Experience the pain

Air India flights to the newly-built Bangalore airport usually land on the third runway. Recently, however, a flight carrying Planning Commission Deputy Chairperson Montek Singh Ahluwalia, a media baron and a host of other VIPs landed on the first runway which is close to the airport’s terminal building. While many were happy, a Congress general secretary and Rajya Sabha MP told co-passengers, “The flight should have landed on its usual runway. Then Ahluwalia, who is closely associated with the process of making greenfield airports in this country, would have understood the plight of passengers — the flight takes almost 20 minutes after landing to reach the terminal building.”