User:Bingobro/Indian Airports

For quite sometime, users have been adding "international" in the leads of many Indian airport articles. In most (not all) cases the change is either unnecessary or simply wrong. I believe we should have some sort of criteria/guideline for Indian airport titles.


 * The criteria/guideline for having "international" in the tile could be-


 * 1) The title should be the WP:COMMONNAME backed up by Multiple reliable sources (newspapers/magazines) stating that an airport has been "upgraded" to international status. Press releases from authorities and databases (Flight Global, AAI, ch-aviation, CAPA are reliable) and should do as well.
 * 2) The airport should have scheduled ("international") commercial passenger service (not air-bubble, charters or pilgrimage flights). This can be verified by reliable news outlets (Hindustan Times, The Hindu, The Economic Times etc.) and databases like ch-aviation and routes-online.  Sources from an airline can be used to verify a routes existence but not the name of an airport.
 * 3) In the absence of certain sources/apart from these, there should be clear consensus among editors to move a page to the new title, probably through an RM discussion.
 * 4) Travel sites, blogs and even the DGCA schedules are not reliable (DGCA schedules change frequently without notice and aren't updated until October for winter and March for summer, also airlines file schedules for certain routes which are never actually served).


 * For new airports


 * 1) There should be multiple reliable sources (newspapers/magazines) stating that the airport being built is going to have "international" standards (a long runway?, customs? immigration?).
 * 2) Press releases from authorities and databases (AAI, ch-aviation, CAPA) should confirm the airports development to  "international" standards in a single phase and not "will be expanded once traffic increases".
 * 3) If an airport is clearly going to replace/compliment an existing large international airport. Much like Navi-Mumbai and Mumbai, Noida and Delhi or BLR and HAL (2008).

This is obviously not a policy, these are just my thoughts on how to address the issue. Feel free to expand or comment on it.