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Quick Facts

Distance from CBD (MG Road)

34 km

Land area

Spread over an area of approx.4000 acres

Airport Capacity

On AOD – 12 million passengers per annum

On final project realization – 40 to 50 million passengers per annum

Passenger flow at the Terminal building

Accommodates 2733 passengers at peak hour

Passenger transfer (domestic and international) under one roof

Short ways for passenger convenience

Common use of check-in counters

Passenger experience combines business and leisure

Check in counters

CUTE enabled check in counters: 53

Self Check-in counters: 18

Runway Details

4 km length, 60 meters wide with three rapid exit ways

Runway capacity

30 aircraft movements during peak hour

Current aircraft movement in Bangalore

440 aircraft movements are expected daily in May, 2008

Capacity of cargo warehouse

300,000 tons annually.

Boarding gates and aerobridges

Total boarding gates: 20

Aerobridges: 8 (one double arm)

9 remote bus bays

International Airlines

Air Mauritius, Malaysia Airlines, Tiger Airways, Oman Air, Air France, British Airways, Air Arabia, Gulf Air, Dragon Air(subsidiary of Cathay Pacific ), Lufthansa, Srilankan Airlines, Thai Airways, Singapore Airlines, Air India, Kingfisher Airlines, Emirates, Indian, Etihad, Qatar Airways, Transmile. Cargo carriers: Quikjet, Jett8

Domestic Airline

Kingfisher Airlines, Jet Airways, Indian Airlines, Alliance Air, Go Air, JetLite, Indigo, Spice Jet, Paramount Airways, Air Deccan, Blue Dart

Car Parking Facility

2000 car parks and 10 coach disembarkation bays

700 car parks for staff

Security counters

Domestic: 8 Airport Security Units (APSU), 1 X-Ray per APSU

International: 5 APSUs; 1 X-Ray per APSU

Five level security screening system for checked baggage

Immigration counters

Departure: 18 , Arrival: 18

Operational Airport Management

The Airport Operation Control Center (AOCC) is the nerve centre of the new airport where representatives of all the various organizations operating at the airport are stationed. BIAL has pioneered this concept for airports in India.

Getting to the airport

From NH7, the airport is at a distance of 5 km. This road has been developed by BIAL. In addition, the Trumpet Interchange connecting NH7 to the airport was ready on March 28, 2008.

BIAL also has a 10% equity in the elevated link project

Transport

MeruCabs and Easycabs for taxi services (fare Rs. 15 per km)

Hertz and Akbar Travels for luxury transport services

BMTC Vayu Vajra A/C Volvo buses (min fare Rs. 70, max fare Rs. 200)

BMTC Suvarna non A/C buses (min fare Rs. 20, max fare Rs. 90)

Foreign Exchange

Thomas Cook and TT Forex

Main F&B operators

HMS Host and Café Coffee Day

Curbside Retail and F&B

Radha Krishna Hospitality Services (RKHS) - South Indian food
Subway and Baskin Robbins ice – Continental food
Kaatizone and Gangotree Chats – North Indian food
Odyssey- magazines, gifts, flowers

Domestic Retail and F&B

Retail: Shoppers Stop, La Moda, Life’s Spirit, Crossword, Carbon jewelry, Mithaas
F&B: Taste of India, Time out bar, Barista bar, Cookieman Coffee

International Retail and F&B

Retail and Duty Free: Spirit of India, Crossword, Sound & Vision, Deepika Govind and Ethos watches
F&B: Kingfisher Sports Bar with Pizza Hut and Illy Café.

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Tremendous pictures & a great airport - whatever the media & ministry says, I feel BIAL has been planned & executed very well with abundance of space all around.

The only thing that I felt might be a deficiency were the escalators - but this might actually need to be tested in opertaion over a month before drawing any conclusions -according to kiran of bial, 'they should be okay', he had said.

TS - had looked forward to meeting you (I did'nt known you were out), maybe next time someplace else !

It may also be a good idea to upload all those pictures provided on the CD by BIAL (I already have them on my PC along with all these !).

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I guess i am the odd one out, i host my pictures on Picasa :(

http://picasaweb.google.com/rithesh.rg/BengaluruInternationalAirportPrajaVisit

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Praja folks had a sunday well spent at BIAL. A Big thanks to the praja.in and BIAL. Here is a Photo update. The full set of pictures can be found here(flickr photoset link) -- Praveen Sundaram AkA PhotoYogi

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It isn't a jazzy airport as such. Stress has been on using spaces and a flowing functional design. With plenty of entry gates, check in counters, and security check points (scanners), you could get off the cab, and hit the departure gate quickly enough. Basically, there are no holding areas as such, you feel the space. They scan all bags once you check them in, so no annoying must-scan-bags-before-check-in queue to begin with.

But, as Naveen noted, they could have done better with either one more set of escalators to climb onto the security gates, or perhaps wider stair case that what they have. I can see some crowding happening there.

Another area which seemed a little short on space was baggage claim area. We saw three conveyor belts in the domestic area. They said it can easily be expanded if required, and they can always use the international ones for domestic flights as well. But assuming 10 flights arriving within minuts of each other, 120 passengers per plane, and 60% of them with bags, you are looking at about 700-800 people standing in that hall. Seemed a little tight to me.

About the factory look and all controversy, I think those comments are overdone. The whole big hall is lit well with natural light. Even though they have glass walls around, and glass in the roof as well, it felt hot only inside the aerobridges even though A/c wasn't on. I think the energy aspects of the building have been designed well. No glass for the sake of show off, and no artificial lighting when its not required.

8-9 aerobridges seem a little less, but their explanation is - low cost airlines prefer the cheaper option of tarmac boarding, so 8-9 is all they may require to start with. Peak concurrent handling is estimated to be 20, about half of these planes could be on the aerobridge. So the number 8-9 may be enough. May be they picked this number with expected usage in mind, but I thought aerobridges help airlines deplane and board faster so they too may prefer bridges. I notice that spicejet and Go air quite often use the bridges at HAL.

Didn't ask our hosts a lot on why they haven't gone for vertical separation of arrival/departure traffic. Answer was - what they have has been designed well for the purpose and numbers. Though I noticed that one has to walk across arrival/departure traffic to hit the car parking area, a ped bridge or underpass should have been better. I am guessing that folks have to cross over the departure traffic to walk to the arrival taxi area. Perhaps no big deal, but just a point.

They have a huge car parking area. All uncovered, but I can see enough space to easily go multi level if needed later.

They get water for the airport from BWSSB, no digging at all, and have designed whole airport area for extensive rain water harvesting.

More as and when I recall, and may correct some I may have gotten wrong above.

 

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