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2023 → Indian airports will make $3.9 billion 💰 Adani is the front runner in buying airports 🤯 

Here's how the airport economy works ⬇️

The Indian airport's story ✨

It all started with privatizing Cochin airport (1999), followed by Hyderabad (2002), Bengaluru (2004), Delhi & Mumbai (2006).

But, why the move in last 20 years? 💭

According to the government, selling airports is generating short term cash for Airport Authority of India (AAI) & will be used to develop better Aviation infrastructure in India. I'm going to take a pause here - I think you understand what's cooking ;)

How did Airports become so cash-rich? 💸

Airports are micro-monopolies approved by the government. Within the perimeter of airports, the private operating companies lay the laws of commerce.

1/ Flight arrivals & parking 🛬

Bangalore airport is paid Rs.839 per international passenger & Rs.184 for domestic passenger. This is part of passengers' final ticket price. Larger planes (A320) have to pay as much as 1L/day for a day of parking. This is the major revenue source for airports.

2/ Airport bridges 🚌

Observed how domestic airlines almost never use the airport bridges to deplane passengers? Cause it costs exponentially higher than using a ramp. Now you know why we waste time with those ramps.

3/ Terminal revenue 🍔

Restaurants & retail shops pay a fixed rent to use the commercial space. Plus, few lease agreements involve revenue sharing with the airport on every good sold. Airports invented their own tax model ;)

4/ Parking & cab operating rights 💰

This is straight forward revenue from vehicles coming into the airport area & parking for short/long duration. Plus, Airports sell rights to cab aggregators (OLA, Uber, Meru).

5/ Are all 4 sources equal? 🧩

Absolutely not - Delhi Airport generates 36% of its total income from non-aeronautical source. Bigger the airport, higher will be this share.

What's next for airports? 💙

India's domestic air passenger traffic grew by 74% year over year if you compare last few months. Indian airlines are carrying peak 2.4 crore monthly passengers.

Airports = big cash flywheel 🎡

More passengers → More flights → Bigger airports → More retail space → more revenue → money to build more airports. That's all for now.  Today morning, I had a seamless experience at Bangalore International Airport Ltd through DigiYatra, a Biometric enabled entry system (Aadhar verified). From entry to gate in less than 5 minutes though there was moderate rush.

If you are a frequent traveler, I strongly encourage you to use DigiYatra. It is currently available in Bengaluru, Delhi, Varanasi, Hyderabad, Kolkatta and couple of other airports. Though there were hiccups in the initial registration (e.g. first name and last name in Aadhar and tickets should be exactly the same), the entry process is quite seamless. There are enough help available at the DigiYatra counters to make your experience better.

DigiYatra, which is based on facial verification technology, is now available for passengers taking domestic flights at BLRAirport. It is our constant endeavor at Bangalore International Airport Ltd to offer innovative ways to simplify the passenger journey and make it as seamless as possible.

We were an important part of the first phase rollout of Digi Yatra Central Ecosystem (DYCE) which was successfully launched on August 15th this year. The current version of the App is available on both Android and ioS platforms. 

DigiYatra Is aimed at offering a seamless, hassle-free and health-risk-free process for air travelers across airports in India. DYCE is being built on the standards defined by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) which include Self Sovereign Identity (SSI) with Verifiable Credentials (VCs), Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) with a trust layer of a Distributed Ledger and ensuring adoption of Privacy by Design and Privacy by Default as the fundamental tenets. This ensures privacy issues are taken care of and passengers will not have to worry about sharing their data as it is secure and will be deleted after 24 hours following their travel.

DYCE is the initiative of the Digi Yatra Foundation (DYF) which was set up as a joint venture company in 2019, and BIAL is one of the key shareholders. The Digi Yatra Foundation will be a pan-India entity and the custodian of the Passenger ID validation process. 

It has taken 5 years of persistence, patience and perseverance to make this radical transformation happen. Following an agile methodology, many more interesting and impactful features are planned in the next few months. This is just the beginning of an exciting digital transformation journey in air travel! 

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Facebook Photo Uploader

Technology has made a huge difference in human life.We are judged and analysed by our social profile which includes not only the intellectual factors but a constant knowledge of upcoming technological aspects and new gadgets launched to make life easy and efficient.

The integration of mobile apps and social networking sites is becoming a trend these days. Modern software development practices take into account the need to sync content with sites like Facebook due to their wide reach and popularity. There are many online soft wares and apps available to make a proper sync of your photo albums to various social and bookmarking sites including facebook,twitter,linked in,stumble upon,tumbler etc.

By making a proper use of Cloud Cam v2.0 you can now take and upload photos and videos directly to Google Drive or Drop box.SocialAuth Android is an easy to use open source SDK that allows integration with Facebook and provides simple code to access its various functionalities along with free support. 

SDKs available now-a-days help you to integrate other social networks in your Android App along with Facebook.By using this SDK,we can easily connect with Facebook and share status updates.  Users can easily view profiles, contacts, photo albums and feeds. 

The SDK also enables you to upload images to your Facebook profile in a breeze.In order to start using Photo Sync, you'll need to manually enable all the photo uploading options.To enable Photo Sync,you need to launch the Facebook app and view the side menu. Later on,Scroll down and tap on Photos. At the bottom of the screen customized photos of you and your family will appear aong with a new Sync tab. If the Sync tab is present, you're account is ready to go.You can access those photos and make them secure by protecting their security by changing security options.

Notice how many times the word "private" is used now-a-days.Everyone is concerned about their privacy. You need to take special care when it comes to security aspects.It is one of the baffling problems in Internet marketing and e-commerce optimization now-a-days.

Tap on Sync Photos if you'd like to enable Photo Sync and you will be able to access all your private photos and data shared among the secure platform.Your photos will then begin uploading a new private album in your Facebook Account. Going forward, any new photo taken will automatically upload without the need for you to launch the Facebook app, even on your IPHONE. You don't need to worry about any further processing as it is always done in background as an application and real-time operating features.

Operating Systems have their own significance and help to make various amendments and mobile operating platforms follow the same features using same key values.When you view your photos from the Web site, you can decide which photos to share by making them public, or which to delete or make further amendments into them.

When you view the Sync tab in either app, you can see a Settings icon. Tapping it will let you limit photo uploads to Wi-Fi and CELLULAR, Wi-Fi only, or disable to feature altogether. As you can see, you get a total of 2 GB worth of space to store uploaded photos.

With the feature having been in testing for awhile now, you won't need to update the Facebook app in order for it to show up.This is how you will easily be able to sync and upload facebook photos using your Android application or Mobile gadgets.

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