Insanely early mornings, getting my posterior felt up by CISF jawans with metal detectors (haven't worked out why my ass always beeps!), yet walking through security with lighters - unbeknown to me (lighters and matchboxes have this bad habit of sneaking into my hand luggage - that despite my drastic reduction in smoking) and generally enjoying airline food (not!) and collecting frequent flyer miles (the one joy of air travel). When I was a kid I loved travelling by air - hopping from Delhi to Calcutta on Indian Airlines' huge A300 planes as an 'Unaccompanied Minor' - but nowadays it has become a chore and the silly liquid rule has led to me checking in luggage when I really didn't need to. Thankfully, I've managed to steer clear of low-costs for a while and I don't think I'll be moving my butt inside a 737 for a while.
This is one thing I have never worked out - the skies over India are always very hazy and Jet Airways desperately need to clean their windows more often.
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One of the perils of flying :)
One of my better pictures I would say!
the skies over india are indeed always hazy! It is an indication of the pollution that india is under; experts have even named it as the "asian brown haze".
I dont think Jet airways' windows have much to do with it :)
Fear of flying and its 'overdetermination' has a parallel, very Indian epistemology. Last week an IA flight to Bangalore had a wing nearly falling out. Pilot calmly announces, there is a technical problem, nothing serious - just routine.Fasten your seat belts please.Routine?
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