The people behind the new Bangalore International Airport are taking the public for a royal ride and the city/state administration is doing nothing about it. The new airport opens tomorrow...
Just as a simple example, the cost of the flights I usually take from Bangalore to Bombay will go now up by nearly 65% from tomorrow. There is an user development fee of 650Rs charged to the passenger every time the airport is used, second, the god forsaken airport is 45 kilometers from where I live and apart from the 3 hours it is going to take me to get to the airport its going to cost me about 800Rs to take a taxi each way. So a Bangalore-Bombay to and fro ticket that used to cost me about 4.5 thousand before is now going to cost me around 7.5 thousand rupees. And what do I as a passenger get out of this? Absolutely nothing! Zilch! In fact I pay more and suffer more, on an average, commute time for everyone triples, the airline congestion problem doesn't get solved because this new airport is not equipped to handle even the total passengers that flew from Bangalore last year let alone the 25% increase in the number of people flying forecast for this year...
Seriously all I have to say is WTF!!! Actually scream out WTF...this makes absolutely no sense. The roads to the airport don't finish for 2 more years, the airport still won't save me pain of standing in huge lines and the delay in flights and all it does is increase my commute/flying time and rips me off another 2-3 thousand rupees...
The whole city just needs to stand up and say WTF! Yes we will be dishonouring a contract but so what, the public didn't sign it, some idiot politician signed it and the public was not even aware of these conditions. The Supreme Court itself directed that the airport is monopolistic and unfair on the public and the contract should be re-negotiated, but what happened? The government and BIAL met behind closed doors, the details of the meeting were not made public just the decision to close the old airport completely and open the new one was made. No explanation was given other than the fact that the talks failed. To this I say F you and also show you 1 particular finger of mine. Guess which finger, you dumb a-holes from BIAL and the administration...
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Taking people for a royal ride - BIAL
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How do you say that this airport can not handle the traffic????
If HAL can handle the traffic with such a small shed and a runway with dogs and crows and without any rapid exit taxiways, why can't BIAL???? As a layman I'm not finding any logic in your argument.
If airport is moved of City what is the problem?? I feel it is good to common man in the city. City is so congested and every one wants live in the centre of City. No roads, no drainage, no space altogether. when airport is moved out of city, it starts growing towards taht and you will see Bangalore upto devanahalli.
I agree witn you that connectivity should have been improved. But where were these public for last 7-8 years??? were they unaware that HAL is going to be closed?? Did they think that this is India, nothing will happen, contracts can be broken....
Who are you?
But let me answer your questions anyway...
BIAL can handle 9 million passengers, last year 9.9 million passengers flew in and out of Bangalore...This I read in the paper...
Moving out of the city is not a problem as long as people can make to the airport in about 1 hour. Not 3 hours on an average and about 4 hours from electronic city.
Last 7-8 years there was no way to get access to the government-BIAL deal. Only now has the the new airport deal came under the RTI act. The courts just recently ruled that the details of this deal can be accessed by the public, before that there was no way to know what was going on.
Last 7-8 years the people were hoping that by the time to launch the new airport comes the connectivity issue will be solved. how many people knew about the exclusion demand BIAL had managed put in the contract. Another thing we don't even know the name of the govt official who signed such a dumb deal...
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