If you ever been to Bangalore Airport on Friday evening, you would have asked the same question. "Is this an Airport or a Railway Station!!!"
Never even on a railway station will you find the amount of crowd and the queue to start your journey. Last week I reached two hours before my scheduled flight time.. and I had thought I will have to find ways to kill time. Was in for a huge surprise when I had to queue up for 90 minutes for the security checkup. No doubt the flight was delayed but the scene at the airport that Friday evening was shocking. It was chaos all around and nothing seemed to make sense as to why is there such a huge queue. There must easily be around 200 hundred people in front of my queue alone and there were like 4 such queues lined up for the security check.
I was shocked and so I asked the KF attendant as to what is wrong today. She replied graciously that this is normal ever friday. I was more shocked since just 3 weeks back I was at Bangalore Airport on friday and all the security check took was 15 minutes max. Anyways, everyone in the queue was complaining and shocked but as you would expect from our AAI (Airport Authorities of India) they were least bothered. The airlines couldn't help cause this was AAI matter and they anyways were having a tough time managing the angry crowd.
Even after having my check done, which individually considered, took the same amount of time as it always does, I couldn't understand why was there such a huge queue. It was like entire Bangalore was flying out at that exact moment. From where did all these flights come from.
The AAI security staff were coolly and calmly doing their check as if they have no clue whats going on outside. Obviously they didn't care.
The respective Flight attendants were seen fighting with the security guards to let some of them in since the flight is waiting just for them to get in. All that made no effect to them. Its as if the AAI just didn't get it. You don't take a flight so that u have to reach 3 hours in advance and stand in a queue that takes 2 hours for a security check. Somehow all that made no sense to AAI. The guards were doing their job, but the Airport management was definitely sleeping.
Never even on a railway station will you find the amount of crowd and the queue to start your journey. Last week I reached two hours before my scheduled flight time.. and I had thought I will have to find ways to kill time. Was in for a huge surprise when I had to queue up for 90 minutes for the security checkup. No doubt the flight was delayed but the scene at the airport that Friday evening was shocking. It was chaos all around and nothing seemed to make sense as to why is there such a huge queue. There must easily be around 200 hundred people in front of my queue alone and there were like 4 such queues lined up for the security check.
I was shocked and so I asked the KF attendant as to what is wrong today. She replied graciously that this is normal ever friday. I was more shocked since just 3 weeks back I was at Bangalore Airport on friday and all the security check took was 15 minutes max. Anyways, everyone in the queue was complaining and shocked but as you would expect from our AAI (Airport Authorities of India) they were least bothered. The airlines couldn't help cause this was AAI matter and they anyways were having a tough time managing the angry crowd.
Even after having my check done, which individually considered, took the same amount of time as it always does, I couldn't understand why was there such a huge queue. It was like entire Bangalore was flying out at that exact moment. From where did all these flights come from.
The AAI security staff were coolly and calmly doing their check as if they have no clue whats going on outside. Obviously they didn't care.
The respective Flight attendants were seen fighting with the security guards to let some of them in since the flight is waiting just for them to get in. All that made no effect to them. Its as if the AAI just didn't get it. You don't take a flight so that u have to reach 3 hours in advance and stand in a queue that takes 2 hours for a security check. Somehow all that made no sense to AAI. The guards were doing their job, but the Airport management was definitely sleeping.
