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This was subsequently cancelled. Heared that GoI put up a very tough stand.Singha wrote:Pvt airlines have asked for a bailout pkg.
Singha will be pleasedAccording to officials of Delhi International Airport Limited (DIAL), the company modernizing the Delhi airport, the construction of Terminal 3 (T3) will be achieved in a record time of 38 months.
“T5 at Heathrow and the new terminal at Beijing airport took 60 months each to build while constructing Terminal 3 at Changi airport in Singapore took 76 months,” said Mr I. P. Rao, DIAL’s Chief Executive Officer, Airport Development.
One reason for this efficiency is the six months of planning that DIAL undertook before work started in 2006.
The planning included working out specifications of what DIAL was looking for in the contracts that it signed with different companies.
So L&T, the Engineering, Procurement and Construction contractor, knew before-hand that it would have to import such machinery as Automated Sensor Pavers and 18-tonnes vibrator rollers to be used in the project.
Facilities
Right now, 70-80 per cent of the work at this new integrated domestic and international passenger terminal is over. Once complete, T3 will have glass facades that stretch over 170,000 square metres (42 acres), flooring of granite, stone and other materials will cover 260,000 square metres (65 acres) and the carpeting area will cover 170,000 square metres (42 acres).
“T3 will have 75 aerobridges for passenger embarkation and disembarkation and a five-level in-line baggage handling system (the first airport terminal in India to have a fully automated baggage handling system capable of handling over 10,000 bags an hour).
The check-in area will have 168 counters while the airport will also offer remote check-in facilities at select Delhi metro stations on the airport express-line,” Mr Rao said, during a walk through the project site.
Even as work on the Rs 9,000-crore project is going on, trial runs have begun and the newly set up baggage conveyor belt has been tested with a few pieces of luggage. Sixty-eight elevators, 31 escalators and 76 travelators are being put in place.
Also in the working stage is a coffee table book on the project. This will contain interesting details, right from the time DIAL officials were told that in certain areas on which they were planning to build the world-class airport there was nothing but a jungle where wild animals wandered free, to senior Government officials joking that DIAL should consider building a landing area for sea-planes instead of an airport as one end of the property had so much underground water!
But the project is underway and Delhi is going to have a new airport next year. So what will it mean for an average passenger travelling through the new terminal?
For starters, get ready for a six-lane road trip to the airport and back. If you do not want to drive, there will be the option of taking the metro train, which will stop close to the airport, allowing you to walk in.
DIAL officials claim that the check-in counters can be used both by domestic and international flyers. It is only after the check-in that the passengers will be segregated and guided to international and domestic departure areas.
Further, T3 is being planned as a modular building, which will have two huge piers on each side, through which passengers can board or disembark from an aircraft through aerobridges.
There will also be 4,000 CCTV cameras put up across the airport to support centralized monitoring and some of the elevators will have a scenic view of the outdoors.
There are already a few pics of the massive terminal on SSC, showing the more than mile long stretch of glass-fronted terminal building coming up.How does they compare in area, number of gates and pax capacity?“T5 at Heathrow and the new terminal at Beijing airport took 60 months each to build while constructing Terminal 3 at Changi airport in Singapore took 76 months,” said Mr I. P. Rao, DIAL’s Chief Executive Officer, Airport Development.
How do they manage to get a larger number of gates in Delhi than Beijing, despite having a smaller total area?Dileep wrote:How does they compare in area, number of gates and pax capacity?“T5 at Heathrow and the new terminal at Beijing airport took 60 months each to build while constructing Terminal 3 at Changi airport in Singapore took 76 months,” said Mr I. P. Rao, DIAL’s Chief Executive Officer, Airport Development.
IGI T3
Terminal Floor Area : 480,000m²
Number of Levels: 5
New Aerobridge Gates :74
Changi T3
Terminal Floor Area :430,000m³
Number of Levels : 7
New Aerobridge Gates :28 (8 are A380-compatible)
Heathrow T5A
Terminal Floor Area: 300,000 sqm
Number of Levels: 4
New Aerobridge Gates :47
Beijing T3
Terminal Floor Area: 986,000m² (incl 2 levels car park)
Number of Levels : 7
New Aerobridge Gates :66
is it an airport or an architectural wonder that you are talking aboutrachel wrote:
How do they manage to get a larger number of gates in Delhi than Beijing, despite having a smaller total area?
The advancement of HK has always been a great hummiliation to the communist government in Beijing. Also to a certain extent all Han chinease are not comfortable with the fact that the Brits made HK prosper like no other place in China. The communists are very very concerned with apperance of things. They build to impress.Singha wrote:HK maybe part of prc but its beijing and shanghai who have the political clout and want to be the next-gen
financial and trade centers eclipsing HK.
HK is not a designated 'showpiece city' to show the achievements of the Han.
Kingfisher Airlines’ losses for 2008-09 would have been higher but for the changes in accounting treatment by the airline with respect to aircraft lease payments, according to its auditors.
In a filing with the Bombay Stock Exchange last week, the airline reported a loss after tax of Rs 1,608.83 crore for the year ending March 31, 2009.
The auditors have noted that the company has changed the accounting treatment for maintenance rent that it is liable to pay its lessors.
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Blatant lie by unions, where as GOI is only proposing 50% reduction in variable pay (which is some times x2-4 of salary and runs into lakhs)."For the past two months, we have been working for betterment of the airlines, but the management is adamant on the 50 per cent cut in our salaries.
TATA will say tata to themkmkraoind wrote:AI employees to go on three-day hunger-strike
Blatant lie by unions, where as GOI is only proposing 50% reduction in variable pay (which is some times x2-4 of salary and runs into lakhs)."For the past two months, we have been working for betterment of the airlines, but the management is adamant on the 50 per cent cut in our salaries.
Instead of coming detailed list of demands, why cannot the unions make out publicly what "working for betterment of the airlines" they are doing. Definitely AI employees are in top slot of leech-chain pyramid. Better GOI privatize or sell it to its previous owners, TATA.
or TATA will say tata to half the employees if they decide to buy themrather bad news , this.AIRLINES SHY AWAY FROM MYSORE AIRPORT
Bangalore, Aug. 25 (OSR)- The Mysore Airport at Mandakalli may be ready by Sept. 15, but it is not sure whether aircrafts land or take off from there as airlines are not much enthusiastic about operating from the airport.
The Airports Authority of India (AAI) will ask the Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) to send a team to inspect the site at Mandakalli. Tentatively, the DGCA may visit Mysore in the first week of September.
It may be recalled here that Chief Minister B. S. Yeddyurappa had set a deadline of Sept. 15 to complete Phase I and operationalise the airport during Dasara festivities. But airlines are still not sure of Mysore’s potential. No airline has charted out any flightpath to Mysore.
The State Government is approaching various airlines and persuading them to start flight operations to Mysore on the opening day. Sources said that the government wants airlines to operate a Bangalore-Mysore flight. However, the airlines say that Bangalore-Mysore service is not feasible.
"It is pointless to have a flight from Mysore to Bangalore as the time of travel by air (including the landing and take-off time) will be less than 30 minutes," said a senior official of an airline. It will also take at least one hour to get to the Bangalore airport from the city and passengers would have to arrive one hour before the departure.
Capt. G.R. Gopinath, the pioneer of low-cost aviation in India, however, says a Mysore-Bangalore flight will get enough traffic for an airline to break even.
"The current traffic to Nanjangud, Madikeri and Ooty use the Coimbatore airport, which can be now serviced by the Mysore airport. Mysore also gets a lot of traffic from Maharashtra and Gujarat."
http://www1.timesofindia.indiatimes....ow/4930834.cms
Nihat wrote:I wonder how much of these losses can be attributed to the over zealous and debt funded takeover of Deccan and Sahara airlines. Hopefully Jet and Kingfisher have learned something.
Instead of demanding cuts in ATF taxes perhaps they can utilize their fleet better and keep non metro ops. in the realm of their low cost arm and operate the full service carriers on profitable routes.
There have been frequent failures of radars at the Chennai airport and it has been so for many years now and AAI has done nothing so far.tsriram wrote:Madras airport seems to be functioning on the prayers of the ATC, pilots and the passengers apparently -
We know work is going on in the airport for extension of secondary runway etc, but radar failing because of cable-cuts so many times is unacceptable.Airport sources said that in the past eight months this was the fourth time that the radar failed at the airport because of cable cuts
Meanwhile, two radars, the primary and the secondary one, would be replaced with new ones. Already, the AAI has started the process for acquiring the new radars. {We have been hearing this for at least two years now} Apart from this, an additional route radar would also be installed at the Chennai airport.
The Airports Authority of India (AAI) has awarded the automation work of air traffic control to a U.S.-based company Raytheon. . . . The automation system included automatic dependent surveillance with digital link capability to exchange communication between the tower and pilot over oceanic region. This is the first of its kind to be commissioned in South Asia, the source said.
The new system would help in reducing delay in the arrival and departure of aircraft. Similarly, there are different safety alert features such as Short Term Conflict Alert, Medium Term Conflict Detection and Enhanced Flight Plan Capability to handle more aircraft. The system would also have information in respect of surveillance, navigation, air traffic flow management, meteorological information on a real-time basis, the source said.
Sridhar wrote:The ratio of gates to terminal space depends on a number of factors. Whether
a. the airport is primarily for international flights (greater proportion of larger aircraft + more lingering time by passengers = more space),
b. the proportion of transiting passengers vs. those for whom it is a terminal point (more transiting passengers = more space)
c. the proportion of space dedicated to non-essential shopping areas and other non-core activities
and of course
e. the design of the terminal (depending on the design, more or less space would need to be dedicated to activities like passenger movement)
Hence a comparison between airports merely on ratio of terminal space to gates is hard without accounting for these factors.
If the president of the newly formed Jet Airways pilots' union is to be believed, the reason for some 400 of its members falling "sick" Tuesday, perhaps, was food poisoning.
I quite like the fact that new competition is finally emerging in the bread-n-butter market for the Big Two - single aisle mainline narrowbodies. A320 and B737 families may have to put up with some serious competition if the likes of the above mentioned Comac C919, Bombardier CSeries and the Embraer 195 mount a serious enough challenge.kmkraoind wrote:China unveils jet at Asia's biggest air show
China Says First Jet to Cost Less Than Boeing, Airbus
Really I cannot resist without appreciating Chinese. Vy hook or crook they are developing at faster pace at every sphere of life. While we still struggle to build a 14-seater aircraft, Chinese are not far away challenging behemoths like Boeing and Airbus. It really saddens me that though Chinese growth and GDP are equal to India's during early 1950s, they are now surpassed us with a huge difference.
