In the course of the PILs in the High Court, advocates for the petitioners argued that the old airport needs to be kept open since the new airport, built for an air traffic capacity of 11 million passengers per annum, will open to passenger traffic of 13 million per annum — the figure projected for 2015. The decision to close the old airport “if implemented, will cause grave injustice to the residents of Bangalore, who will be constrained to commute for two to three hours on congested and deteriorating roads to the new airport, undermining the very purpose of air travel,” the Bangalore City Connect Trust stated in one of the PILs.
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