before rushing into building an airport no one flies
into and which will soon become out of date.
Mattala Airport was inaugurated with
much fanfare, but anyone who knows about maintenance and white elephants knows
that somethings that are NOT used at capacity become obsolete before their
time, and it seems that Mattala already is showing signs of being relegated to
a position of a maintenance nightmare, where toilets are clogging, and rust is
setting in from lack of use!
There are costs of keeping new
constructions empty too!!!
In any case the latest salvo to hit Sri
Lanka in the form of its only active Airport being branded as one of the most inefficient
in the world is a direct hit at the incompetence of the administration to run
anything under their control.
It is time we hold the administration to
account for their failures, because they continue to ad nauseam parrot their successes
and people have tended to be de sensitized to believe anything thrown at them
as they are incapable of being cynical to Govt. pronouncements.
It is clearly a very serious matter if
we are classified such in the world rankings, as it is an airport which one can
hardly call busy in terms of takeoff and landings. It is interesting that
Atlanta’s Hartsfield one of the busiest airports in the world is ranked top,
and has a plane landing taking off every 5 seconds! I wold like to see BIA top
that! Not in anyone’s life time.
Actually I am being constructive, as I would
prefer if the authorities take this not as an insult but look at why they believe
they have been classified as inefficient and do what is necessary to improve
upon that at the quickest opportunity.
The aim is to be able to impress
passengers about how good BIA is so that the word of mouth from the flying
public will spread so fast that it will benefit the tourist industry and Sri
Lankan Airlines, where people will chose to fly Sri Lankan because the mother
airport is efficient for flight changes and transit to other destinations.
One has so much to deal with it is good
to prioritize and I believe the head of AAS that runs BIA is a family member of
the ruling regime and I wonder whether that has a bearing on why the airport is
down this low in ranking!
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