Re: [silk] Airport Check-In Design

2008-06-22 Thread va
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 7:46 AM, Gautam John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 11:46 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bloody hell, that's not even the issue. Just eight jetways, no parallel Of which only four can be used if it's wide-body jets. Epic fail.

Re: [silk] Airport Check-In Design

2008-06-20 Thread Vinit B
, but the habit remains. - Vinit -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Perry E. Metzger Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 11:45 PM To: silklist@lists.hserus.net Subject: Re: [silk] Airport Check-In Design Madhu Menon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Biju

Re: [silk] Airport Check-In Design

2008-06-18 Thread Gautam John
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 11:46 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bloody hell, that's not even the issue. Just eight jetways, no parallel Of which only four can be used if it's wide-body jets. Epic fail. Albert Brunner and the rest of the foreign importees on BIAL were

Re: [silk] Airport Check-In Design

2008-06-18 Thread Biju Chacko
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 12:16 PM, Gautam John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Question: Would managing the Zurich airport be a good criterion to select someone to manage an airport? Is it big? Well traffic-ed? Or were we sold down the river? They're phoren, after all -- therefore they must be better.

Re: [silk] Airport Check-In Design

2008-06-18 Thread Madhu Menon
Biju Chacko wrote: Question: Would managing the Zurich airport be a good criterion to select someone to manage an airport? Is it big? Well traffic-ed? Or were we sold down the river? They're phoren, after all -- therefore they must be better. :-) Maybe one day we will get over that fixation.

Re: [silk] Airport Check-In Design

2008-06-18 Thread Gautam John
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 12:33 PM, Madhu Menon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (Giancarlo's Place in B'lore is a prime example, as both Gautam and I will testify.) To be fair, he isn't a chef. :P -- Please read our new blog at: http://blog.prathambooks.org/

Re: [silk] Airport Check-In Design

2008-06-18 Thread Madhu Menon
Gautam John wrote: To be fair, he isn't a chef. :P But his chef, an Italian too, supposedly is. ;) -- * Madhu Menon Shiok Far-eastern Cuisine Indiranagar, Bangalore Visit us @ http://www.shiokfood.com Shiok on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bangalore-India/Shiok/7498426855

Re: [silk] Airport Check-In Design

2008-06-18 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
@lists.hserus.net Subject: Re: [silk] Airport Check-In Design Gautam John wrote: To be fair, he isn't a chef. :P But his chef, an Italian too, supposedly is. ;) -- * Madhu Menon Shiok Far-eastern Cuisine Indiranagar, Bangalore Visit us @ http://www.shiokfood.com Shiok

Re: [silk] Airport Check-In Design

2008-06-18 Thread Gautam John
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 12:44 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bella Ciao in Madras .. Karra and I landed there once to get a very weird Ugh. The one outside town has the advantage of being by the beach. The one in town is the pits. Food and otherwise. -- Please read our

Re: [silk] Airport Check-In Design

2008-06-18 Thread Sumant Srivathsan
Ugh. The one outside town has the advantage of being by the beach. The one in town is the pits. Food and otherwise. Bella Ciao went downhill after a change in management. I knew the previous owners - they really could cook. -- Sumant Srivathsan sumants.blogspot.com

Re: [silk] Airport Check-In Design

2008-06-18 Thread ss
Well Madhu - you're a foreigner so we all love you.. shiv On Wednesday 18 Jun 2008 12:33:53 pm Madhu Menon wrote: Biju Chacko wrote: Question: Would managing the Zurich airport be a good criterion to select someone to manage an airport? Is it big? Well traffic-ed? Or were we sold down

Re: [silk] Airport Check-In Design

2008-06-18 Thread Abhishek Hazra
Max Muller's first volume of the Rig-Veda, published by OUP, had a second title page in Sanskrit where he sanskrtized the names of Germany, Oxford and himself as: Sharmanya Desha (The Brahminic Country) Ukshatarana (ford of the Ox) Bhatta Moksha Mulara (the learned Moksha Mulara) abhishek On

Re: [silk] Airport Check-In Design

2008-06-17 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
at a baggage drop counter so they can be tagged. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gautam John Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 9:25 PM To: silklist@lists.hserus.net Subject: [silk] Airport Check-In Design Article location:http

Re: [silk] Airport Check-In Design

2008-06-17 Thread Gautam John
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 9:28 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you just carry hand baggage, you can check in with these guys. If you want to check bags, you can just checkin with them and drop your bags off at a baggage drop counter so they can be tagged. In Bangalore, at

Re: [silk] Airport Check-In Design

2008-06-17 Thread Biju Chacko
In Bangalore, at the old airport, you had to stand in queue with everyone else to drop in your tagged luggage. Kinda stupid. Not as stupid as the fact that the new airport is already over capacity: http://www.hindu.com/2008/06/17/stories/2008061758670300.htm Separate terminal for low-cost