Airport to be named after Bengaluru

Bangalore: The Garden City may still be awaiting a green signal from the Union Home Ministry to get its name changed from Bangalore to Bengaluru. But the promoters of the new Devanahalli international airport have gone a step ahead and christened the airport “Bengaluru International Airport”.
The airport has also been given a new logo, reflecting by the City’s floral charm.
The Bangalore International Airport Limited (BIAL), the main promoters of the country’s first greenfield airport confirmed to Deccan Herald that the new airport would henceforth be called the “Bengaluru International Airport”.
The first flight is set to take off from the new airport in about 60 days.
“We have adopted the City’s proposed name of Bengaluru, and the airport will be called Bengaluru International Airport,“ said BIAL Officials.
Ever since the airport construction commenced in July 2005, suggestions and demands had come from several quarters on a suitable name. The debate had even triggered protests from various organisations who wanted it to be named after prominent personalities like founder of Bangalore Kempe Gowda; former Mysore Diwan Sir M Visvesvaraya, matinee idol Rajkumar and Tipu Sultan who was born in Devanahalli.
30/01/08 Hemanth C S/Deccan Herald

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Categories: Airports Jan 2008, New Jan 2008