Ganesh Iyer Renu be happy at least the flight took off
Shailesh Mohabe cold food may be he his trying to give message that kingfisher bear taste more then the food when it is served cold.....
Renu Narvekar @ ganesh - agree. Must count my blessings, though it was late both ways !
@ shailesh - he shd stick to selling the beer & give up aviation. The food was not only cold but inedible & had a distinct smell
@ shirin - del mum del . Similar probs...
Ameeta Shetty Kapur what next renu?.. rodents?
Renu Narvekar @ ameeta - dread to evn think ! low cost airlines anyday. Atleast no false promises.
I picked up Renu’s story to share my experiences with the Big Airlines. I had already narrated the story of Air India in my very first blog. Later on I deleted that portion thinking that at least as an Indian let me preserve the honor of something Indian.
Big Airlines are pathetic not always but sometimes. Here is a story of Jet Airlines. 4 of us were travelling to Hongkong in the business class. The much advertised beds to sleep on were nice. You can really lie down and sleep for the night.
The trouble arose in our return flight. They did not have food to serve. Drinks were served after some delay. Thereafter there was no dinner being served. I thought that maybe that was the custom. We could see people in the economy class almost finishing their meal. Then we had to ask the crew and some food was served. Normal food over, we were looking for some dessert. My God! It looked as if the crew were praying that all of us had diabetes and that we were not interested in anything sweet. On being called the attendant came and told me that there was indeed a shortage. I almost shouted at him. Thereafter he got me something.
From that day’s experience I have got a lower esteem for the esteemed airline which has done a lot for the Indian air passengers in the last 20 years or so. My sister in law was lauding their performance on her last visit to Mumbai from Toronto. She was raving about the food. This makes me think. Renu’s journey that day or our journey from Hongkong must have been one of ‘those’ days. I am sure the two stalwarts – Mr Mallaya and Mr Goyal would not want any of their customers to feel unhappy on anything. But lower down, the management needs to take serious note of such complaints. It may be true that demand exceeds supply – but that is no reason for taking customers for granted. I am aware that some of the foreign airlines crew are known for their haughty attitude. Given the chance, we try to avoid them. After our Air India experience this May, we have decided to carry our own food (at least some quantity).
So much for the Airlines!! Now let me talk of rodents in Public transport.
Do you know that there are a fixed set of living beings who do the origin to destination journey on every long distance train of the Indian Railways? They are the Rats. They are there in every train and they are doing Mumbai-Bangalore or Mumbai-Chennai and back every day in their respective rakes.
About 4 years back, Susmita and I were travelling AC – 3 tier to Bangalore in the night train from LTT . We were carrying our food, nicely packed. After dinner we kept the containers back properly packed in newspapers. In the morning we found the newspapers to be shredded into thousands of pieces. Immediately we knew that the rats had a field day the previous night.
The story does not end there. What do you think was the continuation in the story? We reach our niece’s place in Bangalore (the same one who is in Paris now). While having dinner all of a sudden we found something moving along the curtains. Hmm!! We realized that Mr Rat with address LTT station, Kurla, Mumbai, Maharashtra has travelled with us in that express train and then got transported to our niece’s place in Bangalore, Karnataka via our bag. The previous night’s aroma of the food etc must have made Mr Rat decide why not travel with this family at the destination. He also wanted to see Bangalore city rather than remain in Bangalore station as always.
That was not the correct decision. He was not aware that the owner of the bag had done post-graduation in rat-killing (please see my blog – Ganpati Bappa). Sure enough, he was killed before the break of dawn much to the comfort of our dear niece. She felt otherwise she would have a tough time saving her assets from that un-welcome guest.
See - I have got stories to tell matching all your thoughts and experiences.
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