India Aviation is on
boom. Brand India is doing wonders. Indians are employing Europeans,
Australians, Americans, Africans. There is a Pilot shortage,
Controller’s shortage, Infrastructure shortage Will we be able to
sustain growth as all of us would want to or simply it would be another
bubble.
If India is to succeed
as world power by 2020 we need to succeed as
Airports. Airports are
gateway to any Country. All the growth would enter or transit from the
Airports. Why can’t we do it? Are we too busy to plan, do, check and act
on the issues that we know so well? Don’t we know we require more
parking bays? Why we need to concentrate only on Mumbai and Delhi? Don’t
we know there are other Airports? Why do we plan passenger terminals for
250 persons when the requirement is for 4000 people? Why the airspaces
cannot be redesigned for accommodating more aircraft? Why the
jurisdiction of Jaipur cannot be raised to FL 190. Why does the parallel
taxi track miss from the master plan? Why more pilots cannot be trained?
Why we have to do fire fighting always? Why there are no solutions?
Is the growth too fast
to digest? But all of us wanted to grow or take promotions very fast. Is
there a vacuum in leadership? Or we fail to work as a team. Or is it
outsiders that are to be blamed. What should be done? Why can’t we do
it?
Some of the solutions
are:
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Decentralize
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Develop Airports
Authority on the lines of Railways. Let there be Northern Airports
Authority or South west Airports Authority
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Let each station
develop its own master plan.
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Let our plans
correlate with the 40 % growth.
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Let’s make new
Airports.
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Let’s not lose the
multi- crores business of ground handling.
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Let’s not say no.
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Let there be vision
papers.
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Let’s sell Kota for
100 crores.
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Let’s takeover all
airstrips in Rajasthan and build another 10 Airports just in
Rajasthan.
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Let’s develop
exemplary human development programme.
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Let us covert each
employee into a leader.
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Let’s Succeed as
Airports Authority.