[governance] Hyderabad and travel to India -- good experience

Sat Nov 29 14:49:48 EST 2008

Thanks to everyone for their advice and suggestions...

As it happens, I'm travelling from South Africa with SAA which only flies to
Mumbai and which is keeping (at least at the moment) its flights to and from
there (even though their flight crew was stuck under seige in the Oberroi
for two days.

So I'll be passing through Mumbai airport and as I've said to my wife,
Mumbai airport will probably be one of the safest places in the world for
the next few days (uncomfortable but safe... (my wife and I were in NYC
during 9.11 and she will understand...

MG

-----Original Message-----
From: George Sadowsky [mailto:george.sadowsky at gmail.com] 
Sent: November-29-08 5:14 AM
To: governance at lists.cpsr.org; Michael Gurstein
Subject: RE: [governance] Hyderabad and travel to India -- good experience

Michael,

I was going to do that Tuesday morning, 24 hours before you, but Lufthansa
cancelled their flight from Frankfurt to Mumbai.  At no charge they changed
my reservation to one through Bangalore, including booking the last leg on a
domestic airline to Hyderabad.

The international terminal and the domestic terminals in Mumbai are
separated by a distance of 1-2 miles.  I think that you have to go outside
the airport building and around the airport to the other side.  Check it
with Google Earth.

I'd rebook through another city if it is easy to do.

George

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I'm scheduled to transfer via Mumbai from an international to a domestic
flight very early on Wednesday morning.

Any advice would be welcome.

MG

-----Original Message-----
From: Sivasubramanian Muthusamy [mailto:isolatedn at gmail.com]
Sent: November-28-08 4:32 PM
To: governance at lists.cpsr.org
Cc: Ian Peter; Norbert Klein; katitza at datos-personales.org; Adam Peake
Subject: Re: [governance] Hyderabad and travel to India -- good experience

Hello All,

Any one who wants to avoid Bombay have several options:  1) fly direct into
hyderabad if there is a direct flight or 2) fly to any of the cities -
Chennai (Madras), Bangalore or Delhi (New Delhi) which are all cities well
connected by air to Hyderabad.

The domestic and international terminals in Chennai and Bangalore are NOT in
separate locations. In Delhi they are in separate locations, but transfers
are usually taken care of the by the airlines, there are courtesy coaches,
and even if it is not included, it is not a problem at all finding free or
paid transportation at $ 5 - $ 10

<http://www.bengaluruairport.com/portal/page/portal/BIAL_PageGroup/BIAL_ARR_
HOME>
http://www.bengaluruairport.com/portal/page/portal/BIAL_PageGroup/BIAL_ARR_H
OME
http://www.chennaiairport.com/
http://www.newdelhiairport.in/

Delhi Transfer Info

http://www.aai.aero/igi/transport_facilities.jsp

The experiences shared by Adam Peake, Ian Peter and Katiza should encourage
all to attend the IGF at Hyderabad, and I have no hesitation in saying that
it would be a normal experience in any city other than Mumbai and that those
traveling to Hyderabad will be secure in Hyderabad and shall have a good
experience.

Welcome to the IGF.

Sivasubramanian Muthusamy

On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 11:10 AM, Guru <guru at itforchange.net> wrote:

Bangalore international and domestic airports are in the same building and
you can transit Bangalore to Hyderabad

there are many other cities too which are connected to hyderabad - Chennai,
Kochi,  Calcutta (apart from Delhi /Mumbai) which are  around an hour away
from hyderabad.

Mumbai airport is in the northern part of the city and the shootings
happened in the southern tip (CBD). so perhaps the airport may get into
normal mode

but security everywhere will be very strong ...

Guru

Ian Peter wrote:

I do hope most of us can make it and there aren't too many cancellations.
Just this morning I was able to secure an alternative route via Singapore to
avoid Mumbai.

I did have some trouble finding available Hyderabad tickets that didn't fly
via Mumbai that were suitable - but an alternative seems to be to fly in via
Bangalore and then do a short domestic leg (I understand at Bangalore
domestic and international terminal are in one building) Our Indian
colleagues might have some comments on that and whether it raises any
particular problems.

Ian Peter
PO Box 429
Bangalow NSW 2479
Australia
Tel (+614) 1966 7772 or (+612) 6687 0773
 <http://www.ianpeter.com> www.ianpeter.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Norbert Klein [ <mailto:nhklein at gmx.net> mailto:nhklein at gmx.net]
Sent: 28 November 2008 12:50

To:  <mailto:governance at lists.cpsr.org> governance at lists.cpsr.org; Adam
Peake
Subject: Re: [governance] Hyderabad and travel to India -- good experience

Thanks, Adam, for your personal observations, and for sharing Markus's
note. I
want to comment only on one point below.

On Friday, 28 November 2008 13:10:04 Adam Peake wrote:

At 1:59 PM +0100 11/27/08, Markus KUMMER wrote:

Dear colleagues,

each participant will have to decide
by himself or herself.

Not only - both airports in Bangkok are still under siege and closed, and
it
is not sure if they will be open by Monday morning.

Via Bangkok is the only route I could take...

So if I don't show up, that is the reason,

Norbert

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