<I get the feeling that Mopa airport plans is to cater to the large new Airbus, Jumbos, yet a high percentage of traffic is on the Airbus 300, Boeing 737 type aircraft which can be accomodated at Dabolim.>[George Pinto]
GOG has not publicly outlined its plans for Mopa so far. We only have the Indian Express report of May 27 in this connection to go by and it does not ascribe the idea to GOG specifically. Neither has GOG endorsed this plan in any formu to my knowledge. But the post of mine under reference was in response to one where the CM talks about the need to accommodate "huge aircrafts". This could mean Airbus A380s proposed in the Indian Express story. We need to get behind the scenes and find out why such a far out idea (re A380s) was cooked up and fed to the media and GOG. I feel Mopa should begin with Boeing 737s and A320s while Dabolim could be geared up for scheduled B747 international flights. Where such flights would come from is a good question given the sharp seasonality factor involved.