With the
recent event of a South Asian Airlne service (No, not that one, don’t worry) launching
low cost domestic and international flights in India, I am expecting a humongous
crowd flocking to it. By humongous crowd I don’t mean Dadar Station, locals
will be hellish as always, no good news there. More than the mango people, I am
actually expecting a Kingfisher kind of a crowd wanting to avail this on a desperate
level. Why Kingfisher, you ask? It’s because we are too snooty to travel in a
train and too stingy to travel by Jet Air. Also known as the rassi jal gayi par bal nahi gaya types. We as in I include myself as well, are such
bitches and dawgs who would come up with jokes even if we are given free
tickets on an Emirates or Lufthansa flight. We are so evil that we wouldn't mind
paying few extra bucks to travel by Air India only to get some material for humor.
And yeah, we will keep doing this. So
some of the things that may happen (may okay? I didn't say will) if we go the
railways way for flights.
- We will have to start booking for our 2016 flights now. I mean right now.
- We will have 10027 Mumbai-Delhi Up and 10026 Delhi-Mumbai Down flights.
- The only choice of seats would be Cramped up at a window, Cramped up at aisle, Cramped up at middle. (This is coming from a 5’10” girl).
- There will be a Ladies and Senior citizen quota that will not make a difference.
- There will be a Tatkal service that will bring out the Hulk in every Bruce Banner out there.
- And the inner Hulk will smash the keyboard at least once when Makemytrip and Cleartrip will show Service Unavailable after logging in.
- There is a bright possibility of seeing WL2366/WL997 and feeling flabbergasted as to why would someone book after WL100? Height of optimism.
- Travel booking portals will give 50 Rs off on domestic flights and lodges coupons. And still terms and conditions would apply.
- We will be able to successfully book your ticket after investing 5 hours, One pack of Marlboro Lights and a bottle of Old Monk.
- No boarding passes for Wait Listed passengers. They will have to do jugaad with the Airline counter at the airport.
- Instead of tags, we will get stickers sponsored by Bank of India or Vicco
- There will be no limit to check-in baggage, because they are aware that even if they set a limit, we will still carry bags big enough to fit our grandparents inside for a one week trip.
- No limit to cabin baggage as well to allow every passenger to smack the faces of the seated aisle passengers with their big ass bags.
- We will be asked to reach at least 10 minutes before the plane leaves the runway. Those 10 minutes are allotted to buy Bisleri and Filmfare from the aerobridge before we board.
- We will be allowed to carry Milton water coolers and Ludo board game.
- For security checking, there will only be one metal detector present and we can choose whether to walk through to it or not. We are all good people. The plane people know it.
- Once we board our economy level flight of economy flights, we will be greeted by nobody.
- We will hear Khoya Khoya Chand lounge music inside the cabin, or if we are in luck, Hotel California.
- If we manage to get a window seat, a shameless pot bellied uncle would be already sitting there thinking jab aayega tab dekhenge, abhi baith jaata hu.
- If we are sitting near the emergency exit i.e. Apatkalin Dwar, the stewardess will not come and tell us what to do. Because the window will be red with a glass case for a hammer next to it. The hammer would be missing to scare the daylights out of us.
- Once everybody settles in their seats, there will be one stewardess wearing leggings and kurta giving safety instructions.
- The stewardess will give the safety instructions in the regional language. Like, Tumcha seat cha khaali aani varti kaahich naahi. Oxygen level zar kami jhala tar vitthalache nav ghya OR Ee flight vellathil mungya guruvayurappane villikka, seatinde adiyil jacket onnum illya. Pinne belt ketti vekka, namade pilot number one kudiyan aanu.
- The seat belts would be made of Velcro.
- The stewardess will actually end the safety instructions with this joke “Aage do dwaar, peeche do dwaar, dono nahi khule, toh Haridwar” and then wink at us.
- We shall be asked to switch off our cell phones and all other devices. We will still sneakily use it because nobody will give a damn.
- The flight will take off 30 minutes late and the lavatory will have a queue outside even on the shortest 35 minutes Mumbai-Pune flight.
- In the back of our seat pockets there will be a brochure of airlines with a “wide selection of refreshments” priced 2 Rs less than the M.R.P of course. We can have bread butter and bread jam with tea, coffee and rasna sponsored by Kissan. Meals will be sponsored by Anand Bhavan. Lassi and Chhas by Amul.
- Once you are done the stewards will come to you with Rajnigandha and a tray full of tips that they had put themselves to get the ball rolling.
- The flight will land 30 minutes late by default because it will be last carrier to get the landing permission. We may also have to walk at the runway a little because it may not exactly stop near the aerobridge.
- And lastly, there will be a fleet of attendants who would fling your bags at you from the base of the plane because the stoppage is only for 10 minutes.
Either ways it's going to make travelling easy for impatient weirdos like me who cannot sit quietly for more than an hour. Because you know, Banglaore-Goa for Rs 990 is not bad at all! Too bad this is after the goafest (sorry Indian Madmen).
P. S. If I have offended
someone in this post then my job here is done.
Laters!

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