Just Sarin

and boy was it a long leaving.....

enter the airport at 6:00 to catch an Air Deccan flight scheduled for departure at 7:10. dad dropped me, and i told him to leave, expecting the flight to be on time, as no intimation was made to me otherwise.

in i go, and innocently check in, and am informed that the flight is on time. so i complete security check and find a seat to wait for the flights boarding to be announced.

suddenly there's an announcement that the flight will be delayed, and the new departure time is 20:50. okay, so its only about two hours late... so we sit waiting about after making a little noise about low cost air ways. in the mean time the other two flights out of there are also delayed by about an hour or so.

about 8:00 p.m., the delay is stretched to 00:30... now everyone is upset. lot of noise is made. everyone swears never to fly by air deccan again... but the resolute indians wait for the flight departure to be announced. some people have connecting flights at 5:00 a.m. and are now getting really jittery. others have connections at 9:30 and have now decided not to leave the air port at all. still others have a driver waiting outside the airport to drive them to another city,
who's just camping out there... and i have a friend who is just laughing as he thinks of how he will come at 4 a.m. to pick me up from the airport.

suddenly the flight is delayed to 01:15. no one gives a damn any more. a few groans go up, but there is hardly any movement. the people from the airlines have completely disappeared from the lounge, and all other flights have by now departed. it is only the flight to chennai that is left... even the one babe who was on her way to jaipur, clad in some short skirt, has left.

final boarding happens at 01:30. everyone is just relieved to be on their way, and makes a solemn promise never to fly by air deccan again... poor me - i've already got tickets booked for flying to bhopal for andy and tinni's weddings.... i can just sigh as the flight takes off.....