since November 1st i stayed at Varanasi due to my posting as Aircraft Engineer and most of my time spent on the Varanasi Airport.
The old city of Varanasi is 30 Km from the Airport Though Airport is started somewhere in 1960 but development is still awaited.
One can still see the old houses and the road condition is really very bad.Electricity supply is only few hours in the day time like anyother northern city of India.
Airport is connected to Delhi,Lucknow,Khajuraho,Bombay,bangkok and Kathmandu in Nepal.Thai Airlines has a daily service to Varanasi.Air India Flights connect Varanasi from Lucknow,khajuraho,Bombay,delhi and kathmandu.Jet Airways,kingfisher and Spicejet also touches Varanasi with a Daily flights.Recently Jet Airways is flying Bangkok twice in a week.
One can see a huge inflow of foreign passenger to Varanasi as it is a pilgrimage place for Budha and Hindus.
Sarnath is a place approximately 30 Km from airport where one can see many Bodh temples where as a famous temple of Vishwanath Lord Shiv is 40 kms from here at the bank of Ganga.
New Airport terminal buiding is under construction and expected to be ready by March 2010.Opening of the new terminal will share the the load of the old terminal building which is unable to carry the load of transit passengers.
