That's the day when I took a one day trip to Mumbai with Naresh Jain (who organized the meeting) to speak at the Agile Software Community, Mumbai Chapter.
I have to say, for the first day of operation, I was very impressed (though I am sure there was quite a bit of pain for several travelers). Yes, my flight both ways was delayed by a couple of hours, but, hey, when was my flight not delayed?
When Naresh, his colleagues, and I got to the airport, we had an interesting experience at the automated check-in system (I will blog about this separately next). So we stood in lines to get our boarding pass.
After a delay we found that the porters had not showed up to move the bags. Naresh quickly realized we had no bags to checkin. So, he moved up to the front of the line and asked them to complete our checkin first. So, the two of us were the first to get the boarding pass:
Then we entered through the security into the large, modern terminal. The airport is huge and they have done a great job with the facilities.
We had a nice breakfast in the "Time Out" food court. The flight delay gave us a good opportunity to rant about software development and testing.
Overall, I am impressed at the new airport and was thrilled to be part of the first day of operations.
I will have an opportunity to see how the airport is at the end of the first week of operations, as I fly out of Bangalore on Friday.
