Wednesday, December 27, 2006

Winter morning at Airport


Recently I experienced what most of the early winter morning travellers experience fog impact
I was supposed to catch a flight from Delhi to Chennai at around 8:30 PM it was to depart but what was in store on was different story: passengers were loaded on to the plane and all the necessary drill was excercised and slowly the aircraft was waiting for the ATC clearance . As i was watching through the window i could see the distant Halo- Lamp getting hazy and fog coming over the air stips so what more can one expect the captain honking on the microphone saying we are getting delayed due to fog and as soon it goes off we will fly but then i am a veteran in analysing such stuffs and I was sure we aint flying ..
then the attendants were handing some samosa and sandwitch to all the passengers and later the announced that the flight is halted and delayed for further weather clearance .
Then all were ferried again to the terminal where we again caught up with luggage and here started and episodes of shouting and brunts of angry passengers all of them surrounding the Airline official . that time I realised that public is really fiery if they dont get proper answers . The employees were all facing the brunt of people they were triying to pacify the irked passesngers but it did less .
Finally we were told that the plane is reschedule to 10:30 next morning . and rest all passesngers were fighinting for the cause that where will they stay or not few fortunate called homes to get pickup few took taxis .
but whole ordeal is one of a kind where you see disdained people all around and every one has there obvious motives .
NExt day the airport was again full of people asif whole country is travlling most of the airline desk were seen people blowing up there problems and making them responsible for each of the problems in their lives . Long ques for checkin and finally i was again loadd on to the aircraft where again i had my free samosa because there were further delay due to the bottle neck of other airlines . Finally when the plane left the ground almost after 2 hours of drills excercises everyone clapped as if just columbia climbed up to moon.

In some senses i would appreciate the airline official that they dealt well and to all my fellow mates travellers , you may not see those problems in advanced countries by now because of there systems but then my country's airport are getting chocked because of us only so pressure is obvious . Keep the patience running .

Finally my Delhi airport will see some changes from next year as the fog CAT system use will be in place but till then it will see some more days like this .

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