It has become a habit for me these days. For someone it is a cup of tea, for someone else it is newspaper. For me the morning routine is check news on my smart phone and share some news or other with my own boring captions in FB/Twitter.
This morning also I was not disappointed. Spicy news. Spicejet incident, holi dance on board on "holi" day. DGCA might take some action against them, but can they afford to ground the airlines. Is spicejet not badly needed by common "flying" man ? Is there any thing wrong in having some spicy act on board? As such, the crew is bored of serving the same coffee and tea. Would they miss an opportunity to serve a bit of "Bhang" on the occasion of Holi, as such alcoholic drinks are banned in flight ! Even those elderly people who got cornered some where in the aircraft, who were denied that cozy emergency exit for obvious reasons ( two primary reasons, 1. they may not be capable of operating the door 2. they can wait, they need to get out of the emergency door last if at all required ), would have danced to the "Balam Pichkari song from Jawani Diwani" steps.
Let me attempt to use this word "tick-tock" - all the Indian media would have done a tick-tock of this incident. Tick-tock is one of the 900 words/phrases got added to Oxford dictionary this March - It has nothing to do with the sound of a clock, tick-tock is a work of journalism which presents a detailed chronology of events ! I am a bit disappointed in not seeing desi words like "Kolavari Di" or "Ullu Banaying ( the younger ABachan tells in that recent Idea ad). Probably next year these would get an entry.
To read more on holi dance on Spicejet:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/DGCA-sees-red-at-midair-Holi-dance-by-SpiceJet-cabin-crew/articleshow/32320527.cms
I came to know where the word "taxiing" or "taxying" an aircraft originated when I took a flight from Kadmandu to Pokhara. This was another sponsored trip by my company ! To attend a conference organized by one of our customers to have a work-out with all their "preferred" but most hated outsourcing partners in India. Those small aircraft were moving around in that small place as coolly as those taxis in city railway station. The door would be open till the last person does a sprint and gets into the aircraft. Once I was inside in that 14 seater plane, the pilot the only person from that airlines agency in that, put the aircraft on hand brake. Then he greeted us, and distributed a packaged soft drink. And then he just took off. I was praying in between he does not put the aircraft on auto pilot mode and then come out to demo us the safety measures or announce the temperature outside ! And those maneuvers in between hills were no different than what our taxiwalas do on Hosur Road to pass in between KSRTC buses and sand laden lorries ! So in some sense these guys at Pokhara were taxiing the aircraft in the air as well !
However, what impresses me the royal treatment one generally gets in any flight. The warm greeting welcome on board, preferred seat, welcome drink with a smile, food and snacs with a much more broader smile. The crew is so polite. So courteous. They treat you like kings/queens. Is it because the air journey is too dangerous and one may not get another chance to serve or being served ? Not at all, air travel is much much safer than road or rail, especially in India. If the pilot sleeps for a while, no harm, auto pilot will take care of it in a plane, it can land by itself if needed. But these buses go and hit some thing or other and invariably catch fire with no emergency door to operate.
Or is it that only rich travel by air and rich always expect politeness and courtesy? And rich will behave decently too. Possible. What one can't buy with money these days? Then I hope the same decency is extended in all walks of their life - not limited that only in an aircraft.
What ever be the case, one thing is certain. Whether one is rich or poor, whether one travels by air or not. One can personally practice and one can coach others also - as how to behave like a crew member on a flight, in every part of one's life. Even if he is not on a flight, he could assume so. It might bring in pride in himself. It can make the other person feel that he is on top of the world, he would feel as he is flying in the cloud nine ! Along with you.
This morning also I was not disappointed. Spicy news. Spicejet incident, holi dance on board on "holi" day. DGCA might take some action against them, but can they afford to ground the airlines. Is spicejet not badly needed by common "flying" man ? Is there any thing wrong in having some spicy act on board? As such, the crew is bored of serving the same coffee and tea. Would they miss an opportunity to serve a bit of "Bhang" on the occasion of Holi, as such alcoholic drinks are banned in flight ! Even those elderly people who got cornered some where in the aircraft, who were denied that cozy emergency exit for obvious reasons ( two primary reasons, 1. they may not be capable of operating the door 2. they can wait, they need to get out of the emergency door last if at all required ), would have danced to the "Balam Pichkari song from Jawani Diwani" steps.
Let me attempt to use this word "tick-tock" - all the Indian media would have done a tick-tock of this incident. Tick-tock is one of the 900 words/phrases got added to Oxford dictionary this March - It has nothing to do with the sound of a clock, tick-tock is a work of journalism which presents a detailed chronology of events ! I am a bit disappointed in not seeing desi words like "Kolavari Di" or "Ullu Banaying ( the younger ABachan tells in that recent Idea ad). Probably next year these would get an entry.
To read more on holi dance on Spicejet:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/DGCA-sees-red-at-midair-Holi-dance-by-SpiceJet-cabin-crew/articleshow/32320527.cms
I came to know where the word "taxiing" or "taxying" an aircraft originated when I took a flight from Kadmandu to Pokhara. This was another sponsored trip by my company ! To attend a conference organized by one of our customers to have a work-out with all their "preferred" but most hated outsourcing partners in India. Those small aircraft were moving around in that small place as coolly as those taxis in city railway station. The door would be open till the last person does a sprint and gets into the aircraft. Once I was inside in that 14 seater plane, the pilot the only person from that airlines agency in that, put the aircraft on hand brake. Then he greeted us, and distributed a packaged soft drink. And then he just took off. I was praying in between he does not put the aircraft on auto pilot mode and then come out to demo us the safety measures or announce the temperature outside ! And those maneuvers in between hills were no different than what our taxiwalas do on Hosur Road to pass in between KSRTC buses and sand laden lorries ! So in some sense these guys at Pokhara were taxiing the aircraft in the air as well !
However, what impresses me the royal treatment one generally gets in any flight. The warm greeting welcome on board, preferred seat, welcome drink with a smile, food and snacs with a much more broader smile. The crew is so polite. So courteous. They treat you like kings/queens. Is it because the air journey is too dangerous and one may not get another chance to serve or being served ? Not at all, air travel is much much safer than road or rail, especially in India. If the pilot sleeps for a while, no harm, auto pilot will take care of it in a plane, it can land by itself if needed. But these buses go and hit some thing or other and invariably catch fire with no emergency door to operate.
Or is it that only rich travel by air and rich always expect politeness and courtesy? And rich will behave decently too. Possible. What one can't buy with money these days? Then I hope the same decency is extended in all walks of their life - not limited that only in an aircraft.
What ever be the case, one thing is certain. Whether one is rich or poor, whether one travels by air or not. One can personally practice and one can coach others also - as how to behave like a crew member on a flight, in every part of one's life. Even if he is not on a flight, he could assume so. It might bring in pride in himself. It can make the other person feel that he is on top of the world, he would feel as he is flying in the cloud nine ! Along with you.
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