This refers to the report "Budget airports may transport you to an era long lost" (August 13). Private airlines that started promisingly had to shut shop due to high rentals at airports and unaffordable cost of operations. The exorbitant costs of using sophisticated technology, fuel consumption and security arrangements at airports have increased expenditure, reduced their income and profits. These are the days of speedier connectivity, with fewer obstacles in movement at reduced costs. Higher maintenance costs of facilities at airports require capital investment, which are then compensated by airlines by increasing air fare. Passengers thus travel out of sheer necessity or when the fares are affordable. A budget airport does not require such high costs of maintenance since the movement of passengers will be more businesslike and continuous like the railways. It only needs to ensure proper and quality maintenance of the basic facilities. Budget airports will save time and ensure speedy connectivity between smaller towns at much more affordable rates. They will ultimately ensure simplicity in functioning and increase operational efficiency.
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