Vadodara (BDQ) Airport

[sammyk]

Originally Posted by Illusionist

you can never overbuild. whatever you build today becomes a baseline and its very hard and expensive to change later. especially road infra. most of Indian railway stations , airports , or bus stands are build in a way that its impossible to make any fundamental change. think ahead is the mantra. a stitch on time ...

You certainly can overbuild. See, without knowing any traffic projections for this airport it is impossible to say what is needed. The master plan may say that when this airport is expanded the road will need to change. There may also be space constraints and they have done the best they could with the area given.

Originally Posted by ImBoredNow

I just thought it might be better to give travellers wide space to navigate instead of giving oppurtunities for them to clog up.
The canal is making an unnecessary division.
I mean it's feasible, but not the best option in that area of the airport.
It looks great, but when travellers are going to hurry to get to the check in lines, then who's going to notice the canal.
The idea is not bad, but I'd prefer them to have it in the waiting/boarding area rather than at the that space.

It's hard to say if it is obstruction. Those bridges over the canal might be right in front of the doors so the passenger may be walking in and going right across the canal. I think it keeps things a bit more organized than if it wasn't there and people going in all sorts of directions.

[gts428]

Originally Posted by niknak

Vodadora Airport

Is that canal/water thingie intended to create a division-between ticket carrying passengers and scores of family members/casual visitors?

[rkramesh]

So it would seem gts going by the info in this thread...

The architects Frederic Schwartz had this to say...
"The stepped pool acts as a natural and physical separation between the visitor area and the check-in zone while creating a memorable experience for passengers, its reflectivity offering a psychological respite and calming of the soul for travelers."

And this render is from the airside end of the terminal - the waiting lounges...
BIAL could take a cue from here as to the aisle space between the seating area, which is similar to BIAL's in width and the cafe / shopping side of the aisle.


As far as I can see though , it doesnt seem like there's much more space available to expand the terminal modularily on this side of the runway...


And this may explain the tight curves and slower approach roads to the terminal drop off areas; not to mention the need for traffic to back track on the same oval just to park/ leave the airport. This would inefficiently double the traffic on the oval with the route overlap of incoming and outgoing traffic sharing the same road just to use the parking lot.

Managable perhaps if forecasted traffic stays below 3-5 million pax per year. (Guesstimating using the smaller aircraft (737/ 320) parking bays and size of terminal with 4 aerobridges compared with the size of BIAL terminal with 8 aerobridges for similar parking bay sizes)

[todmill]

Originally Posted by bhargavsura

Man... I think that's pretty cool looking one...

Just a rendering... Has it been approved for upcoming?

has been approved foundation laying on 27th of this month

[arijeetb]

Designs are getting better and better. Amazing

[India101]

Gujarat is getting some very cool modern new airports!

[dhim100]

I don't think the outside design has "wow" factor. From outside it looks more like an airplane hanger than an airport. But I like the interior, especially the canal. I like the way it separates passengers from visitors. Because of security reasons, Indian airports give a very limited access/space to visitors. In this rendering we can see that visitors area will be almost half of the total space, which is really nice.

One thing is for sure that it looks so much better than the existing airport. I have actually flown to/from this airport and it badly needs a renovation.

Regarding the traffic issue, I think four aero-bridges would definitely cater the need for the next 10-15 years. I believe currently this airport has about 20 arriving and departing flights a day. It's a fairly small airport.

[IndiansUnite]

The foundation stone was laid yesterday-




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[IndiansUnite]

PIB Press Release: Foundation Stone for New Integrated Terminal Laid at Vadodara

The Foundation stone laying ceremony for new Integrated Terminal Building was held at Vadodara today.

The new Integrated Terminal Building will have an area of 18120 sqm and will be a glass and steel structure having modern passenger friendly facilities such as central air conditioning system, inline x-ray baggage inspection system integrated with the baggage conveyor system, escalators, public address system, Flight Information Display System (FIDS), CCTV for surveillance, check in counters with Common Use Terminal Equipment (CUTE), car parking, etc. The Integrated Terminal Building will have peak hour passenger handling capacity of 700 passengers and annual handling capacity of 7.30 lakhs.

The integrated building will have the following salient features:

• Passenger handling capacity
  * Domestic : 500
  * International : 200
  
• Check-in counters : 18
  
• X ray scanners (for baggage) : 02
  
• Immigration Counters : 08
  
• Custom Counters : 06
  
• Security check booths : 04
  
• Conveyor Belt – arrival : 03

The Apron is to be extended to cater for parking of 07 Category ‘C’ type of aircrafts.

[GJ10]

Vadodara to have International Flights next year

Work on international airport in Vadodara will be complete by October next year and international flights will start from here. Union Minister of Civil Aviation Praful Patel made this statement while laying the foundation stone for new terminal at Vadodara airport.

He said that for international flights, the runways needed more land and the state government should provide land. 25 acre of land is needed, he said. The aviation ministry is in the process of construction of airports in Rajkot, Jamnagar, Porbandar, Surat, Bhuj and Vadodara.

AAI are keeping themselves quite busy it seems!!!

[vaibhav]

is tht true tht Gov. have cancled to build this airport to vadodara and instead moved it to surat.

i follow SCC for all info. but whn i called my frnd from vadodara he gave me this news.
if its true thn its really sad

[shreyas1684]

any news guys....

[LaVogue]

superb design..wow!

[29A]

Hey there!!

Vadodara guy here. Will post some U/C pics soon. (Just need to smuggle out my dad's (ahem ahem) 10 megapix cam out of the hose

[29A]

Just a thought:-

Why the hell are they going international, when A'bad is so close by with an international airport already (which will also dawn a new look shortly).

I would personally rather have the joy of riding the expressway to A'bad and then take an international flight.

[Illusionist]

Thanks man. Do 'borrow' the camera but dotn break it.
we are waiting to see updates

[shreyas1684]

even though vadodara is @ nearby Ahmadabad, it gets high inflow and outflow of international and national passengers from amd./mumbai/delhi plus don't forget it is one of the epicenter of NRIs like me.

vadodara needed international airport as much as surat wanted to get domestic airport for so long...

[MRBEAN4]

Guys,

Any news on how far the construction has gotten?

Thanks

[garvigujarat]

Originally Posted by 29A

Just a thought:-

Why the hell are they going international, when A'bad is so close by with an international airport already (which will also dawn a new look shortly).

I would personally rather have the joy of riding the expressway to A'bad and then take an international flight.

Agree.......ahmedabad is a 1 and halfhour drive frm Amd then why vadodara needs internationalairportsosoon.....!!
Still a city like ahmedabad with having international airport a decade ago is still striving for international airlines...then how could you expect good international connectivity to and frm vadodra which is a way smaller than ahmedabad....!!
even if the new terminal becomes operation i doubt vadodara would get more international destinations....!!

[garvigujarat]

Originally Posted by shreyas1684

even though vadodara is @ nearby Ahmadabad, it gets high inflow and outflow of international and national passengers from amd./mumbai/delhi plus don't forget it is one of the epicenter of NRIs like me.

vadodara needed international airport as much as surat wanted to get domestic airport for so long...

i kinda disagree with you....just think the condition of amd international airport...it urgently needs more international flights but is still striving...!!
then how could you think that vadodara airport would get good international connectivity.....commansense...yaar.....!!