Bon Voyage

17.10 hrs:
I have never seen an airport as cramped and overwhelmingly crowded as Kolkata airport yesterday. There were queues everywhere. From baggage X ray to Check-in to Security to Boarding gate, was one long seamless queue. People from six different airlines were jostling for space.

18.25 hrs:
I have been standing for the past 75 minutes- moving from one queue to another. There was no place to sit. The queue had people with genuine "waiting-to-board" passengers and also the people who could not find a place to sit. IA arranged to send passengers to Mumbai and Chennai through the same boarding gate. There was a scramble to catch the bus to take you to the aircraft. In the end, hopping onto the Indian Airlines flight was like climbing an RTC bus.

19.20 hrs:
A big fat man is pulling out his luggage inside the aircraft at Bhubaneswar airport. He appeared a Scandinavian to me, seeing his "sweat" quotient! A concerned Indian gentleman told him that the aircraft was not yet at Chennai. ( Gosh, what was that... the big, fat guy thought he was on a Concorde?? 30 minutes from Cal to Chennai!!!)

20.00 hrs:
The plane took off after depositing 10 guys and picking up none at Bhubaneswar. Waste of ATF. Apparently, the flight to Bhubaneswar was cancelled the day before, so the adjustment had to be made. The guy next to me complained. It seems he has a meeting at 2200 hrs and he is delayed badly. (What crap!! Meeting on a Sunday night at 10..whom are you kidding mate)

21.15 hrs:
An old man to the guy next to me, "That thing is nice-your mobile. You can hear songs on that too, right?"
The guy next to me to the old man, "No, its an iPod"
Old man,"Oh..which brand?"
(Why God why, Why only me!!!)

21.45 hrs:
Took my baggage. Thankfully not damaged this time.

22.00 hrs:
A small girl looked at my T-shirt and smiled. I looked down and read it.
"Today is not your day. Tomorrow does not look any better either"