One Painful Air Journey

One of the hazards of travelling alone in a flight is that if the flight gets delayed, YOU ARE SCREWED!! If you happen to be flying from Mumbai, be absolutely sure to book a flight at around 3 in the night and if you are lucky, you might be able to avoid “TRAFFIC CONGESTION”.

I don’t understand how we can have traffic congestion at airports. Don’t the airports have the same number of flights coming in and going out on a particular day? If yes, then how the traffic congestion? For some unfathomable reason, The Mumbai airport seems to be functioning with only one runway. I mean, it’s supposed to be one of busiest in India and it has only 1 runway? Way to go to becoming a superpower on time (as the tag line goes for one of the stupid airlines). Actually the Mumbai airport has 2 runways but one of them has been “UNDER MAINTAINCE” for like, forever! How can a airport which sees so much density of air traffic have one of its runways not functioning on a Friday when so many people are flying out!

This is the 2nd time that this has happened to me. I waited at the airport for an extra hour and another hour and an half inside the aircraft just waiting for it to take-off! If this won’t get you pissed, what will? Wait, I know the answer to that as I am experiencing that problem right now. The answer ladies and gentlemen is annoying co-passengers! The dumbass sitting in my front can’t sit still for a moment and has been playing with his seat since the time he got in and then there’s the noisy Jackass troika sitting behind me. One of them actually on seeing that I was trying to connect to the net commented with such a witty comment “Net laga raha hai. Hope he opens some INTRESTING sites” I mean, really? I comment on people but that’s always in an undertone, not loud enough for all the people inside the aircraft to be able to hear it!

And finally, congrats to Go Air on killing the concept of AIR HOSTESSES. Right now there are 4 men serving the amazingly LOWLY priced food onboard! I am so bloody glad that I am returning by Kingfisher! Atleast, there will be air hostesses there. Fingers crossed for that!