BIA like ‘jatka’ stand: HC

Bangalore: On Tuesday, a Karnataka High Court judge felt that BIA was no better than a ‘jatka (tonga) stand’.
The judge did not stop at that and, rubbing salt into the BIA’s injured pride, described the airport building resembling a matchbox. The judge’s comment, which also included an observation that BIA did not have a second runway or Category 3 Instrument Landing System, came in the midst of a hearing related to a matter on the closure of the HAL airport, which was being heard by a division bench of Justices V S Sabahit and S N Satyanarayana.
According to a report filed by the Airports Authority of India (AAI) on this matter, which is in stark contrast with BIAL, it was not consulted for the study on airport capacity assessment.
The report states that BIAL had conveniently misrepresented the concept of capacity assessment and could not be relied upon by the High Court. Hitting out at BIAL, the report goes on to state that peak hour capacity provided by BIAL was incorrect.
17/02/10 Deccan Herald

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Categories: Airports Feb 2010