, rotate languages on a schedule, or run several at once in different areas of one screen. In an international terminal this is not really a nice-to-have, since a large share of passengers will not read the airport's primary language at all. Most FIDS handle multilingual output natively. Beyond that, clear pictograms and terminology used the same way everywhere carry travelers who are not reading the text.

How should airport digital signage be designed for accessibility?

Passengers have to read the screen and reach it. Everything else follows. Strong contrast, type sized for the distance people actually stand at, and a mounting height that suits the user rather than the installer. Kiosks are harder, since a touch interface has to be operated and not only seen. Design against real figures: ADA guidance in the US caps touchscreen controls at 48 inches above the floor, and 70% contrast between text and background is the usual minimum. In Europe, EN 301 549 and the European Accessibility Act apply.

What hardware can be used for airport digital signage?

Commercial displays, LED walls, smart signage screens, interactive kiosks, or a plain TV with a media player behind it --- all of these work. LOOK runs on Android, Windows, Linux, macOS, LG webOS, Samsung Tizen, Fire OS, Google TV, Amazon Signage, and Raspberry Pi. The practical upside is that an airport can keep the compatible hardware it already owns, or add inexpensive HDMI players, without committing the whole network to one display manufacturer.

Can airport digital signage run on-premise instead of in the cloud?

Yes. Look has an on-premise option for organizations that need to keep infrastructure, data, and network access under their own control --- which describes a lot of airports with restricted networks or strict IT and cybersecurity policies. The on-premise build keeps role-based access, SSO, scheduling, and offline-ready playback, so the whole signage environment sits inside the airport's private infrastructure.

How secure should an airport digital signage system be?

Signage belongs in the IT estate. Once someone else controls a player, they control what a concourse of passengers reads, and nothing on the screen gives it away. Ordinary practice closes most of that exposure: authentication, encrypted connections, patching, network segmentation, monitoring, and a list of who really holds admin rights. LOOK's on-premise build supports role-based access and SSO. Central management helps quietly too, because far fewer screens ever need someone standing in front of them.

How much does airport digital signage cost?

Look starts at $6 per screen per month. Larger networks and on-premise deployments are priced individually. That number buys software and nothing else. Hardware, installation, networking, commercial displays, kiosks and the integration work with airport operational systems all sit outside it, and on a terminal-scale project they will usually cost more than the subscription does. Budget on total cost of ownership instead. Software, screens, players, installation, integration, maintenance and support. Comparing CMS list prices alone tells you very little about what a project will actually cost.

How can airports measure the ROI of digital signage?

Two ledgers, and they behave differently. The operational one holds screen uptime, how fast content reaches the estate, the accuracy of what passengers read, staff workload, and reaction time when a flight moves. Proof-of-play pays for itself, because nothing else proves that paid or mandated content ran where it was booked. The commercial ledger is blunter: advertising inventory and campaign revenue get counted. Passenger benefit belongs to neither and turns up sideways, in wayfinding queries and satisfaction scores.

How long does it take to deploy airport digital signage?

The CMS is rarely what holds a project up. Screen count, physical installation, network readiness and integration with operational systems set the schedule. A small standalone network can be configured in a matter of days. A terminal-wide FIDS rollout involving AODB integration and redundancy testing is a different kind of project, and it should be planned as one. Look's 14-day trial needs no credit card, which makes it easy to test the CMS and the content workflows first and size the rollout afterward.