After much delay and amidst a chorus for the city's old HAL Airport to continue operations, Bengaluru International Airport (BIA) took-off on the mid-night of May 21, 2008. In the five years since, it has handled 500,000 air traffic movements and 50 million passengers and the airport has come to be regarded as one of the best greenfield airports in India, with even its critics admitting so. In an exclusive interview to TOI, G V Sanjay Reddy, MD of Bangalore International Airport Ltd (BIAL) and vicechairman of the airport's largest stakeholder, GVK Power and Infrastructure, talks about the airport's roadmap for the next five years.
How has the journey been since you took over control of the airport?
When we took over three years ago, we were confident about the team's talent and were aware of the high efficiency this airport had achieved. It was an exciting project to add to the GVK portfolio as Bangalore has the third highest domestic traffic in the country after Mumbai and Delhi. No national airline network can be completed without including Bangalore. We concentrated on the very specific areas of infrastructure and brought in our expertise there.
29/05/13 Times of India
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How has the journey been since you took over control of the airport?
When we took over three years ago, we were confident about the team's talent and were aware of the high efficiency this airport had achieved. It was an exciting project to add to the GVK portfolio as Bangalore has the third highest domestic traffic in the country after Mumbai and Delhi. No national airline network can be completed without including Bangalore. We concentrated on the very specific areas of infrastructure and brought in our expertise there.
29/05/13 Times of India
