Some Staggeringly Disproportionate Numbers (between Indian & Pakistani Civil Airlines)

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Why all 747 are stationed at Mumbai ?
Right now Air India has four active B747-400 aircraft. All four are tasked with ad-hoc Hajj flights from DEL, BOM, HYD, COK, and LKO to Jeddah. Their average age is 19 years, which is less than the average age of the B747-400 of British Airways which do several Transatlantic sectors, however, Air India opted for cheaper Pratt & Whitney engines compared to more reliable Rolls-Royce ones which pull British Airways 747s, so Air India isn't using B747-400 for regular long-haul services. Occasionally the best B747-400 is pulled out for use as Air India One by the Prime Minister's Office.
 

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Hyderabad (HYD): Rajiv Gandhi International Airport. 1 terminal, 2 runways (designed by a Norwegian architect).





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New runway and terminal coming up in that vacant land above.

BTW, here's the satpic of BLR, with a new terminal and parallel runway being actively constructed:

 

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Islamabad airport worst in the world: survey
Dawn.comPublished Oct 18, 2014 04:30pm



Islamabad's Benazir Bhutto International Airport. — Photo by Irfan Haider

KARACHI: A survey conducted by "The Guide to Sleeping in Airports" website shows Islamabad's Benazir Bhutto International Airport as the world's worst airport.

The survey says the airport, often "likened to a central prison", can be aggressive yet inconsistent in its security checks and crowd control is often minimal if not entirely absent.

The airport is also largely unclean and is sparsely equipped in terms of technology, the survey says.

A traveller told the website that “the Islamabad airport is like as a central prison. Many of touts & taxi drivers loot people at airport & outside”.

Also read: Footprints: New Islamabad airport a distant dream

“Travellers have also complained about the airport’s inability to handle passengers for over a decade,” the website said, adding that it was a relief that a new airport was finally being constructed in Pakistan’s federal capital.

The website rated Jeddah’s King Abdulaziz International Airport as the second worst airport in the world with Nepal’s Kathmandu Tribhuvan International Airport taking the third slot.
 

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A little Off-topic, a little on-topic

Pakistan’s misguided obsession with infrastructure
The government is building more airports, roads and railways, even though the existing ones are underused

NEARLY 20 years after it opened, Pakistan’s first motorway still has a desolate feel. There is scant traffic along the 375km link between Islamabad and Lahore (pictured). Motorists can drive for miles without seeing another vehicle, save perhaps for traffic cops manning speed traps. As the two cities are already connected by the Grand Trunk Road, which is 90km shorter and toll-free, there is simply not much demand for a motorway.

Yet this $1.2bn white elephant is one of the proudest achievements of Nawaz Sharif, who was prime minister when it opened in 1997 and is once again running Pakistan. Mr Sharif, who enjoys comparisons to Sher Shah Suri, a 16th-century ruler who renovated the Grand Trunk Road, never tires of talking about it. He regained power in 2013 with a campaign which both harked back to his famous road and promised more infrastructure to come. He (Sharif) even pledged bullet trains that would enable pious passengers to leave Karachi after dawn prayers and arrive in Peshawar, more than 1,000km to the north, in time for evening worship.


It is an article of faith for Mr Sharif and his party, the Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N), that investment in infrastructure is a foolproof way of boosting the economy. His government is racing to finish umpteen projects before the next election, due by mid-2018, including a metro line in Lahore and a new airport for Islamabad. The likelihood is that the new airport (which has been plagued with problems, including runways that have been built too close together) will be as underused as most of the country’s other airports, many of which are modern and spacious.

Pakistan’s infrastructure is underused because the economic boom it was meant to trigger has never arrived. Over the past three years the government has successfully staved off a balance-of-payments crisis, achieving some measure of macroeconomic stability. It has trimmed the budget deficit, partly by broadening the tax take and partly by cutting energy subsidies. That, along with lower oil prices, has narrowed Pakistan’s trade deficit and allowed it to begin rebuilding its foreign-exchange reserves. The stockmarket has risen by 50% since the end of 2015.

But terrorism and insurgency have put off investors, both foreign and domestic. The country is also held back by inefficient and often cartelised industries, which have fallen behind rivals in India and Bangladesh. Exports, 60% of which are textiles, have been shrinking for years. Much more needs to be done to create an educated workforce. Almost half of all those aged five to 16 are out of school—25m children. Health, like education, is woefully underfunded, in part because successive governments shy away from taxing the wealthy. Only 0.6% of the population pays income tax. As the World Bank puts it, Pakistan’s long-term development depends on “better nutrition, health and education”.

There are limits, however. Khawaja Saad Rafique, the railways minister, recently admitted to parliament that the country would not be getting a bullet train after all. “When we asked the Chinese about it, they laughed at us,” he said.
 

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Islamabad airport worst in the world: survey
Dawn.comPublished Oct 18, 2014 04:30pm



Islamabad's Benazir Bhutto International Airport. — Photo by Irfan Haider

KARACHI: A survey conducted by "The Guide to Sleeping in Airports" website shows Islamabad's Benazir Bhutto International Airport as the world's worst airport.

The survey says the airport, often "likened to a central prison", can be aggressive yet inconsistent in its security checks and crowd control is often minimal if not entirely absent.

The airport is also largely unclean and is sparsely equipped in terms of technology, the survey says.

A traveller told the website that “the Islamabad airport is like as a central prison. Many of touts & taxi drivers loot people at airport & outside”.

Also read: Footprints: New Islamabad airport a distant dream

“Travellers have also complained about the airport’s inability to handle passengers for over a decade,” the website said, adding that it was a relief that a new airport was finally being constructed in Pakistan’s federal capital.

The website rated Jeddah’s King Abdulaziz International Airport as the second worst airport in the world with Nepal’s Kathmandu Tribhuvan International Airport taking the third slot.
Yup it is one of the most crappiest airport you will ever be but it did manage to get out of the top 10 worst airports and went to something around 15th place after some investment by the Government . but the good news is that they are building a new one which is much better

about the low air traffic there are two reasons one it is really expensive so most people cant afford it son intercity air travel is low another reason is road infrastructure is excellent and traveling by it is more cheap and provides the same services as air travel....
 

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A little Off-topic, a little on-topic

Pakistan’s misguided obsession with infrastructure
The government is building more airports, roads and railways, even though the existing ones are underused

NEARLY 20 years after it opened, Pakistan’s first motorway still has a desolate feel. There is scant traffic along the 375km link between Islamabad and Lahore (pictured). Motorists can drive for miles without seeing another vehicle, save perhaps for traffic cops manning speed traps. As the two cities are already connected by the Grand Trunk Road, which is 90km shorter and toll-free, there is simply not much demand for a motorway.

Yet this $1.2bn white elephant is one of the proudest achievements of Nawaz Sharif, who was prime minister when it opened in 1997 and is once again running Pakistan. Mr Sharif, who enjoys comparisons to Sher Shah Suri, a 16th-century ruler who renovated the Grand Trunk Road, never tires of talking about it. He regained power in 2013 with a campaign which both harked back to his famous road and promised more infrastructure to come. He (Sharif) even pledged bullet trains that would enable pious passengers to leave Karachi after dawn prayers and arrive in Peshawar, more than 1,000km to the north, in time for evening worship.


It is an article of faith for Mr Sharif and his party, the Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N), that investment in infrastructure is a foolproof way of boosting the economy. His government is racing to finish umpteen projects before the next election, due by mid-2018, including a metro line in Lahore and a new airport for Islamabad. The likelihood is that the new airport (which has been plagued with problems, including runways that have been built too close together) will be as underused as most of the country’s other airports, many of which are modern and spacious.

Pakistan’s infrastructure is underused because the economic boom it was meant to trigger has never arrived. Over the past three years the government has successfully staved off a balance-of-payments crisis, achieving some measure of macroeconomic stability. It has trimmed the budget deficit, partly by broadening the tax take and partly by cutting energy subsidies. That, along with lower oil prices, has narrowed Pakistan’s trade deficit and allowed it to begin rebuilding its foreign-exchange reserves. The stockmarket has risen by 50% since the end of 2015.

But terrorism and insurgency have put off investors, both foreign and domestic. The country is also held back by inefficient and often cartelised industries, which have fallen behind rivals in India and Bangladesh. Exports, 60% of which are textiles, have been shrinking for years. Much more needs to be done to create an educated workforce. Almost half of all those aged five to 16 are out of school—25m children. Health, like education, is woefully underfunded, in part because successive governments shy away from taxing the wealthy. Only 0.6% of the population pays income tax. As the World Bank puts it, Pakistan’s long-term development depends on “better nutrition, health and education”.

There are limits, however. Khawaja Saad Rafique, the railways minister, recently admitted to parliament that the country would not be getting a bullet train after all. “When we asked the Chinese about it, they laughed at us,” he said.
this is stupid M-2 is the busiest roads in pakistan
this is an ARTICLE FROM 2002 !!
https://www.dawn.com/news/136272
The National Highway Authority (NHA) has collected Rs1.36 billion toll tax and fines on Lahore-Islamabad Motorway (M2) during the last three years.
yes i agree on the last part about bullet train being stupid right now we dont have proper infrastructure to run our normal locomotive
i also agree with the part of the mismanagement of new Islamabad airport bloody zardari had to screw every project in his time.
 

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Yup it is one of the most crappiest airport you will ever be but it did manage to get out of the top 10 worst airports and went to something around 15th place after some investment by the Government . but the good news is that they are building a new one which is much better

about the low air traffic there are two reasons one it is really expensive so most people cant afford it son intercity air travel is low another reason is road infrastructure is excellent and traveling by it is more cheap and provides the same services as air travel....
Yes I read the news about new airport. Good initiative. The problem is that air passenger traffic directly points to the economic prosperity and living standards of a country. Increase in air traffic and passenger planes directly implies that the country's economic growth rate is increasing as well as the per capita income of citizens is increasing.

However, in Pakistan the GDP growth rate is not reflected in air traffic.
 

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this is stupid M-2 is the busiest roads in pakistan
this is an ARTICLE FROM 2002 !!
https://www.dawn.com/news/136272
The National Highway Authority (NHA) has collected Rs1.36 billion toll tax and fines on Lahore-Islamabad Motorway (M2) during the last three years.
yes i agree on the last part about bullet train being stupid right now we dont have proper infrastructure to run our normal locomotive
i also agree with the part of the mismanagement of new Islamabad airport bloody zardari had to screw every project in his time.
The problem is in Pakistan the government as well as the army is overwhelmingly corrupt. In India as well but the difference is that Indians at least get something in return. In Pakistan as far as I've observed, the projects are consistently delayed and not in line with the country's requirements.
 

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Chandigarh International Airport (IXC). 2 terminals, 1 runway.















Above is the new Terminal 2 which handles international and full-service domestic carriers (Air India, Jet Airways, Vistara).

Below is the old Terminal 1 (it currently handles low-cost IndiGo/SpiceJet/GoAir). It was modernized just 5 years ago.

 

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India is an unsung giant in the area of Aircraft Maintenance and Aircraft Maintenance Training. Air India Engineering Services Ltd (AIESL) is a large player in the field of Aircraft Maintenance, offering services to even foreign airlines such as Cathay Pacific and Qantas.

Air India Maintenance Training Organizations (MTOs) is the only organization to provide Type Aircraft Maintenance courses for both Airbus and Boeing models, that too with a very competitive fees.

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^^Air India Maintenance Training Org (MTO-TRV) at Trivandrum,Kerala. This particular MTO offers training on B-737 & A-320. There are some 8 MTOs all over India offering various courses on pretty much all aircraft types of Air India.
 

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Considering that is about the proportionate population what is surprising about that?
That logic doesn't fly with the various Persian Gulf carriers. Pakistan citizens need connectivity to the same places abroad as Indians.

Also, air-traffic between Pakistan's two top cities (Lahore and Karachi) is 1/14th that of the air-traffic between India's top-two (Mumbai and Delhi).

You can pull out plenty of socio-economic inferences from the state of Pakistan's civil aviation.
 

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Considering that is about the proportionate population what is surprising about that?
Local factor here, it's not only about connectivity around the world but country also.

For the rest, research about quality of carriers they use, how old they are. As well as airport facilities,
 

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