No matter how early or late you get arriving at the airport, there's bound to be extra long queue s everywhere. The check-in luggage scanning guys take their jobs extremely seriously- they sip coffee, gossip, manage to put those stickers on your bags AND keep changing, what I can only call shifts, every 3 minutes. So, at any given time, there's only 1 person working- half a person at the comp screen and the other half at the taping and locking end.
It's best not to take notice of the delay these guys cause or the over excited kids that crowd around getting onto not only your trolley but also refusing to get off it so that you can proceed.
There's hardly any point in looking for a check in counter which is not crowded. Every other person seems to be carrying a massive amount of luggage, adorable kids and mouths that don't shut. While every other counter, irrespective of the counter these days, carries an extremely irratating dimwit who will take a minimum of 15 mins per person- and that is if you have only one piece of check in luggage- so much so that I was still in the queue awaiting my turn at 5:45 for a 6:10 flight. And that's not even the best part- the person behind me was on the 5:45 flight.
Again, it's best to not let things get to you and enjoy the atmosphere. What can only be seen as the cherry on the cake is the person who cuts across the line and waves his ticket at the dimwit sitting behind the counter exclaiming that he was on the 6:30 flight.
If after all this, you're flying anything other than Jet or Kingfisher, I feel sorry for you. Those pleasant pleasan air hostesses who only take about 10 min to get you a drink of water, seats that don't recline, and great food!
That aside, if you're lucky, most of the air buses have been up graded and have touch screen video s, with a wide selection of viewing material, not to mention the in flight movie selections they provide you with. THAT only can make a 2 hr 40 min flight, which is already delayed by an hour, and waits another half an hour- because some VIP was flying in, to take off, bearable. (Wow, that's a long sentence.)
I'd sound more angry or sarcastic, only I've lost the will to fight.
All my love.
hmm...not a particularly harrowing experience...but if you say so...
me likes train journeys for the same reason.
been a while, aint it?
The thing I hate abt airlines the most, is when they're not punctual...
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:) guess who decided to write after a heck of a long time?!?!?!?
@nav: Nope, it wasn't. Like I was saying, I've lost the will to live!!!
@anna: They give a whole new definition to not being punctual.
Thanks for dropping by you guys,
All my love/
oh trust me jet airways food sucks. i mean, i think what spices are, forget the fact that india is famous for them. so the entire meal is a sweetdish. and the real sweetdish is this amazing browny, only to be floating in goooey yellow custard
i meant, i think they FORGOT what spices are
**sheepish smile**
i've been travelling so much these days that i don't really care about what the airports are like and what the planes are like...
delays are not something i have had but security checks! hell yeah!! a brown man in america who hasn't shaved for a week! ohh yeah that's one helluva reason for them to pull me over and give me a body massage!
nice template but i've seen so much snow in the last one month, i kinda hate it!! and is there a way we can turn the music off on your blog? or do we have to listen to it when reading? :p
Sounds like fun. But airports can never even compare with government offices. Those are the best. There are so many queues that you don't know which one to stand in, and when you've finally waited in one for an hour and reach the counter, you are told that you should have first gone around back and got some stamp at another counter before coming to this one.
And of course, they will give you just one hour on a weekday morning to do all this. Whee.
Kaushik
@sis: Oh yeah! I got that too- I think it was a banana cake with custard. It sucked.
@Ay: Hey! You're alive and you still visit! These americans are full of white crap.
And tooo bad, the snow AND the music stays. Afraid it'll cheer you up?
@Koze: Passport office?
Thanks for dropping by you guys,
All my love.
Yes, you got to be high on the humour quotient if your flying the Indian skies. Our airlines have a long way to go before meeting international standards of comfort. But then, if you travel cheap, you have to 'adjust' Like the air hostess, sweetly giving you a bottle of packaged water and then saying, Rs.10 sir. I have had experiences flying and it's fun, except for the unexpected delays.