<**The Minister also informed the House that a total of 15655 international and domestic flights have operated at the Dabolim Airport in 2005-06. The passengers handled per day during peak season (November to February) in the Dabolim sector varies from 1153 to 1241 in the international sector and 978 to 2428 in the domestic sector. During lean season(May to September) passengers handled per day is as low as 41 for international and 1141 for domestic sector .**>
This is the piece meal, idiosyncratic data reportedly provided by the Civil Aviation Minister in the Rajya Sabha to justify the "new terminal building at Goa airport". How can you justify anything with this kind of exercise in pulling numbers out of a hat? No trends whatsoever have been presented. It is high time someone did a "full Monty" on Dabolim civil enclave so that data are made available in international standard format. We need to be able to compare Dabolim with (a) other civil enclaves like Bangalore HAL, Hyderabad Begumpet and Pune Lohegaon; and (b) other mid-ranking airports like Cochin International and Ahmedabad Airport. And while on the subject, I would give an arm and a leg to know what the Mopa airport report had to say about traffic trends at Dabolim. But that may be even more of a state secret than security factors at Dabolim naval air station! How silly. _____________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. Goanet mailing list ([email protected])
