Thursday, July 24, 2014

Airport Loos Too Stinky for Second Best

Chennai: It’s not so much of a burning issue as it is a smelly one. After over a year of constantly complaining that the toilets in the newly constructed domestic and international terminals are in a ‘torrid, dirty state’, air passengers are shocked as the results of the Airports Council International’s airport quality survey were announced recently — Chennai’s airport with a rating of 4.3/5 was the second highest rated airport operated by the Airports Authority of India (AAI). “This is shocking. I have sent at least three complaints to the airport managers as well as online about toilets not being cleaned at the Chennai airport and now they’re called the second best in the country?” queries Aashna B S, a frequent flier who shuttles between Mumbai and Chennai for her work in the fashion industry.
What’s the major complaint with our airport loos? The stink that pervades the air like an aura around each toilet zone. Recently, musician and composer Raghu Dixit was returning from Colombo and had stopped in transit at Chennai. His reaction as he decided to relieve himself was available for all and sundry to see on twitter, “A brand new building doesn’t make an international airport Chennai! You need to keep it clean and the toilet stink-free,” and then added two painful hashtags to enforce his sensory pain — #backtowhereitwas and #stinkypoo.
24/07/14 Daniel Thimmayya/New Indian Express
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