Calcutta: Calcutta airport will soon fall silent, officials said.This does not mean one can hear a pin drop but there will no longer be non-stop announcements, as it happens now in the airport’s security hold area.
Only emergency announcements will be made once the security hold area falls silent. The check-in and arrival areas became silent a few years ago.
At a meeting with airlines on Friday, the Calcutta airport authorities decided to take steps from September to curb announcements, following in the footsteps of the airports in Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Hyderabad and Chennai.
An official at the Calcutta airport said a silent airport was not entirely a noise-free compound.
“The idea is to reduce noise pollution by stopping airport-wide announcements through the public address system, which now continue almost non-stop in the security hold area. Only important announcements will be made through the public address system, such as boarding gate change or sudden disruption in flight schedule because of weather,” the official said.
“At a meeting with airlines today we discussed how ours can be made a silent airport. From September, we’ll start implementing this by improving the signage and having more flight information display,” airport director Kaushik Bhattacharjee said on Friday.
At the city airport, there once used to be announcements across the terminal. The practice was stopped in the check-in and arrival areas a few years ago.
Bhattacharjee said work was on to install flight information display boards at all 26 boarding gates. These boards will provide information about departure and boarding time and also if there is any change in boarding gate.
27/07/19 Sanjay Mandal/Telegraph
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Only emergency announcements will be made once the security hold area falls silent. The check-in and arrival areas became silent a few years ago.
At a meeting with airlines on Friday, the Calcutta airport authorities decided to take steps from September to curb announcements, following in the footsteps of the airports in Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Hyderabad and Chennai.
An official at the Calcutta airport said a silent airport was not entirely a noise-free compound.
“The idea is to reduce noise pollution by stopping airport-wide announcements through the public address system, which now continue almost non-stop in the security hold area. Only important announcements will be made through the public address system, such as boarding gate change or sudden disruption in flight schedule because of weather,” the official said.
“At a meeting with airlines today we discussed how ours can be made a silent airport. From September, we’ll start implementing this by improving the signage and having more flight information display,” airport director Kaushik Bhattacharjee said on Friday.
At the city airport, there once used to be announcements across the terminal. The practice was stopped in the check-in and arrival areas a few years ago.
Bhattacharjee said work was on to install flight information display boards at all 26 boarding gates. These boards will provide information about departure and boarding time and also if there is any change in boarding gate.
27/07/19 Sanjay Mandal/Telegraph
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