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BIAL's soft opening - photos!
Written By Photoyogi - 23 May, 2008
Update @ 2115 hrs;-
Welcome aboard praja folk, am blogging live from BIAL :-) Left home
around 6:08 PM reached BIAL by 6:55 pm despite the rain and some road
work going on, not bad at all, the last time i could do this distance
in 45 min on a dry day. (was driving a maruti van max speed 70 kmph for
10 min)
On reaching here i saw the place filled with cops all over, sniffer
dogs et al.
The airport looks nice when its litup. smiling faces all over, i got to
speek to some airline staff who feel this is a good thing that happened
to Bengaluru.
Including the press most of us are stuck at the arrival counter no
access to the departure side or the tarmac, -- thanks CISF.
As am typing this i hear the announcement about the UDF payment. (in
kannada / engilish / hindi)
the first flight is supposed to land around 2145 hrs its an AI IC 609
flight from mumbai A 320 flight
( it was supposed to be a jetair flight but i guess lots of things
change we live in interesting times)
More updates as they happen.
Update @ 22:40 hrs: the first flight has landed. Lots of
crowding around for taking pictures, and connectivity (I mean wifi) is
troublesome, so pictures will follow later.
Update @ 00:45 hrs: Got a chance to talk to Mr Brunner an hour ago. Ended up making him uncomfortable by asking his opinion on RTI applicability on BIAL. Anyway. Right now, we are all still waiting for the first flight to depart. Running late I guess. No pictures yet, but BIAL will hand lots of pictures of first departure before I leave. So check back in the morning.
Update @ 03:45 hrs:
There was a small press conference and the crew that was going to take
off to Singapore were on stage, all elated and the media were all
flashes and clicks :-)Was waiting for an announcement that the AI
flight to singapore would take off but i guess the coffee and chit-chat
i had missed the announcement.
COMMENTS

blrsri - 24 May, 2008 - 00:55

kbsyed61 - 2 June, 2008 - 18:24

Photoyogi - 23 May, 2008 - 23:57
-- Praveen Sundaram AkA PhotoYogi

idontspam: reg conventional Media
Photoyogi - 24 May, 2008 - 03:23
-- Praveen Sundaram AkA PhotoYogi

bangalore-guy - 23 May, 2008 - 17:28
Great work, awaiting pictures !!
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