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Re: Bernado Colaco's and Ivar Fjeld's of Nov 24 A day after complaining that the media are neglecting Dabolim airport matters, I was virtually carpet bombed by articles in today's paper! One article spoke about Kerala's move to develop a fourth international standard airport. Another was about Jet bagging the award for "Best Domestic Airline". The third article which was the most tantalising one was outwardly not about aviation at all. It was about Churchill Alemao's visit to Delhi on Nov 22 which he claims was solely to attend a meeting of the Defence Committee of which he is reportedly a member. Let's hope he got to follow up about his memo on Dabolim and that the results are disseminated one of these days in the press or Goanet. In the meantime I came across an issue of Business World magazine (Nov 22) which also has two articles about aviation. One of them talks about Air Sahara's radical plan to start a "hub" at Hyderabad beginning in 2005 to provide quick connections for passengers flying from North India to South India (including Goa). The other is about the travails of Bangalore's proposed international airport. The latter make one feel that Goa is still in with a chance of re-writing the prevailing rules of the airport development game by pushing for a joint management of Dabolim (along the lines of Honolulu) and a separate construction of Mopa. Finally, a few days ago I came across a report that Gujarat holds the record for the max number of airports (8) and it is anxious to convert one of the 7 into an international airport to complement Ahmedabad. So airport planning and development is in fashion. What is Goa doing about it? A million dollar question, right?
