[Goanet] RE: Viewpoint on Dabolim airport
<... not counting either that the Indian Navy holds on to most of the daylight hours for its own exercises .. and that the Indian Navy expects the charters to land at Dabolim in the middle of the night too ...>[Gabriel Figueiredo] The Navy's "no fly" rule is (effectively) for 4.5 hours per day. This takes out 18 planes (or 36 flights) reducing the total of 48 to 30 planes (or 60 flights) per day. This may not be too far from the estimated daily average of 20 planes (actuals). Some allowance may have to be given for slow starts and early shut downs etc by AAI. But Gilbert's point about "where's the beef?" may be valid. A lot depends on the validity of his 15 minute per plane assumption.
Re: [Goanet] RE: Viewpoint on Dabolim airport
--- cornel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Philip, > I take it that you expected to hear that 12 hours > multiplied by 4 (landings > per hour) should result in 48 landings. Of course, > there would be take-offs > which are not included in the calculation. > Cornel ... not counting either that the Indian Navy holds on to most of the daylight hours for its own exercises ... ... and that the Indian Navy expects the charters to land at Dabolim in the middle of the night too ... Cheers, Gabriel. Do you Yahoo!? Find a local business fast with Yahoo! Local Search http://au.local.yahoo.com
Re: [Goanet] RE: Viewpoint on Dabolim airport
Philip, I take it that you expected to hear that 12 hours multiplied by 4 (landings per hour) should result in 48 landings. Of course, there would be take-offs which are not included in the calculation. Cornel - Original Message - From: "Philip Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, October 03, 2005 11:21 AM Subject: [Goanet] RE: Viewpoint on Dabolim airport between 6 AM and 6 PM. My relatives who have flown into Goa call the airport much, much better than before. So what is the big problem with Dabolim? Please respond with facts rather than opinions>[Gilbert Lawrence, Sept] Is there some "new math" in this calculation? What is the explanation for the author's result? Anybody have a clue?
Re: [Goanet] RE: Viewpoint on Dabolim airport
Don't hammer yourself on this one Philip. On another issue, I also read that a short span of time is anything between 60 to 65 years :-) hAVE a nICE dAY!! Rgds/Seb - Original Message - From: "Philip Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> between 6 AM and 6 PM. My relatives who have flown into Goa call the airport much, much better than before. So what is the big problem with Dabolim? Please respond with facts rather than opinions>[Gilbert Lawrence, Sept] Is there some "new math" in this calculation? What is the explanation for the author's result? Anybody have a clue?
[Goanet] RE: Viewpoint on Dabolim airport
[Gilbert Lawrence, Sept] Is there some "new math" in this calculation? What is the explanation for the author's result? Anybody have a clue?
[Goanet] Re: VIEWPOINT on Dabolim Airport - 1
In India, there are hardly any night-time domestic flights -- except a very few connecting the big metros. This probably means the navy is willing to accomodate the tourism lobby, ruin the sleep hours of the state, but not stop their ludicrous peak-morning naval flights which disrupts the continuous working of the airport and bottlenecks all the flights to a narrow afternoon slot. The navy and the Airport Authorites of India have been blaming each other for inefficiencies of the airport (mostly the AAI getting blamed). But for the traveller entering Dabolim, life remains trying. Haven't we seen this airport repeately getting crores of rupees for renovation which hardly reflects in the quality of work there? Also, isn't this one of the few airports in the world which doesn't have a public bus service connected to it? FN On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 12:46 +0530, Goa Desc wrote: > The naval authorities have said that though the Dabolim > airport was available for operations, it has not been utilised > by the operators of scheduled and chartered flights after 6 p.m > adding that there was ample scope for accommodating large > number of commercial flights in the time slot from > 6 p.m to 6 a.m.
[Goanet] RE: VIEWPOINT on Dabolim Airport - 1
[Goadesc] A clear misrepresentation of the situation. Mopa is not a recent development. It emerged almost 10 years ago, possibly under Luizinho Faleiro's administration. He is known to have almost given up at the time on getting the Navy to shift from Dabolim. There was also the precedent of Kochi at that time where the Kerala state government had to think of other options when the Navy dug in its heels at the Island airport (which could not be scaled up anway as Dabolim could be). CIAL at Kochi has since gone on to become the only example of a greenfield airport in India. It has also become the (misleading in my opinion in the low cost aviation era) model for greenfield airports with private participation where existing airports have to close down when the new one is commissioned. This has happened in Bangalore and Hyderabad and may happen in Pune. The Navy is probably waiting for this turn of events at Dabolim in the wake of Mopa. Pointing fingers at the central government is interesting. The latter has yet to take a view about Dabolim, post-Mopa, despite Margaret Alva's statement as a party functionary of the Congress. There have been piece meal press reports however about the cosy relations between GOG and the Navy vis a vis both Mopa and Dabolim airports. No inside story about this equation has emerged so far. A recent HERALD article on Navy House, Vasco, seems to very obliquely suggest that the Navy is the (invisible) power (e.g. "White House"!) behind GOG! Worth pondering.
