Bus boost to Birsa air travel

Ranchi: The Birsa Munda airport authority has done what airlines in rest of the world do — provide bus service to their passengers from departure terminal to the aircraft.
“To facilitate air travel of passengers during inclement weather conditions and continuing rains, the Airports Authority of India at the Birsa Munda airport in Ranchi has pressed a bus into service,” said A.V. Krishna, director of Birsa Munda airport. “It will ensure safety of passengers and shelter from rain and storm as they will no longer have to walk up to the aircraft,” he added.
The bus — a 22-seater Swaraj Mazda — will ply between the apron where aircraft are parked and the airport terminal for passengers to embark and disembark a flight. All airlines have been asked to avail of the service, for which each airline will have to pay Rs 500 per flight every day to the airport authority.
Air-India was the only airline to have had their own bus service between the terminal and the apron, while passengers of all other airlines had to foot it down, no matter what the weather condition was.
04/07/08 Aneeta Sharma/The Telegraph

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Categories: Airports Jul 2008