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Nice new airport, same old shakedown
Updated On: 15 October, 2009 06:47 AM IST | | George Verghese
George Verghese, professor at an American university, walks into Bangalore's gleaming new arrival terminal, but his delight is shortlived
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George Verghese, professor at an American university, walks into Bangalore's gleaming new arrival terminal, but his delight is shortlived
Nearly two years after my last visit to Bangalore, what a treat it was to land at the new airport, gleaming and bright at midnight. The lines moved quickly past the infrared camera and the health-check desk, then through immigration. Bags plucked off the belt, a few minutes at the duty-free shop to pick up some last gifts, and then past the customs desk to the waiting car.
Nearly two years after my last visit to Bangalore, what a treat it was to land at the new airport, gleaming and bright at midnight. The lines moved quickly past the infrared camera and the health-check desk, then through immigration. Bags plucked off the belt, a few minutes at the duty-free shop to pick up some last gifts, and then past the customs desk to the waiting car.
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