I had the opportunity to land at the shamshabad airport on the very second day. My experience was wonderful. I was out of the airport in just 25 min.

Rajiv Gandhi International Airport also being called/known as Shamshabad Airport

The below video is the Domestic airport just before entering the Security Check.

My immigration and customs took 5 min. Baggae i got it in just 10 min. I just walked out of the air port and it was quick.

Look & Feel

I would compare it with SFO air port w.r.t to the top view. Interior is some what similar to San Francisco airport, the high ceiling and the design. There are around 12 Boarding Bridges, one of the beauty worth mentioning is that it is Made of GLASS. ( I actually heard from a passenger discussing it ).

Here are some of the pictures

Some of the high lights real quick

Food & Shopping

There are lot of outlets present where one can shop. There are lot coming up. Lot of Food courts to eat out. There are lot of coffee shops also. it was costing around Rs 50.00I read in the papers saying the coffee was expensive compared to the old air port which was available for Rs 10.00Here are couple of them. I did not go, but there is a place where you can have casual drink, could not take a picture, if any of you go there place take a picture.

– I had a quick lunch at the above place the food was “Oaky” not too good. It was a buffet 200.00 for Veg and 250 for non Veg.

- There are lot of small terminals present where you can give feedback to the GMR
For those who don’t know what is GMR, it is the company which built the Air port

- The international and domestic airport are the same. Just that they have different enternaces
FYI : THe first entrance is for domestic and the second one is for International

Commute to & from Air Port

The air port is situated about 22 KM from Hyderabad. When there was no traffic it took me 45 min to reach the air port from Hyderabad city. When there is traffic it would take more time. There is a FlyOVer which is still being Constructed which connects to Hyderabad City and the airport, i guess it would be easier once this is completed. There is lot of public transport also available. hyderabad.aero buses, and. Also there Hertz and Budget car rentals if you wish to rent a car.

- Very few or i should say Only ONE PHONE booth to make Phone calls.

- There are more terminals to provide feed back than the number of phone booths.

- Over all the air port GREAT.