Bangalore International Airport
After 17 years of wrangling, delay and innumerable rounds of litigation and talks, the new Bangalore International Airport ( BIAL) at Devanahalli became operational on Friday night. The first flight to take off from the new airport was Air India’s IC 957 for Singapore, captained by Ishwar Pal Panwar. The first Flight to land in the airport was Indian Airlines IC 609 from Mumbai with a couple of other domestic flights slated to land post midnight, delayed by a few hours. Delays and confusion notwithstanding, the airport set-up received thumbs-up from passengers and pilots alike.
And with that, the HAL airport that had served civilian flights for decades, has become an exclusive defence airport.
Premium as well as budget taxi services have also been launched at the new airport. CarzOnRent operates limousines and provides executive class travel, while easyCabz runs a radio taxi service.
Right now, there are no customers to exchange currencies at the counter. The business will pickup soon. The new airport has been built at a cost of Rs.2,470 crore as a public-private partnership between the state government and a Siemens-led consortium.
There’s excitement in the air at BIA. A number of Bangalore based passengers called to ask whether we would land at BIA. When we informed them that their flight infrastructure secretary V P Baligar greets one of the first passengers at the airport.
There was few confusion, like few passengers have left to old airport without knowledge. Airport road was not busy and whole traffic was transferred to Bellary Road. Expected traffic on National Highway 7 are like 1.14 crore passenger flow to Bangalore. Passenger average daily flow based on 450 flights per day is 1,14,00,000/365=31,232. As per the HAL airport data 75% of the passengers are domestic and 25% international passengers. So Domestic passenger per day is 0.75x31,232 = 23,424. The domestic operation is distributed between 6 am to 10 pm. Domestic passengers per hour is 23,424/16=1,464. It is estimated that one person will accompany a passenger. Therefore, number of vehicles to be parked is estimated at 1500-2600/hour. Besides there is an introduction of Volvo buses to BIA a hit. The Vayu Vajra Service by BMTC was a big hit. Hi-tech Volvo service with 31 seater, lot of luggage space carried 128 passengers from BIA to Bangalore after the inaugural flight landed on Saturday morning. BMT has deployed 40 Volvo buses and 116 Suvarna Sarige buses though the Volvo service is more in demand.
The people at new Devanahalli Airport was very happy to see the international standard of Airport. Visitors arrived to airport to see and expirence the new look. Most of them are happy and only worry was connectivity. Bangalore traffic authorities and planning to improve the connectivity to the new airport.
Folks, enjoy the world class airport at Bangalore.
After 17 years of wrangling, delay and innumerable rounds of litigation and talks, the new Bangalore International Airport ( BIAL) at Devanahalli became operational on Friday night. The first flight to take off from the new airport was Air India’s IC 957 for Singapore, captained by Ishwar Pal Panwar. The first Flight to land in the airport was Indian Airlines IC 609 from Mumbai with a couple of other domestic flights slated to land post midnight, delayed by a few hours. Delays and confusion notwithstanding, the airport set-up received thumbs-up from passengers and pilots alike.
And with that, the HAL airport that had served civilian flights for decades, has become an exclusive defence airport.
Premium as well as budget taxi services have also been launched at the new airport. CarzOnRent operates limousines and provides executive class travel, while easyCabz runs a radio taxi service.
Right now, there are no customers to exchange currencies at the counter. The business will pickup soon. The new airport has been built at a cost of Rs.2,470 crore as a public-private partnership between the state government and a Siemens-led consortium.
There’s excitement in the air at BIA. A number of Bangalore based passengers called to ask whether we would land at BIA. When we informed them that their flight infrastructure secretary V P Baligar greets one of the first passengers at the airport.
There was few confusion, like few passengers have left to old airport without knowledge. Airport road was not busy and whole traffic was transferred to Bellary Road. Expected traffic on National Highway 7 are like 1.14 crore passenger flow to Bangalore. Passenger average daily flow based on 450 flights per day is 1,14,00,000/365=31,232. As per the HAL airport data 75% of the passengers are domestic and 25% international passengers. So Domestic passenger per day is 0.75x31,232 = 23,424. The domestic operation is distributed between 6 am to 10 pm. Domestic passengers per hour is 23,424/16=1,464. It is estimated that one person will accompany a passenger. Therefore, number of vehicles to be parked is estimated at 1500-2600/hour. Besides there is an introduction of Volvo buses to BIA a hit. The Vayu Vajra Service by BMTC was a big hit. Hi-tech Volvo service with 31 seater, lot of luggage space carried 128 passengers from BIA to Bangalore after the inaugural flight landed on Saturday morning. BMT has deployed 40 Volvo buses and 116 Suvarna Sarige buses though the Volvo service is more in demand.
The people at new Devanahalli Airport was very happy to see the international standard of Airport. Visitors arrived to airport to see and expirence the new look. Most of them are happy and only worry was connectivity. Bangalore traffic authorities and planning to improve the connectivity to the new airport.
Folks, enjoy the world class airport at Bangalore.
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