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Written By admin123 - 25 March, 2008

BIAL Bangalore Infrastructure Aviation

[Update: Date for BIAL trip moved to Sunday, Apr 6th. Unfortunately, only 20 can go. We will give preference to long time members and those who write/comment a lot on BIAL here].

We had recently announced a 'BIA terminal to tarmac' tour for Praja members. In addition to that, the folks at BIAL have kindly agreed to answer any questions that we might have on the Airport. You can ask the bugging question about parking at the airport, handling of road side traffic, passenger and cargo handling etc. We will be taking questions as comments on this post and then will pass them on to BIAL. Then we would post the answers on Praja.

Please restrict your questions to technical and if relevant, financial aspects. We would moderate any question with political overtone, foul language or rant.

In the meanwhile, we are glad to confirm that we have now fixed 30th March as a tentative day for the 'Terminal to tarmac' trip. We will keep the members posted with the details as we become aware of them.

 

COMMENTS

great!

narayan82 - 25 March, 2008 - 09:54

This is great news. I really look forward to the tour. Once question that I am interested in is Explansion Plans - would really like to know whats in store. do you think we could document our trip, with the discussions and maybe post it for the public to view? Also maybe if BIAL would give us some areas where our debates and solutions can help them, then we can more specificaly discuss on that. Maybe - we can all do test runs for time taken to reach from our respective homes/areas.

Question

navshot - 25 March, 2008 - 10:40

Since BIA promises rapid check-in (and check-out) due to its improved and stream-lined processes, can the reporting time be shortened with respect to flight departure? From what I understand, currently its 1 hour for domestic and 3 hours for international. If we can make it as 30 mins and 1.5 hours respectively, then it would be great and also it can ofset time taken to reach the airport.

checkin counters still close

narayan82 - 25 March, 2008 - 11:55

checkin counters still close 30 mins before boarding, hence you can come in 30 mins before your flight... Dont know if boarding & s/check can be done for a plane of 180 pax in 30 mins... check out time can be done if baggage arrives faster and in a phased manner. same you have a category in your b/pass that has "a" or "b" on it, and all "a"s are in one section of the belt or something..so you dont have people crowding around 1 part....

How many gates does BIAL Support

bangalorean - 25 March, 2008 - 12:01

When ever i saw the pictures or reports of BIAL, i used to wonder how many gates does BIAL support. A quality airport would support minimum of 20 gates (not sure just my guess).

Recollecting that the bangalore HAL airport supports only 2 gates where passengers can directly board theflight. Other gates are walkin gates, where people are ferried to the planes by busses etc...

Wondering how much does BIAL support, if it is less than 20, then it is your guess how good is BIAL??????

A malaysian firm - offered

narayan82 - 28 March, 2008 - 04:25

A malaysian firm - offered to build Metro/Mono rail for bangalore free... Wonder where they are now! When will know of the 20 people list?

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