[governance] Hyderabad and travel to India -- good experience
Anriette Esterhuysen
anriette at apc.org
Sat Nov 29 15:13:55 EST 2008
Dear Michael
I am also traveling through Mumbai on SAA, tomorrow (Sunday) and will
actually check into a hotel near the airport until the early morning
connection to Hyderabad.
I really think our only concern should be for probable delays as a
result of increased security.
And the flight is bound to be fairly comfortable. I was told today that
tomorrow's flight is quite empty :)
See you all soon.
Anriette
On Sat, 2008-11-29 at 21:49 +0200, Michael Gurstein wrote:
> 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.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
> > > www.ianpeter.com
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Norbert Klein
> > > > [mailto:nhklein at gmx.net]
> > > > Sent: 28 November 2008 12:50
> > To:
> > 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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