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Pig strays on to runway at Nagpur delaying flight

These incidents have been increasing recently all over the country.
The landing of Mumbai-Nagpur Jet airways flight was delayed by nearly ten minutes on Wednesday after a pig strayed into the runway at the Ambedkar international airport here, airport sources said.

The flight, with 135 passengers on board, including Maharashtra PWD minister Anil Deshmukh and senior politician Ranjit Deshmukh, aborted the landing for a while this morning and hovered in the sky before coming down safely after the animal was driven away, sources said.

This is the third instance in a fortnight when an animal obstructed flight landing at the airport, they added.
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Pigs, dogs, wolves, people getting knocked down by vehicles inside airport - becoming like our roads..no wonder since airports are resembling bus stands these days.
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Seems like BA took beef off domestic flights. Price could have been the reason, though they ascribe it to 'religious concerns'.

British Airways takes beef off the menu to avoid offending Hindus
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cbelwal wrote:Seems like BA took beef off domestic flights. Price could have been the reason, though they ascribe it to 'religious concerns'.

British Airways takes beef off the menu to avoid offending Hindus
Price could have been the only reason. I don't know of any Hindu groups which might have lobbied to have taken Beef off the menu. Beef + Rising Oil would have hit margins. And the Hindu groups have been made the fall guy. :roll:
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Isn't chicken/fish more expensive than beef?
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Choked airports: US team shows way out
NEW DELHI: The US is coming to the aid of passengers fed up with hovering over choked Indian airports like Delhi and Mumbai.

On Friday, American aerospace major Boeing shared its expertise with authorities here on more effective utilization of airspace by allowing planes to safely fly closer at congested airports and enable faster touchdowns.

India has decided to start switching over to the new system by early July and in first phase it will be done at the three most congested airports at Delhi, Mumbai and Ahmedebad. The actual reduction will take place once all stakeholders — pilots, ATCs and airports — are trained for the system in a few months.

Boeing’s presentation, made at the behest of DGCA and AAI, came just as an eight-member team of US’ Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) finished its tour of India and also as an American consulting company, Maitre Corp, gave its final report on "performance based navigation" that would allow reducing separation from eight to five nautical miles between planes approaching to land at congested places.

Armed with Maitre report, which has been circulated to all airlines, and Boeing’s knowhow on how to actually implement the same, India is planning to start switching over to the new system by early July. "One of the early things happening under the aviation cooperation programme between India and US is that Maitre has finalized its report for better effective management of airspace at Delhi and Mumbai. The report, a roadmap for that, has been given to AAI and DGCA. The AAI will start implementing new procedures in a month. This will lead to reduction in separation between aircraft and save time once the preparedness is in place," said aviation secretary Ashok Chawla.

Boeing, which has considerable experience of e-enabling planes, gave its know how on performance-based navigation.

"The new procedures will help fix planes’ position vis-a-vis ground with radio signals using satellites and ground radars. It will help navigate planes at closer distance in both difficult terrain or congested airspace. It is similar to using technology to help planes land using instrument landing system category II or III. All this will help planes fly safely at much lesser separation than currently maintained. Boeing gave a complete overview on how the new system is to be used," said an official. The presentation was made to airline pilots, ATCs and aviation authorities.

Before winding up its India visit, the eight-member FAA team identified the key areas of support with India. These include radar network, airworthiness and airport and ATC management. The team also visited ATC towers in Delhi, Mumbai and Jaipur to assess the actual ground situation. The new performance-based navigation system will be of great help in Delhi and greatly increase the capital’s capacity as the third runway is soon going to be operational. In Mumbai, however, it will help increase runway capacity but the authorities made it clear that the financial capital needs a second airport desperately, at the earliest, as there is no alternative to that.
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The Comrades in Dileep's backyard, have created something very nice. Time for the rest of India to complain to comrades Yechuri & Karat for sequestering nice digs for themselves in god's country...

courtesy sanjupalayat @ ssc CALICUT INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT

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Man says JetBlue made him sit on toilet
NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City man is suing JetBlue Airways Corp. for more than $2 million because he says a pilot made him give up his seat to a flight attendant and sit on the toilet for more than three hours on a flight from California.

Gokhan Mutlu, of Manhattan's Inwood section, says in court papers the pilot told him to "go 'hang out' in the bathroom" about 90 minutes into the San Diego to New York flight because the flight attendant complained that the "jump seat" she was assigned was uncomfortable, the lawsuit said.

Mutlu was traveling on a a "buddy pass," a standby travel voucher that JetBlue employees give to friends, from New York to San Diego on Feb. 16, and returned to New York on Feb. 23, the lawsuit said.

Initially, Mutlu was told a flight attendant had taken the last seat on the plane, but then he was advised she would sit in the employee "jump seat," meaning he could have the last seat, the lawsuit said.

The pilot told him 1½ hours into the five-hour flight that he would have to relinquish the seat to the flight attendant, court papers say. But the pilot said that Mutlu could not sit in the jump seat because only JetBlue employees were permitted to sit there, the lawsuit said.

When Mutlu expressed reluctance to go sit in the bathroom, the pilot, who was not named in the lawsuit, told him that "he was the pilot, that this was his plane, under his command that (Mutlu) should be grateful for being on board," the lawsuit said.

When the aircraft hit turbulence and passengers were directed to return to their seats, but "the plaintiff had no seat to return to, sitting on a toilet stool with no seat belts," court papers say.

Some time later, a male flight attendant knocked on the restroom door and told Mutlu he could return to his original seat, court papers say.

Mutlu's lawsuit, filed Friday in Manhattan's state Supreme Court, says JetBlue negligently endangered him by not providing him with a seat with a safety belt or harness, in violation of federal law.

A JetBlue spokesman declined comment on the lawsuit Monday.
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Whatz the passenger's nationality?
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Gokhan sounds like a Turkish name.
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yep definitely turkish...cant be a native born Beefy Bob for sure.
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There are always two sides to every story.

I wouldn't be surprised if the pilot was kidding...and this guy took it seriously...There are plenty of experiences where I have seen this happen. The anglo-saxxon sense of humar is sometimes off the radar for several people.

else...

It's unfortunate if the pilot meant what he said...that might be one of his last flights on jet blue as a pilot...

Lets wait and see....
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Leaking plane toilet annoys DGCA
NEW DELHI: Your childhood fears about leaking plane toilets have come true. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) recently went on a surprise visit to IGI to check the airworthiness of planes and overall airport safety. The underbelly of a domestic airline’s, Airbus A-320, was found to be covered with blue paint.

A surprised DGCA team conducted investigation and found that the front toilet’s blue flush fluid was leaking and must have got stuck (frozen, rather) when the plane was flying and then got evenly spread out on the bottom with air flow.

"We found that the toilet was improperly serviced and the underbelly from nose to empennage (end) had a coating of blue fluid," said an official. The DGCA has asked the airline to explain this improper maintenance.

In fact, the team found general slackness among most organizations on need to attend to leaks whether from toilet in this case or the more common hydraulic leaks that were found in some other planes. Despite posing a serious safety hazard, some airlines were not found attending to hydraulic leaks urgently.

Two planes of as many airlines were found to be undergoing maintenance work without the engineer being present at site. Other important parts like landing gear safety pins were found to be totally faded in a Boeing 737 of a private airline. All these just pointed to one fact — many airlines don’t pay attention to servicing of their aircraft and maintenance of ground handling equipment.

The team also found that despite a number of lives being lost in accidents on operational area side, the problem of congestion and rash driving still existed at IGI. Sources said once planes are parked with nose towards terminal on domestic terminal side, very little space remains for the hundreds of vehicles that ply inside the airport. Many vehicles were found without speed governors and being driven at over 15 kmph, the speed limit. Instances of vehicles being driven outside their tracks and overtaking discriminately were common, said sources.

Apart from rash driving, other factors were also found contributing to making the airside a dangerous place. A large number of trolleys and ground handling equipment was found lying haphazardly near aircraft which not only poses a threat to aircraft operations but also is an obstruction for refuelling, servicing and passenger embarkation and disembarkation. What’s more, many baggage trolleys were found without braking systems. Which means that when strong winds lash the airport, these trolleys can hit aircraft something that happens regularly at most Indian airports.

The DGCA also found acute congestion of aircraft parked in front of general aviation hangars. At times planes and choppers operate from parking space itself, which is not only a safety hazard but also source of dust contamination to other aircraft parked nearby, said sources.

When contacted, DGCA chief Kanu Gohain said: "This was a regular surveillance we carried out at IGI some time back. The idea of these surprise checks is to find out if there are any deficiencies in maintenance. If any such thing is noticed, airlines have to take action against their negligent officers."
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The Air Deccan 2:30 minutes ad.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4BJbJPSbkk

I hadn't seen this on TV. I read about it in a magazine article about the guy who created it. Then found it on youtube.

Murali, the actor plays the carpenter, is one of my favourite actors.
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Bangalore's new airport: help or hindrance?

On May 23, Bangalore’s new international airport will be open for business. It’ll be swish and modern, for sure. Built by a consortium that also built the Zurich airport, plus Siemens and India’s best infrastructure project company Larsen & Toubro. Cost $625 million.

Flights from all over the world will no longer land at the crowded, shabby old HAL airport, in Bangalore city. They’ll come into this swanky new facility on the outskirts of the city.

Those who are rejoicing should take pause.
For the commuter’s pain is about to be exacerbated, not relieved.
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Dileep wrote:The Air Deccan 2:30 minutes ad.
That's a fabulous ad. So very true also.
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Indian airports make steady journey towards 24 hrs operations
Sat, May 17 12:42 PM
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Airports at major metros are becoming operational 24 hours with more daylight flights being introduced by global carriers following the government's insistence to this effect. The efforts by the Civil Aviation Ministry in this direction have now started bearing fruit as most of the global airlines operating to the country are adding new day-time services, official sources said.

Earlier, most of the international flights used to operate at night. India, a member of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), had moved a paper in the UN body almost two years ago suggesting that the night curfew at many European and US airports should be done away with.

Government's basic contention was that this practice of the western nations was unfair to airlines and travellers from the developing world, especially those in the east. India's move received a lot of support, especially from several Asian nations, sources said.

The Civil Aviation Ministry also took a firm stand at the global fora stating that the Indian carriers should not be restricted from operating flights from western airports during night, which land here during the day. The night curfew in the western airports also implied that flights could not depart from India in the afternoon or evening, sources said.

The aviation authorities in the west were asked to consider the consequences of India closing down its airports at night due to concerns of noise and pollution, they added. The move was also aimed at de-congesting the major airports, particularly those in Mumbai and Delhi which used to handle most of the international traffic at that time.
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good move. did you know India is the 2nd largest market for BA after USA ?

our dong is growing thicker and its time we used it in the right orifices .

screams of pain and complaints of "india misusing its new found power"
will ensue like ICC , but they will fall in line.

US has used its market power for decades to get whatever it wants.
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isnt it hypocritical for IT 'leaders' to be whining about HAL airport now on
basis of business clients from abroad being affected by the harsh commute
and in other forums saying the HAL apt be kept open for short haul LCC
flights.

one implies international widebody flights and other means primarily
ATR72 from hyd, chennai, coimbatore, kochi, triv

I figure of Tata group had a major presence in BLR they'd have done a lot
more than the IT parasites who just know how to pocket their tax breaks
and whine daily....each of their kids have 100s crores of esops and they
give us lectures on "giving back" and "socialism"
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any one saw pics of proposed kolkata international airport.

courtesy KolkataUSA SSCI.

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BJETS places $330 mn order for ten business jets.

Indian fractional air charter firm BJETS has placed a major order with the US company Hawker Beechcraft to acquire ten Hawker 4000 business jets worth over 330 million dollars.

This new order, with options for five additional aircraft, compliments BJETS' previous order for the purchase of 11 Hawker 900XP and nine 850XP business jets for their fractional fleet throughout India and Southeast Asia.

BJETS, a private company based in Mumbai and Singapore, provides fractional and block charters to corporate houses and high networth individuals. It has a flight operations centre based in Hyderabad.

Fractional ownership means a person or a company can make part payment for the aircraft and operate it in accordance with their own requirement.

BJETS CEO Mark Baier said the key factors which led them to select Hawker business jets were its advanced design, performance and exceptional cabin which "surpassed the standards we expect for our customers".

"We are delighted to once again provide BJETS the best aircraft in the industry for their private jet travel services," Brad Hatt, President (Commercial Aircraft) of the Kansas-based Hawker Beechcraft Corporation, said.

India, according to Hawker Beechcraft, is the third largest geographic region after the US and Brazil, for the sale of its products, a release said.

The Hawker 4000 is a "super-midsized aircraft with long-range features", which can attain a height of 37,000 feet. It is powered by Pratt&Whitney's PW308A engines.
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Post by Neela »

Got this through mail:


BIAL commencement notice


MOCA has informed all Airlines the Official date for commencement of full commercial operations from 23 may 08 from the new BIAL Airport in Devanahalli,Bangalore.

The three key points mentioned are....

1#All flights scheduled to depart after 0001 hours local time of May 23
2008 will operate from the new BIAL airport.

2#All flights that have a departure after 0001 hours local time of May
23 2008 from BIAL are accepted for landing at the New BIAL airport on the 22 may 08.

3#All flights that have a departure until 2359 hours of 22 may 08 will operate out of HAL airport.

User Development Fee of 1070/- relevant for International departures.

During the period 23MAY until 30JUN, UDF is INR1070 for INTERNATIONAL Passengers payable at the special "UDF counter" in the checkin area.
Mode of payment can be cash/credit card.(visa and master cards only)

Effective 01JUL onwards, all UDF charges will be a part of the ticket tax with a code IN.
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Regarding the pics of the proposed Kolkata airport above, it seems a little odd to see so much glass being used. The huge front is all glass and a lot of the roof is also glass (pic. of the interior). In a hot-house like Kolkata, the last thing you want is a green-house type construction. With all the solar radiation (heat, not just light), the thing is going warm up like an oven, and the a/c units will have to do extra work to cool down the huge interior space. No hint of a tint on the glass, anywhere. Seem a bit odd. Unless the glass facade faces Northwards, but that does not seem so, from one outdoor pic. (if you believe the shadow). The other funny thing...no desis in any of the pictures, anywhere.
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Neela wrote:Got this through mail:

Somebody forwarded this to me -

The following means of transport are available from day one:
· AC Volvo Buses operated by BMTC to key destinations in the city (Indicative price to MG Road: Rs. 120).
· Reliable professional Taxi services operated by MERU and Easycabs, with a metered fare (Indicative Rate to MG Road: Rs. 600).
· Premium Limousine Cars operated by Hertz and Akbar Travels – Cars with drivers as well as self driven cars are available.

For exact timings please log on to
www.bengaluruairport.com or check at the
Airport Shuttle Bay. In general, the frequency of
the buses is one every 30 minutes per route.

Shuttle Routes

Route - 1: Whitefield
Route - 2: Electronics City
Route - 3: HAL Airport
Route - 4: Jeevan Bhima Nagar
Route - 5: Koramangala
Route - 6: J.P. Nagar 6th Phase
Route - 7: M.C.T.C. Bus Station
Route - 8: Hebbal
Route - 9: Kempegowda Bus Station
Indicative rate to M.G. Road: Rs. 120

Porter Services

• Rs. 70 minimum charges for upto three bags
• Rs. 25 for every additional bag
• Rs. 250 for group baggage (12bags)
• No tips
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Brace yourself for yet another delay in opening BIAL. Talk about postponing at last moment, only the cabal of dorks/bureaucrats who have little regard for precision and conserving tax money, yeah, throw your weight around be a complete nuisance to the Indian public because you can't carry out your duty, just look at the excuses, gosh..

State government asked for the delay

[quote]The Election Commission is understood to have instructed the civil aviation ministry to delay the launch of the Bengaluru International Airport (BIA) on a request from the State government to do so as it wanted additional police/security forces to be deployed at the airport.

This was apparently because of the demonstrations that have been taking place in Bangalore both for keeping open the existing HAL Airport as well as the demand for naming of the airport after Bangalore founder Kempe Gowda. Since more forces were needed to tackle any contingency situation, a day’s delay would help the authorities to mobilise forces from in and around Bangalore as well as from other states, sources in the ministry revealed..

The sources made it clear that the EC had no reservations against the airport opening on May 23.

The delay took both the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) as well as the Airports Authority of India (AAI) by surprise. DGCA Director General Kanu Gohain declined to go into the reasons for the delay.

“We have been taken by surprise. From our end, we had informed the ministry that we are fully equipped for the launch,â€
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TOI page 2 will have all relevant details on opening day I can assure you.

but Rakshana Vedike activists and city taxi drivers are both having
complaints and might disrupt the proceedings to get publicity.

now INFY & Biocon CEO has to travel from koramangala to d'halli - woo hoo.
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My flight is landing at 8.00pm if it is on time, which in India it rarely is. No idea where it will land whether in the old garbage dump or in the new robbers den. And no information from BIAL.

If the amateurish, ugly and incompetently built BIAL website is any indication, we are going to pay top dollars for a shitty airport. Who is the genius that decided to show picture of a #$*) truck on the runway and not a plane!!!

That is not bad because anyway it follows the general trend in BLR - pay some of the highest prices in the world for some of the most third class stuff.
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Drive down to see a `wonderful' airport
Bangalore: As he walked towards the entrance wearing a grey tie on a white shirt and black trousers, one of the four police personnel on guard stepped towards him. But the man displayed his identity card to all the four and smiled at them.

As he walked inside, the youngest of the personnel asked his senior: "Sir, who is this foreigner?" Pat came the reply: "He is the man who built this new airport. He is Albert Brunner. Get his face etched in your memory."

Inside the swanky glass-and-steel terminal building, the spotlight was on Brunner. "Welcome to the new Bengaluru International Airport, we are ready to open our wonderful airport tomorrow," he announced.


On Friday midnight, an Indian carrier will fly the first aircraft from the much-awaited airport to Singapore.

The announcement, indeed, was a moment of triumph for this chief executive officer of Bangalore International Airport Limited (BIAL), who has battled several odds in adding the new infrastructure to the southern city.

"But now everything is in place," said Brunner, adding "the masterplan of the airport has been developed to fulfil the need for an operationally-efficient and passenger-friendly airport for Bangalore. The airport can handle 12 million passengers per annum and the land at our disposal allows us to develop the airport to a capacity of about 50 million passengers per year."

"It will take about 60-80 minutes from anywhere in Bangalore to the new airport," he said. Except for completion of work on a loop that would facilitate traffic flow towards Hyderabad, connectivity to the airport has ceased to be a grey area. The three modes of transport to get to the airport are taxies, personal cars and buses.

While Merucabs and Easycabs take care of the taxi operations at the airport, Hertz and Akbar Travels rent out luxury cars. State-run Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) has introduced 40 Vayu Vajra air-conditioned Volvo buses on nine different routes in the city to ferry people up to the terminal building of the airport. The fare in these buses ranges between Rs 70 and Rs 200. BMTC will also ply 100 Suvarna non-AC buses to the airport.

For those who use their personal cars, parking is not a problem at the new airport. Brunner said: "Land side traffic is really difficult to handle at the airport, so we have given a lot of thought to the parking system. Our airport can provide parking for 2,000 cars."


Unlike the existing HAL airport, where free parking at the departure terminal is just for 90 seconds, it is 10 minutes at the new airport. If a car is parked for two hours, the owner has to pay Rs 40 and Rs 20 for additional hour thereafter. Parking for 24 hours is Rs 300. The airport also provides for valet parking service for Rs 150 and porter service for Rs 70 (for three bags).

From the parking lot, it is a less-than-a-minute walk into the terminal building, which bears semblance to the glass-house at the famous Lalbagh Botanical Gardens in Bangalore. Spread over 71,000 sq m, the building can accommodate 2,733 passengers per hour.

The terminal building provides free Wi-Fi access to the laptop users. Apart from baby care facilities for mothers, the three-level building also houses a clinic and a pharmacy run by the Columbia Asia Hospital. The airport has 53 check-in counters, 18 self check-in kiosks and provides for a seamless and single check-in process.

"Passengers do not have to queue up for baggage screening before check-in at the new airport. This is an international foolproof baggage screening process," Brunner added.

There are 18 shopping outlets and 15 food and beverages stalls in the terminal building. The international departure section houses one of the largest duty-free outlets showcasing leading international brands, and the Oberoi lounge which has dedicated areas for business and first-class passengers with a seating capacity of 100 people.


"But the most interesting feature of the international departure lounge is the coffee served by Paris-based Illy Cafe, which makes a debut into the Indian market," F&B operator HMSHost director (operations - India) JVS Rana said.

The airport has already generated a lot of interest among the airliner operators, who have drafted their staff before the inauguration as part of the familiarisation drive. Jet Airways deputy general manager (airport services) S Ravichandar said: "We are quite enthused about the facilities here. We are looking forward to the inauguration as the first aircraft to land here will be from our fleet."
However, controversies are far from over for Brunner and company. For, BIAL's insistence on closing down the HAL airport has been questioned in the court by the city's IT/BT head honchos who are citing time and cost constraints with regard to short-haul flights. The latter claim that BIAL is short on capacity utilisation.

Sporting a smile, Brunner said all that he wanted Bangaloreans to do immediately was to drive to BIAL to see for themselves the world-class facility.

Source: Business Standard
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Post by Himanshu »

All these airports at great distance from the City are going be a big boon in about 4-5 years down the line. There would be new development happening all along the access routes .. mostly offices and it's support structure would kick in.. hopefully it will give relief to the overcrowded City spaces..
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flights upto 23:59 would land and depart from HAL airport only. IA to
Singapore will be first outbound at 00:01

welcome to the revolution!

I intend to let the initial chaos subside and visit this place with family after
2 weeks. this weekend I am expecting atleast 1 lakh "tourists" to visit
BIAL and rampage through the place.

It might take over from the CCDay @ Ramanagaram on mysore road as a
post-midnight coo-coo place for yuppie kids. afterall a nice ambience,
parking and 24x7 snack shops is all they want.

and its nearer the city with good security onsite.
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I am flying out on 30th. So will post my experiences after coming back. Problem is that with the Rs 1075 UDF and the long taxi ride at Rs 15/km, we are looking at Rs 5000 extra on what we would have spent over HAL!...

I hope that the damn thing is worth extra Rs 5000, not to mention the extra 3 hrs of total spent on the road early in the morning in getting to and from the airport. I atleast hope that they have decent and usable restrooms that dont stink with "floaters" and other nasty stuff and make you retch when you go within 50 yards of that place. Not too much to hope for Rs 1075 and all the commute rubbish..

BTW, the Meru and Eazee cab service with Mahindra logan and the GPS equipped route recording systems and credit card swipe and all that .. sounds nice.
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Post by Singha »

dont forget to take lots of pix. Landside pix are now allowed in all airports
and airside also I think unless its a shared defence place like palam,
dabolim or HAL.
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Post by Amitayus »

I am bit perplexed with the left unions like AAEI's' response. It is clear as daylight that HAL and the NTR airport would be closed for good. After such a fierce agitation, why this deafening silence now? Or has there been any under-the- table settlement?
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Post by vina »

Amitayus wrote:I am bit perplexed with the left unions like AAEI's' response. It is clear as daylight that HAL and the NTR airport would be closed for good. After such a fierce agitation, why this deafening silence now? Or has there been any under-the- table settlement?
Haven't the AAI and the unions fleeced us enough.. After charging us with those taxes for all those years, what do they have to show for the airport except for some stinky hell hole that is not even fit for cattle to be tied in.. Kick the unionized AAI types to the other airports they have in other tier ii and other places.. or better still transfer them all to Kolkota.

Good riddance I say. Lets develop Devanahalli , put up with the short term pain /whatever and get the connectivity in place . The sooner we cut the blood sucking parasites out of the loop, the better the long term for everyone..

I am paying up the Rs 1075 UDF today, because the parasites sucked my blood for all those years and did nothing!..
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