Airports are the National Assets. Should not be handed over to private parties in any case. AAI has the expertise to modernize the Delhi and Mumbai Airports. They should be given a chance.
RE:Airports-Delhi, Mumbai
by Vishvas Rao on Jan 31, 2006 11:02 PM Permalink
The same insane AAI has been managing the airports all over the country. Please travel back from any country back to Bangalore try to retrieve your luggage. I assure you that you will not be out of the airport before one hour. The conveyor belt that carries the luggage! My God!! You still can manage with these. You get a nature's call and walk into the Airport's toilets. Great toilets which have no proper flushes, no proper taps for the wash basins welcome you. Relatives are waiting for your arrival for hours together. There is a delay in your flight, there is nobody who bothers to announce the delay! Few of the relatives who dont mind paying a mind boggling Rs 60/- enter the Arrival lounge to be welcomed by mosquitoes. This is the sorry state of affairs of most of the airports in India. If the AAI was really concerned about the facilities or modernizing the airports, it would not have taken so much of time. Things should change and change for better. It is not Govt's business to run airports and airlines which are considered a luxury by the Left. Please privatize not only the airports but also the carriers. The customer would be benefitted at the least.
RE:Airports-Delhi, Mumbai
by Edward on Jan 31, 2006 09:32 PM Permalink
I am sorry to know that you have such a shallow understanding of IAA. Unless you are one of them, it is a proven knowledge for the last 55 years the IAA could not do what they had in hand and do you think they will do when they are given the chance again. They are currpt, lazy and do not want to work for the improvement of the country. Their technical knowledge and comptence does not match with the international standards, so why should the country should waste the tax money of the its citizens on incompetant IAA work force?
RE:Airports-Delhi, Mumbai
by Shyam Sunder on Jan 31, 2006 06:26 PM Permalink
I am very much agree with that AAI has all the technical expertise to do all the modernisation work of Delhi and Mumbai Airports. AAI is also financially strong. It can do the work through its own reserves. Only AAI can solely do modernisation work because it has all the airport related experts and technicians. Hence the question here arises to modernise the airports not privatite. By doing privatisation of Airpots, it is not sure that the airports will become world class airpots in one day. Instead of this, the modernisation work be given to AAI. Hence I am strongly of the opinion of giving all the modernisation related work to only Airports Authority of India.
