Mumbai: The world-class T2 seems to be giving international fliers a quintessentially third-world experience. For, a hive of mosquito bites are the stinging souvenirs they carry on their bodies back home.
Passengers and visitors at Terminal 2 of the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport (CSIA) complain of the bloody inconvenience due to mosquitoes, especially during night hours when most of the international flights operate.
Frequent travellers and airport staff say the problem has been bugging the shiny, swanky terminal, thrown open a year ago, for a long time, going back to even before its construction. So much so that mosquitoes are the memory that international passengers carry of Mumbai's airport, sources from tourism industry say.
This is hardly a surprise considering the mounting piles of garbage that dot the slums surrounding the airport, in addition to construction debris.
“I was at T2 with my son recently to pick one of our relatives arriving from overseas. However, the mosquito attacks made our wait hell all through,” says Sudhanshu Sinha, a Peddar Road resident. “When I approached an airport staffer, he said he was helpless in such a situation,” Sinha told us.
15/02/15 Shahkar Abidi/Daily News & Analysis
Passengers and visitors at Terminal 2 of the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport (CSIA) complain of the bloody inconvenience due to mosquitoes, especially during night hours when most of the international flights operate.
Frequent travellers and airport staff say the problem has been bugging the shiny, swanky terminal, thrown open a year ago, for a long time, going back to even before its construction. So much so that mosquitoes are the memory that international passengers carry of Mumbai's airport, sources from tourism industry say.
This is hardly a surprise considering the mounting piles of garbage that dot the slums surrounding the airport, in addition to construction debris.
“I was at T2 with my son recently to pick one of our relatives arriving from overseas. However, the mosquito attacks made our wait hell all through,” says Sudhanshu Sinha, a Peddar Road resident. “When I approached an airport staffer, he said he was helpless in such a situation,” Sinha told us.
15/02/15 Shahkar Abidi/Daily News & Analysis
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