The parking ticket booths at the Lokapriya Gopinath Bordoloi International (LGBI) Airport have been pushed a few meters towards the entrance of the airport and away from the terminal building - a move that has been criticized by visitors, especially those who drop passengers off, mostly because of the “mismanagement” at the parking bays and “unjustified” parking charges the move has prompted.
“The maximum time limit to drop off someone and exit the airport is five minutes. But, with the chaos that occurs there every day, it is almost impossible to exit in five minutes and hence, one is forced to pay the parking fee of Rs 60 even if one has not actually parked the car there. This is almost legalised extortion,” Rihan Bordoloi, who had to drop off a relative, last Wednesday, said.
It took exactly 8.20 minutes to enter the drop off bay zigzagging through cabs and private cars parked haphazardly on the bay itself, drop off his relative, bid goodbye and exit (with equal difficulty as it took to get in), Bordoloi shared. “I could not see any traffic or as a matter of fact, airport personnel, manning the parking lots, who would help people to park. It’s a chaos there,” Bordoloi added.
The LGBI airport terminal, which had been battling lack of space and increased passenger traffic, was expanded prior to the Advantage Assam event held in February this year, but at the cost of two drop off bays. This helped manage passengers inside the building but the parking lots and drop off bays remain over-crowded making it as much cumbersome and time consuming for the passengers to reach the terminal as for the people dropping them off to exit the airport.
03/05/18 Avishek Sengupta/Guwahati Plus
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“The maximum time limit to drop off someone and exit the airport is five minutes. But, with the chaos that occurs there every day, it is almost impossible to exit in five minutes and hence, one is forced to pay the parking fee of Rs 60 even if one has not actually parked the car there. This is almost legalised extortion,” Rihan Bordoloi, who had to drop off a relative, last Wednesday, said.
It took exactly 8.20 minutes to enter the drop off bay zigzagging through cabs and private cars parked haphazardly on the bay itself, drop off his relative, bid goodbye and exit (with equal difficulty as it took to get in), Bordoloi shared. “I could not see any traffic or as a matter of fact, airport personnel, manning the parking lots, who would help people to park. It’s a chaos there,” Bordoloi added.
The LGBI airport terminal, which had been battling lack of space and increased passenger traffic, was expanded prior to the Advantage Assam event held in February this year, but at the cost of two drop off bays. This helped manage passengers inside the building but the parking lots and drop off bays remain over-crowded making it as much cumbersome and time consuming for the passengers to reach the terminal as for the people dropping them off to exit the airport.
03/05/18 Avishek Sengupta/Guwahati Plus
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