A custom flap display project for LASTCALL, a flap-themed airport restaurant in Doha, Qatar, featuring one mechanical split flap menu board and two picture flap displays inspired by classic airport departure boards.
Project Information
Location: Hamad International Airport, Doha, Qatar
Client: LASTCALL
Use Case: Airport Restaurant Signage
Display Type: Split Flap Display + Picture Flap Display
Application: Menu board, pricing display, service display, and brand promotion
Design Style: Airport departure-board style mechanical display installation
Industry: Restaurant / Airport Retail / Food & Beverage
Flap Display Specs
Split Flap Display
Module Size: 15 cm × 10 cm
Layout: 8 Rows × 33 Columns
Total Modules: 264 Split Flap Modules
Overall Display Area: 120 cm (H) × 330 cm (W)
Application: Food categories, beverage items, menu information, and prices
Visual Style: Black flap surface with white characters and green custom graphics
Picture Flap Display for Visual Storytelling
Module Size: 30 cm × 30 cm
Layout: 3 Rows × 12 Columns
Total Modules: 36 Picture Flap Modules
Overall Display Area: 90 cm (H) × 360 cm (W)
Application: Service display and brand promotion
Picture Flap Display for Brand Promotion
Module Size: 30 cm × 30 cm
Layout: 2 Rows × 8 Columns
Total Modules: 16 Picture Flap Modules
Overall Display Area: 60 cm (H) × 240 cm (W)
Application: Promotional messages and airport-themed visual storytelling
Project Overview
LASTCALL is a flap-themed restaurant located inside Hamad International Airport in Doha, Qatar. The restaurant concept is inspired by classic airport departure boards, travel memories, airport announcements, and the nostalgic clicking sound of mechanical flap displays.
For this project, TS Display created one custom split flap display and two picture flap displays for LASTCALL. The main split flap display works as a mechanical restaurant menu board, showing food categories, drinks, smoothies, juices, and prices. The two picture flap displays are used for service presentation, airport dining messages, and brand promotion.
Inside the airport restaurant, announcements echo softly through the terminal. Then the rhythmic clicking sound of the split flap display drifts over, bringing travelers back to the golden age of airport departure boards. In that nostalgic moment, time seems to slow down.
In a modern airport filled with LED screens and digital signage, the real mechanical movement of a flap display feels different. It is physical, emotional, and memorable.
Design & Customization
The LASTCALL restaurant uses many flap-inspired design elements throughout the space. Some digital screens inside the restaurant even simulate the appearance of airport departure boards. However, the real mechanical split flap display and picture flap displays became the most authentic and eye-catching part of the environment.
The main split flap menu board was built with 8 rows and 33 columns of 15 cm × 10 cm split flap modules. This layout provides enough space to display menu items and prices clearly while keeping the classic airport departure-board style.
The black flap background, white characters, and green brand graphics were customized to match the LASTCALL visual identity. Custom icons such as drinks, food, shopping bags, airplanes, and service symbols make the display more playful and easier for international travelers to understand.
The design language follows the spirit of an airport departure board, but transforms it into a restaurant menu board, service display, and brand storytelling feature.
In addition to the split flap menu board, LASTCALL also selected two picture flap displays made with 30 cm × 30 cm modules. One larger picture flap display is 3 rows × 12 columns, and the other is 2 rows × 8 columns. These larger modules are ideal for service messages, brand visuals, and airport-inspired graphics.
Together, the split flap display and picture flap displays create a complete mechanical display system for the restaurant.
Mechanical Menu Board for an Airport Restaurant
The large split flap display is used as a custom mechanical restaurant menu board. It presents food and beverage information in a way that feels more engaging than a traditional static sign or LED menu screen.
When the flaps rotate, the display creates a rhythmic clicking sound and a strong sense of motion. Travelers walking through the airport can see the board changing, hear the mechanical sound, and immediately feel the retro atmosphere of a classic airport departure board.
For LASTCALL, the display is not only a menu board. It is part of the dining experience.
This type of custom split flap display is especially suitable for airport restaurants, cafés, bars, food courts, and retail spaces that want to create a stronger visual identity.
Picture Flap Display for Brand Promotion
The two picture flap displays use larger 30 cm × 30 cm picture flap modules. Compared with text-based split flap modules, picture flap modules are better for larger graphics, icons, promotional messages, and visual storytelling.
One picture flap display is used for service and brand presentation, while the other creates airport-inspired messages such as “LAST CALL” and other travel-related visuals.
The larger picture flap format gives the restaurant stronger visual impact from a distance. In a busy airport terminal, this helps the brand stand out and makes the restaurant easier to remember.
A Moment of Airport Nostalgia
Sitting inside the airport restaurant, airport announcements linger in the air.
The split flap display begins to move, and the familiar clicking sound fills the space. For a moment, travelers are taken back to the golden age of airport departure boards, when every journey began with the sound of flipping letters and changing destinations.
The movement, the sound, and the surrounding airport environment come together. In a busy international terminal, the flap display creates a rare moment of nostalgia, curiosity, and emotional connection.
Result
The completed flap display installation became a unique visual feature inside Hamad International Airport.
Many travelers stop to watch the mechanical movement, take photos, and record videos. For visitors who are used to seeing LED screens everywhere in airports, a real flap display feels fresh and nostalgic at the same time.
The project successfully combines restaurant signage, airport atmosphere, mechanical motion, and brand experience. It is more than a menu board. It has become part of LASTCALL’s restaurant identity and a bright visual landmark inside the airport.
Create Your Own Custom Flap Display
TS Display designs and manufactures custom split flap displays and picture flap displays for airports, restaurants, cafés, retail stores, museums, hotels, exhibitions, and brand spaces worldwide.
Whether you need a mechanical menu board, airport-style display, picture flap wall, or custom brand installation inspired by classic airport departure boards, we can help you create a flap display system that people will stop, watch, and remember.
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