I dont see any point in making comparisons between Hyderabad new airport and old HAL airport. As it is very clear, one is new and other one is old. New will be glittering and old may not.

We should have a name that reflects our city’s heritage not some politician. It would be rightful to name Bengaluuru International Airport after Kempe Gowda not on any damn dead politician.
Mr. Rajsekhar Reddy, just like any congress leader has named Hyderbad airport after a member of Gandhi family. A good indication of sycophancy!.

They should ask locals what name should be given to new airports than leaving it to the mercy of some babus(governmnet officers) who sit in offices in New Delhi and do not have any attachment to our region or our culture. Sitaram Yechuries and Prakash Karats should keep their mouths shut and not interefere in naming.
Thank god !. Our new airport is not named after some politician who humiliated then cheif minister Veerendra Patil few years ago.

I believe the taxi drivers who have been “outsourced” by some agency
will be speaking “fluent English” not fluent Kannada.
Now you be prepared with your “fluent English” to reach your destination safely without communication hazards.

Kalisipalya(m?) not KGBS (common, KGBS is much better!)

However, comparing the New hyd airport with the old Blr airport was out of place.
May be you should have compared the old airports. The Begumpet airport was better than HAL airport. But one also needs to take into account the high percentage growth of air travellers due to the increased affordability.
The airtraffic from/to BLR has increased tremendously. HAL airport, even after all the socalled expansion, is simply put, unablel to cater to such large volumes.

Even BIAL has blundered in under estimating the volume of passenger/traffic in the new airport. ONe only hopes they realise this and set right

When a hotel few blocks away from the airport, started offering free pickup and drop off, other hotels in the city saw a decline in their business. This resulted in every big hotel offering free pickup and drop off to the airport. As the transportation is outsourced, the transport operators sometimes swap or borrow taxis to quickly get out of the airport. This results in excess drivers and taxis hanging out in the airport. To this add the airport taxis and their drivers. Off late, I have also witnessed some call center cab drivers getting their vehicle to the airport to share a drink/dinner with their fellow mates.

No decent company exists outside Bangalore in Karnataka, of course with a few exceptions. To top it the wage difference is ridiculous between Bangalore and other cities in Karnataka. Further, an excellent all year weather makes Bangalore the place to be! To make matters worse, people from other states have also made Bangalore their domicile. Obviously, the city can’t cope the crowd and its infrastructure is crumbling and will never be able to overcome the problems.

When will we stop this corpse worshipping attitute I wonder- it is dangerously close to necrophilia

Thank you.

@everyone else

I hope whichever party comes to power in Karnataka, chooses a somewhat non-political figure.

How about Sir M Visweswarayya? The Sir MV International Airport, Bangalore?

Of course, if it is a crummy piece of mud work like the HAL Airport, I am all for naming it after Deve Gowda.

thanks. million thanks.

lakes and ponds were his other contribution.

slightly off the tangent..

and in this brave new bangalore of ours people will names their designs acropolis, augusta, atlantis, concorde, canberra some-other-fancy-western-name-even-if-i-have-no-clue-what-it-signifies and what not.

the kempegowDa, the chalukya, the haDappa, the mohenjodaDo, the hampe, the paTTadkal… these have become sarkaari.
imitation architecture (ub city, that building on hebbal etc… imitation names that is what we are left with.

i am not saying names would make bangalore better, i am saying names are symptomatic of the attitude. what is good about the local they have no clue.

is it any wonder, that while kempe gowda built lakes based on mental map of the terrain of bangalore, our satellite enabled modern day builders can only manage to encroach them?

” Noisy fans, creaky conveyor belts, litter-ridden bumpy floors, unmanageable baggage trolleys (but for my friend’s alert intervention, I would have run over a kid with my trolley), low artificial ceilings magnifying the marginal heat of Bangalore, and a crushing crowd gathered around the baggage claim reminded us where we were.”

The Communists and the Union which has the support of the over rated and highly paid workers at the HAL airport will not be so pleased with this comment.

The other suspects who are against the new airport are lazy bums who wont mind waiting for 2 hours in an airport abroad but will raise a hue and cry for making them travel for an hour or so.They want a airport next to theie exalted residence or office which is not possible.