{"id":370583,"date":"2020-08-29T09:05:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-29T03:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=370583"},"modified":"2020-08-29T09:42:03","modified_gmt":"2020-08-29T04:12:03","slug":"pushing-for-a-second-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/pushing-for-a-second-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"Pushing for a second airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is Bengaluru ready for a second commercial airport? For years, the old HAL Airport has remained shut for civilian operations, as dictated by an agreement with the Bangalore International Airport Limited (BIAL). This deal is still in force, but a new proposal for an entirely new airport has sparked a debate.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing big has changed in the city\u2019s aviation map, not in the immediate past. Despite the pandemic-triggered hiccup, Kempegowda International Airport (KIA)\u2019s second terminal work is well on course, and its second runway is now operational. Why then did the Bangalore Chambers of Industry and Commerce (BCIC) propose a new greenfield airport, and why now?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is Bengaluru ready for a second commercial airport? For years, the old HAL Airport has remained shut for civilian operations, as dictated by an agreement with the Bangalore International Airport Limited (BIAL). This deal is still in force, but a new proposal for an entirely new airport has sparked a debate. Nothing big has changed in the city\u2019s aviation map, not in the immediate past. Despite the pandemic-triggered hiccup, Kempegowda International Airport (KIA)\u2019s second terminal work is well on course, and its second runway is now operational. Why then did the Bangalore Chambers of Industry and Commerce (BCIC) propose a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[176,146,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-370583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}