India wants Bangladesh land for Agartala airport expansion

[Nilgiri]

Bangladesh has no choice but to capitulate.

First let them talk here a bit about not capitulating

It's a mutually beneficial friendly proposal, Bangladesh will agree if we insist.

 

[Chhatrapati]

When Dada says.

 

[Bilal9]

Are u seriously comparing a regional airport, that too in the north east with you international airport in capital city of your country?

You did not get my drift. The point was that they do not need to spend money expanding the airport when they can hop over the border, drive forty or so miles and then catch any flight anywhere (including larger Indian metros). Spicejet and Indigo serves Dhaka, as does Air India. Just to have bragging rights for a regional airport which serves minimal number of passengers once or twice a week is pointless.

 

[Nilgiri]

You did not get my drift. The point was that they do not need to spend money expanding the airport when they can hop over the border, drive forty or so miles and then catch any flight anywhere (including larger Indian metros). Spicejet and Indigo serves Dhaka, as does Air India. Just to have bragging rights for a regional airport which serves minimal number of passengers once or twice a week is pointless.

Bangladesh is a LDC swamp with crappy airports (and even worse logistics) we don't want anyone to have to go thru the pain of experiencing anymore than they absolutely have to (i.e just keep them for BD citizens and expats that have no choice).

There is a driving reason behind the gross lack of investment in BD airports:

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/IS.AIR.PSGR?locations=IN-BD

Without the requisite demand push (and thus margin to get good ROI), you simply have status quo squalid things like that abomination of a bus-stand that thinks its an airport in Dhaka.

 

[Arulmozhi Varman]

You did not get my drift. The point was that they do not need to spend money expanding the airport when they can hop over the border, drive forty or so miles and then catch any flight anywhere (including larger Indian metros). Spicejet and Indigo serves Dhaka, as does Air India. Just to have bragging rights for a regional airport which serves minimal number of passengers once or twice a week is pointless.

The distance from Agartala to Dhaka is 130km. In SA standards, it will take 3.5 hours atleast in a 4 lane highway. And another 2 hours in the famous 7km/hr Dhaka traffic. As someone pointed out, it was WW2 era airport. Not built right now. BD can lease some land to India for a price. or let a BD private company buy land and let them lease to the Airport company.

I think we will try to link Agartala by ourselves instead of trying to travel in shitty Dhaka place where planes land which is being called an airport by your government. Even cargo loading regions of other countries including India will be much better.

 

[fallstuff]

Airports have military usage, this issue needs to be thought through. It is not like building a road or market.
Europe has EU Visa free travel agreements, this is not the case here.

 

[Aryan0395]

The point was that they do not need to spend money expanding the airport when they can hop over the border

Yeah as if they don't need to apply for Visa!
Im sure Indians wouldn't wanna enter illegally to catch a flight, which "hop on" suggests.

drive forty or so miles

Its 140km away from Dhaka.

Just to have bragging rights for a regional airport which serves minimal number of passengers once or twice a week is pointless.

considering all this im sure Indians would prefer to take a flight from Agartala to calcutta or Guwahati and then move ahead to their final destination if there is no direct connectivity.
There are only 3 international airports in Bangladesh otoh there are 20 in India which includes airports of our tier 3 cities. I can understand why Bangladeshi considers international connectivity from regional airport a bragging point.

 

[Bilal9]

The distance from Agartala to Dhaka is 130km. In SA standards, it will take 3.5 hours atleast in a 4 lane highway. And another 2 hours in the famous 7km/hr Dhaka traffic. As someone pointed out, it was WW2 era airport. Not built right now. BD can lease some land to India for a price. or let a BD private company buy land and let them lease to the Airport company.

I think we will try to link Agartala by ourselves instead of trying to travel in shitty Dhaka place where planes land which is being called an airport by your government. Even cargo loading regions of other countries including India will be much better.

Ha ha ha 'SA standards'. Stop spreading lies. Comilla (right next to Agartala) is reachable in 90 minutes from Dhaka. And this is when the four lane highway is under renovation. This is not your India. NEXT!!

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From Dhaka to Comilla in just 90 minutes
Masud Alam, Comilla

• Published at 09:54 pm May 26th, 2019

Vehicles crosses Meghna-Gumti bridge without any traffic congestion on Sunday, May 26, 2019 Dhaka Tribune

Previously, it took eight to 10 hours to reach Dhaka from Comilla

Traffic congestion on the Dhaka-Comilla highway seems to have vanished like magic and commuters are now able to travel on the route in just one and a half hours. All thanks to the newly inaugurated Meghna-Gumti bridge.

While visiting different spots on the country's busiest highway, no traffic gridlock was seen at any place, though a different scenario existed on the highway, even a day before the bridge was inaugurated on Saturday at Comilla’s Daudkandi by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

While talking to Dhaka Tribune, Mizanur Rahman, a Comilla-based businessman, said he reached Dhaka's Jatrabari area on Sunday morning within one and a half hours, after starting for the capital with his family for Eid shopping in their private car.

"But a week ago, there was a different scenario on the highway," he said.

A painful traffic congestion used to prevail on both sides of the highway due to the sorry state of the existing bridges on the Meghna and Gumti rivers, he said.

At the same time, the second bridge on the Meghna river in Gazaria of Munshiganj was also opened to traffic, while two old bridges on the Gumti and Meghna were temporarily closed for renovation.

The distance from Comilla to Dhaka is around 97 kilometres. Several drivers said it would now take a maximum of two hours to travel on the route. And vehicles need not wait for long at the toll plazas of the bridges.

"So many thanks to the authorities, as we don't need to wait for long," one of the drivers said.

Previously, it took eight to 10 hours to reach Dhaka from Comilla, they said. "If there is no traffic jam, it should not take more than two hours. This will be a relief to passengers."

The second Meghna-Gumti bridge project engineer, Sheikh Sharifuzzaman, said: "These are the first steel structure bridges in the country, and the Gumti Bridge is bigger than the other one."

He said the construction work of the new 930-metre Meghna and 1,410-metre Gumti bridges was completed at a cost of Tk1,750 crore and Tk1,950 crore, respectively.

The Japanese firms were scheduled to complete the projects by June 2019, as per the contract. The government extended the deadline by six months to December 2019 after construction was halted for four months due to the Holey Artisan Bakery attack in July 2016.

Md Tazul Islam, general secretary of Comilla Bus Owners’ Association, said that traffic often crawled to a halt at the approaches to the old bridges. "Now, there is no chance of that," he added.
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There are only 3 international airports in Bangladesh otoh there are 20 in India which includes airports of our tier 3 cities. I can understand why Bangladeshi considers international connectivity from regional airport a bragging point.

Your recent bragging only came about after Americans started getting sick of your whining/begging for H1B jobs. Even then most H1B's are lying cheats. So now you can afford a few decent airports.

Dhaka Airport had boarding bridges ten years ahead of Delhi - don't want to talk about the rest of your garbage airports.

 

[dray / Rain Man]

If they do it, then we will be pleased, that itself is a huge boon for them, what more Bangladeshis can ask for!

 

[Aryan0395]

Your recent bragging only came about after Americans started getting sick of your whining/begging for H1B jobs. Even then most H1B's are lying cheats. So now you can afford a few decent airports.

Dhaka Airport had boarding bridges ten years ahead of Delhi - don't want to talk about the rest of your garbage airports.

Man you have some problems.
anyways here are some images of rest of the airports (not delhi), lets see if any bangla airport is anything like them:-
Here is Mumbai-

Here is Banglore- (and no its not artistic rendition)

Here is Kolkata:-

Hyderabad:-

Chennai:-

Pune:-

And here is your Dhaka airport:-

Here is a pic of Terminal 1 as well:-

Nope, is no better than terminal 2

Pune looks to be the least impressive of all tier 1 city airports in India and yet it looks much better than airport of capital city of Bangladesh!

Here are some tier 2 city airports in India:-

Dehradun-

Surat:-

I can go on, but as you can see even some tier 2 city airports are better than Dhaka.
Dhaka will be better than only airports which handle much fewer flights than it and are mainly used to connect to other major airports and even then some of might match Dhaka.
But again we are talking about airport of a capital city and regional ones.
No, Dhaka aint good, its not even comparable.

 

[bluesky]

If they do it, then we will be pleased, that itself is a huge boon for them, what more Bangladeshis can ask for!

Who wants to please the Indians and that is by giving them land which Bd has short supply? Why do not you just expand your Bombay airport and ask the Tripura passengers to take flight from there? Not so far, only 3,000 km away.

 

[dray / Rain Man]

Who wants to please the Indians and that is by giving them land which Bd has short supply? Why do not you just expand your Bombay airport and ask the Tripura passengers to take flight from there? Not so far, only 3,000 km away.

If we feel like, then we can extend the Kolkata airport runway to Agartala also, our wish.

 

[Nilgiri]

Who wants to please the Indians and that is by giving them land which Bd has short supply? Why do not you just expand your Bombay airport and ask the Tripura passengers to take flight from there? Not so far, only 3,000 km away.

You forgot to add STUPID WEST BENGAL GHATIA.

And now you bring up scarce land issue....but it didnt apply suddenly to iron ore fantasy mine (btw any updates on that....or it went the way of walton exports too?)

 

[Bilal9]

Man you have some problems.
anyways here are some images of rest of the airports (not delhi), lets see if any bangla airport is anything like them:-
Here is Mumbai-

Here is Banglore- (and no its not artistic rendition)

Here is Kolkata:-

Hyderabad:-

Chennai:-

Pune:-

And here is your Dhaka airport:-

Here is a pic of Terminal 1 as well:-

Nope, is no better than terminal 2

Pune looks to be the least impressive of all tier 1 city airports in India and yet it looks much better than airport of capital city of Bangladesh!

Here are some tier 2 city airports in India:-

Dehradun-

Surat:-

I can go on, but as you can see even some tier 2 city airports are better than Dhaka.
Dhaka will be better than only airports which handle much fewer flights than it and are mainly used to connect to other major airports and even then some of might match Dhaka.
But again we are talking about airport of a capital city and regional ones.
No, Dhaka aint good, its not even comparable.

Typical Indian cheatery, showing only one side of the airports, but you forgot to show the other side. Like for Mumbai airport. Yes let me present to you Dharavi slums, the worst cesspit of human existence that can only exist in India....so bad you can smell it right when the aircraft doors open. Hits you like a ton of bricks and lets you know, yes you've arrived in Mumbai...

Lovely Blue tarp housing next to Chhatrapati Int'l in Mumbai (whose brochure pictures you posted above)....

there are lakes in there too...is the water drinkable?

This is near Sahar Mumbai airport

No bathrooms in the slum, therefore open defecation right next to the runway.

No - in Bangladesh we haven't spent billions borrowed from banks to build these airports, yet. But we won't have world's largest slums to boast about either, like India....or open defecation rates around 2/3 of the population (67%). Instead of showing glossy images of airports, solve these problems in your cities first.

 

[Nilgiri]

The ugly failed beggar hiding from ICE, earning less than haitians do in his squalor dump in some caliturdia tent city can only spout fake numbers:

https://www.unicef.org/reports/annual-report-2018

https://data.unicef.org/topic/water-and-sanitation/sanitation/

This is 2017 too btw, 2019 given the progress rate....it will be 0 as targeted.

Far more believable than the BBS (BanglaBS) stats from 3 million waaaaah country.

Here is footage of this tent-city refugee as a kid...back in his source slum (around 1 minute mark):

There is a reason why these characters earn worse than haitians in the US....and thus rely on fake emotional numbers.