Written By blrsri - 10 June, 2008

BIAL Bangalore BIAL

Was checking major airports across the world on maps.google.com..jfk,boston, fra including the zurich airport..

All these airports have one thing in common..they all have a mid-field terminals

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These are terminals as shown above where aircrafts are parked on both sides. This is a very easy and good way to accomodate more aircrafts.

First thought that comes up is..why didnt bangalore build a mid-field terminal for the first phase? This would have helped tackle the parking issues and worked in our advantage!

Second is that since we are accelerating work on the next terminal for BIA, we should atleast with this go for a mid field terminal design..this will surely help us in managing the flights better for sure!

Here is the zurich example:

http://www.airport-technology.com/projects/zurich/zurich23.html

Phase II

narayan82 - 10 June, 2008 - 06:46

if you look at the master plan, the entire airpoty )passenger terminals) are in a H format. Hence certain parts of the these terminals will be dual sided as you suggest.

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Re: Shallow U

narayan82 - 10 June, 2008 - 08:55

With the amount of land available, surely if we do exceed 60mn Pax per year - lots of options such as yours are valid.

As you can see Below "the blue section" is the section that is up right now. If they do speed up expansion plans they can easily meet the demand

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Midfield Terminal

santsub - 10 June, 2008 - 23:23

I had posted this before - just posting my view they can accomodate more aircrafts with this model too.

 http://www.flickr.com/photos/21318792@N07/2424694448/

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Big birds stare at elbow-room problem on Bangalore tarmac

idontspam - 15 June, 2008 - 04:47

International airlines have slammed the airport for the “flawed” design of the aerobridges

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shallow 'U'

blrsri - 10 June, 2008 - 07:26

Its more like a shallow 'U' than being a H!

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I  have tried some extensions (in green) which can be tried out..this is of the conventional type...we can also experiment with a star * type of design for the new terminal...with the end goal that we have a mid-field terminal!

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