In my latest Southern sojourn, I spent a good couple of hours at Chennai and I couldn't help but marvel at the major improvement the Chennai airport has seen. In between the Plane Spotting, I roamed around the terminal and did find it quite nice...
The new terminal is dazzlingly bright and inviting, and not a dingy relic of the socialist era....
The Chennai Metro will connect the airport to the city centre in a few years....
Certainly not like the art wall at Mumbai's T2, but it does give the traveller a sense of Chennai's fishing traditions...
Spacious and open....
Not once did I feel it was crowded
The sun sets....
And passengers wait for their flights, killing time talking, reading or sleeping....
And some end up shopping...
The Ramraj Cottons outlet seems to be quite popular here...
And they had quite a few lessons of life to give...
The new terminal at Chennai is just right - good mix of retail outlets, eateries and seating spaces - it doesn't have the expanse of Delhi, nor does it look like a shopping mall (Hyderabad) nor like a polished bus-stand (Bangalore)...
And I hereby declare Maggi the national food of India - from the highlands of Ladakh to seashores of Tamil Nadu, one voice will unite the country - bas 2 minute!
Once again, I had to fly on lousy IndiGo....
To add salt to the injury, they were annoyingly late...
So much for their claims of efficiency and punctuality...
Seriously, if you ask me, they are highly overrated....
As were taxiing, I spotted this Oman Air Boeing 737 that came in from Muscat....
Chennai would do well to target longhaul carriers as well...
The view of the terminal from the airside...
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