The New Bangalore Airport

Bangalore has got a new Airport, The Bengaluru International Airport.

It was a sad goodbye for many Bangaloreans to the old HAL Airport which had been operational since 1964. People like me, who have been staying a stone's throw from the HAL Port for many years now, were all the more saddened on the morning 24th May 08. No more deafening plane sounds and no more busy traffic on the Airport Road. And we missed it badly.

But things happen for good.
The old Airport was being over used at a super saturation level of 7.5 million passengers a year, though its capacity was just 3.6 m. Flight delays were quite prevalent due to such a traffic rush. And the risk was high too considering every 5-10 min, a flight was landing or taking off on the same runway.

The new Airport offers the following advantages :
1) Can handle 12 m passengers keeping in mind Bangalore's burgeoning "flying population" .
2) Is thoroughly connected via luxury buses(Volvos) and rail.
3) With the shift, the traffic on the HAL Airport Road will ease out a lot and reduce the area's ever rampant traffic problem.
4) And lastly, the very obvious benefit will be the decrease in flight delays .

The only disadvantage is for the bachelors staying in the HAL area, as most air hostesses would move out of this place.
;-)

Lastly HAL should take care not to rent out this huge unused space of the old airport for commercial purposes. This would prove disastrous for the already existing traffic problem on the HAL Airport Road.