As the concept and advertisements of "Incredible India" is growing strong and apparently every indian embassy screaming out loud on numerous billboards "Padharo mhare Desh" like it did in New York a fortnight ago by flooding almost every advertisement board with "India Incredible" ads u can be certain it must have caught somebody's imagination but looking at the airports that are in "Mhare Desh" u doubt if they can provide a solid backup for all that buzz going around.
Reading TOI article about indian airports and about Mumbai airport that leads to terminal(gateway) to India,the stats were revealing enough to put the facts bare that even a stupid like me can extract a lot out of them.The stats said Mumbai airport handels approximately 680 flights per day( u think this is a huge number than take a look at JFK airport it handles avg 20 flights per min.) that is likely to rise well above 700 come this winter.This large number feels good, but the problem is pretty much same as what we face everyday ie Parking space and the fact is an airliner has to fly 15 mins in search of even a gully to park in , pretty much what we do when we are out but the scale makes all the difference as these 15 mins mean a lot of costly fuel going down the drain.Mumbai Airport has a single runway and so the whole airport infrastructure like ferrying passengers too and fro between terminal and carrier takes a real beating due to unorganized parking of jumbojets and consequently a trip from terminal to plane takes 40 mins :O, even a bailgaadi or me just sauntering can beat this,Coming to our IGI airport Delhi i would refrain from making any comment more strong than that it faces fog problems even in mid summer and all the scheduling takes a back seat.
Its not that only indian airports are facing these problems Heathrow and JFK are quite past this stage and are building new terminals and runways when their old facilities have been handling 67,527,923 passengers and more than 1100,000 aircrafts annually, but thanks to technologies like Airplane stacking they don't even know what a parking space deficiency means.
Coming to security on airports ohhhh yea indian civil aviation ministry has proposed a passenger profiling ( for all those who don't know what the hell does it means.. its about running a back around search for all the passengers and their past records and family background so that any foul play can be sensed prior.) but see the efffect of it britain used this and was gifted with 7/7 bombings, imagine its repercussions in india where we see a bomb going off every 15 days.
Well it may be critical acclaim from an amateur whose life revolves around LT,Lab Building and CEP and who prefers a train for his journey to home during vacations ,but honestly for me Destination India Concept roxxx coz there is lot more to India than these airports and after all these busy terminals are just a gateway leading to INDIYEAH.... :)
Reading TOI article about indian airports and about Mumbai airport that leads to terminal(gateway) to India,the stats were revealing enough to put the facts bare that even a stupid like me can extract a lot out of them.The stats said Mumbai airport handels approximately 680 flights per day( u think this is a huge number than take a look at JFK airport it handles avg 20 flights per min.) that is likely to rise well above 700 come this winter.This large number feels good, but the problem is pretty much same as what we face everyday ie Parking space and the fact is an airliner has to fly 15 mins in search of even a gully to park in , pretty much what we do when we are out but the scale makes all the difference as these 15 mins mean a lot of costly fuel going down the drain.Mumbai Airport has a single runway and so the whole airport infrastructure like ferrying passengers too and fro between terminal and carrier takes a real beating due to unorganized parking of jumbojets and consequently a trip from terminal to plane takes 40 mins :O, even a bailgaadi or me just sauntering can beat this,Coming to our IGI airport Delhi i would refrain from making any comment more strong than that it faces fog problems even in mid summer and all the scheduling takes a back seat.
Its not that only indian airports are facing these problems Heathrow and JFK are quite past this stage and are building new terminals and runways when their old facilities have been handling 67,527,923 passengers and more than 1100,000 aircrafts annually, but thanks to technologies like Airplane stacking they don't even know what a parking space deficiency means.
Coming to security on airports ohhhh yea indian civil aviation ministry has proposed a passenger profiling ( for all those who don't know what the hell does it means.. its about running a back around search for all the passengers and their past records and family background so that any foul play can be sensed prior.) but see the efffect of it britain used this and was gifted with 7/7 bombings, imagine its repercussions in india where we see a bomb going off every 15 days.
Well it may be critical acclaim from an amateur whose life revolves around LT,Lab Building and CEP and who prefers a train for his journey to home during vacations ,but honestly for me Destination India Concept roxxx coz there is lot more to India than these airports and after all these busy terminals are just a gateway leading to INDIYEAH.... :)
2 comments:
arey yeah kya....
whn did u start writing such blogs... abt airports n stuff...
tu tho generally senti ur funny walain likhta hain naa...
Good post.
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