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Re: Bosco's of Oct 27 on Dabolim etc. Regarding the question about Kochi Airport, my information is that this was intended to be a private airport but eventually became a public-private partnership. The plan to finance it via user participation flopped. So a public limited company was floated in March 1994 with 26% government holding with the rest in private hands and with institutions. The airport occupies 1330 acres of land 30 km from Kochi. The airport is now in its 5th year of operation and caters to 13 lakh passengers annually (vs 9 lakhs at Dabolim per latest data). Hope this information will be of interest. As regards Subic Bay naval airbase in Philippines which I had mentioned it was closed by the Americans within 2 years of the end of the Cold War with the Soviet Union and China. The base had simply outlived its "startegic" purpose of containing communism.
