Bangalore: While many airports in South-East Asia and Europe have put in place contingency plans to ensure that those evacuated from the quake-hit Japan are free of any nuclear contamination, the Bangalore International Airport is still in deep slumber.
The airport has no screening mechanism to check if the passengers are radiated nor are there any measures to test the aircraft for radioactivity.
Though, at present, flights to Japan operate only out of the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi, other airports could be handling flights from Japan. For instance, a special flight with L&T Infotech employees and their family members will arrive in Chennai on March 18.
Similarly, airlines are also operating special flights from Japan. Air India has announced that it will be operating a Jumbo B747-400 aircraft which has a capacity of 424 passengers instead of the scheduled B777-300ER to Tokyo till March 19.
Despite knowing that there could be a large influx of passengers from Japan, the government and the airport authorities have not put in place any contingency measures.
17/03/11 Hemanth CS/Daily News & Analysis
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