Kuala Lumpur: While India struggles to modernise Delhi and Mumbai airports countries like China and Malaysia have already built airports that will last them for the next 20 years.
The swank Kuala Lumpur Airport is a lesson for India struggling to modernise Delhi and Mumbai airports.
This airport is capable of handling over 70 aircraft per hour. A figure Delhi and Mumbai airports together cannot match.
It has two parallel runways and over 106 parking bays enough to accomodate all the Indian carriers should they be allowed to fly there.
Over 46 airlines operate from this airport and it has been designed to meet traffic increase for the next seven years.
And this is just a fourth of what this airport can really achieve as the airport has enough extra space to expand.
For seamless movement of passengers there are 216 check-in counters and 146 immigration bays while Delhi has barely 20.
Two aero trains ferry passengers between the terminal building and a superfast train connects the airport to the city.
This integrated system could be replicated in Hyderabad.
A lot of effort has gone into making this airport environment friendly and there is a lot of use of natural light with even a tropical forest recreated and that too bang in the middle of the airport.
Minute details were kept in mind while building the airport. Even the kind of plants have been carefully selected to keep birds away.
The airport may be expensive, but it is paying back in revenue and tourist arrivals which are up 25 per cent.
By the time India's Mumbai and Delhi airports are upgraded, Kuala Lumpur will be able to handle 100 million passengers a year.
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