BIAL's soft opening - photos!

woah! yogi awesome work. man this is something. live blogs from the airport!! way beyond cool, its frozen man!! and a millions thanks.

Yogi,

Thanks a lot man. Don't have the words to describe my "Krategangallu".

Just I was on my way to Friday Prayers, was wishing for some body to give us the live updates. Here you are.

Thanks,

Syed

 

 

This is amazing - we have our 'rep' at BIAL for the opening !

Terrific Photoyogi, & we are waiting to hear more from you after you get back home.

Cheers !!

 

Great work, awaiting pictures !!

Their official opening time is 00.01 hrs according to their website. Hopefully they'll post an update then.

Nice Work My friend.

 Coool work man ... We are all proud of you !

BTW, guys, the official website --> www.bengaluruairport.com has not been updated with the Live Arrival/Departure info [though it says it will be operational at 00:01 Hrs May 24th 2008] 

 

Cheers,

Prash

I ve been following the coverage for pretty much the whole day and your updates beat the press by a long way, just checked the pics too.

Waiting to fly back to Banglore soon!! Keep up the good work Praveen.

Praveen, those image links youve posted above - does it have all the new BIAL pics taken today?. Thanks.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/photoyogi/2517524662/in/set-72157605216435740/

  Thanks for the pics. Please do get some pics during the day- of the entire terminal building- would be good if the pics were taken step by step in each of the 2  routes 1)departure and 2) arrival, with all the shopping areas, amenities available to the passenger. Thanks in advance.

 

This is really wonderful indeed..thanks for the ring view updates..

 

Thanks for the pics PhotoYogi. Please could you get some pics during the day- of the entire inside of the terminal building.

Would be good if the Day pics were taken step by step (the same way a passenger would progress) in each of the 2 routes 1)departure and 2) arrival, with all the shopping areas, amenities etc available to the passenger(as in the Ground and First floor plans released by BIAL- links below). Such a sequenced photoset  would be very meaningful and will give a comprehensive idea about the airport. It would be of immense help if you could do this sometime - at your convenience. Thanks in advance.

http://www.bengaluruairport.com/bial_docs/docs/ground_floor.pdf

http://www.bengaluruairport.com/bial_docs/docs/first_floor.pdf

 

 

Lots of businesses that were supposed to set up shop in Bangalore had been going to Thailand etc for some years now due to the lack of a good airport and bad infrastructure. With the airport in place things will change appreciably anyway, and with better roads, rail and other infrastructure Bangalore will become very attractive and its landscape will change dramatically.

Nowdays it is- 'have the iinfrastructure and everything else will fall in place'.

Hopefully BIAL's precence will spurn many more developments in industry and infrastructure.

Praja did have updates earlier than any other site. Thanks to the resident praja journalist Photoyogi.

While the idea of giving the regular newspapers a run for their money does sound good. I think Praja is doing fine in its own niche as a blog driven community, focussing on civic issues. These live blogs are a good way of using technology to cover events that relate to the niche but suggest not to deviate into something different. Newspapers and print media have a wider scope.

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Hi Praveen aka Photoyogi,

Great work and amazing dedication!! Just saw a slideshow on your flickr site, must saw the photos were amazing and quite comprehensive, covering most front-end aspects of the airport. Was feeling a bit emotional too, looking at the smiling faces all around the airport.

17 years in the making, whew!! Now its upto us to ensure that the airport delivers bang for the buck, time and sweat spent by so many people. 

 

Photoyogi,

I cant express how thrilled we all are to see the photos and updates!
I knew Praja would have it before anyone, thanks!

Hope I can join you soon in Bangalore for some photo journalism for our beloved praja.

-Bengloorappa

Photoyogi,

Really excited after looking the photos, Thanks for your great effort.

regards

Mohammed Ismail

Dammam-Saudi Arabia 

Hey

 First  of all thanks a lot....Live blogging.... Awesome...!!. 

Cheers

Raj 

 

 

A visit to BIAL today was refreshing - click the link below to see pictures of the terminal & also a flt that departed :

http://flickr.com/photos/...

 

devesh there is a quite a powerful image manipulation software called GIMP that is free. http://www.gimp.org/downl... to add text to a picture just open the picture. select the text tool (the icon has A) and click on the image at the position where you the text to appear. a window wil appear where you can type the actual text. you control color, size, and font, alignment etc...

Offtopic, but to Devesh sir's comment about contacting other member - Any member can contact another member by using the contact form. Here is how.

• First, login to praja.in.
• Then, click on the member's name anywhere on the site to go to that "user's page".
• Then, click on the 'contact' form to send this user/member a message.
• You wont be able to see other member's email address (privacy reasons, we NEVER expose any member contact details), but the message will be sent to the other user from your email id (that you have registered with praja.in).

If you face any problem in contacting another Praja member using the method described above, let us know (on this feedback thread)

 

Hi Bialterminal,

The picture was taken on sunday, the 25th at about 5PM - almost peak hour, with a large no. of visitors to the new airport. However, the view is from a distance & does not highlight the "busy" aspect clearly.

If you see the other pictures in the same photo stream, you will see a lot more people. Try this link :

http://flickr.com/photos/13879352@N07/2521095263/in/set-72157605249857719/

 

 

That day was the first sunday after BIAL opened & there were too many 'visitors' out there to get a feel of the facility (I was one of them !). Passengers, in comparison were few from what I had observed. The no. of such visitors blocking access for legitimate users will die down soon & those seeing their wards off will decline due to the inconvenience of long distance to the airport, I think.

Parking lots on that evening were also quite full & I had initially wondered if the area was sufficient, but I noticed later that most people were just visiting the new airport.

 

There are administration blocks and airline officess at the -1 level. Also in an emergency, the fire exits and escape routes from inside the terminal building, lead passengers below and out from these stairs.

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