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I never had an oppurtunity to be at the new bangalore Airport but would constantly hear from my brother Aditya about it being too far away from the city ( He is doing his engineering in Bangalore ) .It became so incessant, his bickering , that it plunged me into giving a thought as to why the decision makers chose this place as their site !
Though he has always admitted that it is far ahead of the present state-of-the-art his complain is completely to do with its location .He always says that nobody seems to know just how far it is from the heart of the city , but everybody thinks it is very far .Now he has a valid point to make when he says that due to the far-ness it becomes a subject of higher math to calculate when you should be leaving to catch the flight ( It involves the concept of space-time relativity :)) , especially keeping in mind the traffic snarl-ups bangalore is diseased with , and , it being just one of the un-control-ables .He suggests the use of lunar calendars based on some vedic system of calibration :) or maybe astrologers .
He has his constant Hows ? Whys ? .I did find some answers to it , if i may suggest so ( though i would say they are generic suggestions and would not be logical always , do not try being cynics :) ) :
1. REAL ESTATE : The farther the airport away from the city the more the connecting land between the city and the airport .Now people in the know-how of the scheme of things could buy the land in advance at dirt cheap rates and then rake in the moolah later on .Simply said " The farther the airport -> the more the connecting land -> the more the prospective real estate -> the more the money to be made by insiders ( no brownie points for guessing who the insiders could be ! :) )
2. CARBON-FOOTPRINT: Now each flight that takes off from any airport of any city does leave a carbon footprint that depends directly on the (A) sheer number of flights and (B) their duration .
(A) Farther the airport -> More the avoidance in people towards flying
(B) Farther the airport -> Shorter the flight duration between airports
Now an interesting point to be made is , ( though might be comical to you ) assume airports start being so far from the city that they are almost mid-way the flight route , what we could do is then start sharing an airport for 2 cities .Similarly other cities could follow suit and eventually we land up with something very interesting and that is 1 Airport for the whole of the country , thus obviating forever the need to fly and thereby creating carbon-footprints ( though the Pachauris could lecture the whole world on it , travelling on planes , resulting hence in creating more of it :) ) .
ULTIMATE MOTION CONTROL IN AIR !!
