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The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way humans act in public, and airports are no exception. The sets of warning signs placed within the area of the airports are one of the stakeholders’ efforts to limit people’s physical behavior. This study aims to describe the language choice used in formulating the signages that curb the protocol for preventing the transmission of the COVID-19 virus at the airports. Within the scope of linguistic landscape, the research highlights the choice of language used on the siganages both by the airport authority and the private parties. The data collected consist of the visual documentation of verbal signages related to the virus prevention protocols at one of the busiest airports in Indonesia, namely Ngurah Rai International Airport. The data are analyzed by distinguishing between top-down and bottom-up signs, which refers to the airport authority and the private parties. The result of this preliminary research shows that bilingual signages which consist of English and Indonesian are predominantly used in most of the signages provided by both the airport’s authority and the private parties, while minor monolingual signages in Indonesian or English only are also found in the airport area.