My first experience with new Bengaluru Airport

I was supposed to go to Noida on official visit and hence need to fly to Delhi. I was little excited about the new Bengaluru Airport, as I have heard enough of it, both good and bad.

As told in my earlier blog (To Airport via Vayu Vajra), I took Vayu Vajra (BMTC’s Volvo bus service to airport). When the bus took diversion towards the new airport from NH-7, I was waiting to catch a glimpse of the airport. First came gigantic Indian Oil aviation fuel tanks and then followed catering and cargo buildings. The bus had a separate parking area which is about 100mts from the airport entrance. The first thing that made me WOW was the ample parking space. I started comparing everything in new airport with the old airport.

I went 90 minutes early, as Air-India people instructed. I grabbed something to eat. I had couple of samosas and coke. Outside the departure area, there is very wide open space with heavy breeze hitting people around. I think authorities would have made some arrangements to cover the breeze. Now that I had outside glimpse of the airport and thought I would get into the airport.

The line wasn’t so long as compared to the old airport and had multiple departure gates. As I entered the airport, I could see few nice ads including Satyam’s. I went to Air-India counter and took the boarding pass and dumped my bag. Now that I had nothing to carry, I started looking one end to other end of the airport. It had everything snack, bar, restaurant, shopping outlets (with all international brands). It was overall good experience. I have only one thing to complain about, the LCD’s displayed to show the flight schedule is very small in dimensions. If somebody wants to look at the flight schedule, he/she needs to go too close to look at it. Otherwise the new airport is beyond doubt, is an international standard. My overall experience is "WOW".