Post Mortem....

Last weekend was a hectic one...Heavily eventful too..
Met a batch of really enthusiastic people and felt like I was back in college and doing my daily routine...
Time to elucidate on the facts that made me hate Indian Airlines..
I was in TVM last friday for meeting up with the new recruits who were to join us this year. We hosted a party at Muthoot later in the night, and I think everything went really well that day. I was scheduled to catch the IA flight next day at 3:40 pm to B'lore enroute to Hyderabad. My dad is an IA fan and when I called him he said it always arrived and took off on time.

Except on this blessed Saturday..

• 2:40 pm: I was at the airport one hour in advance, after confirming that the flight was on scehdule..The moment I got down from the rikshaw, an electryfying message greeted me...IA flight to B'lore delayed by 20 mins..
• 3:00pm to 3:35 pm: No problems..I could reach B'lore by 5 pm and take the next flight at 5:55, which happened to be one Air Deccan flight..I asked the people on the Air Deccan counter if that flight was delayed..They said till last week it was delayed, but today it would surely take off on time...Damn...Murphy's Laws were coming at me like a meteorite shower on Jupiter..
• 4:15 pm..: No sight of the aircraft..
• 4:20 pm..: The aircraft from B'lore and Cochin lands lazily..
• 4:30 pm..: I'd already bitten all my finger nails off by now..Impatiently jostled with the entire passenger queue and settled into my fav 8F seat (1st row in economy in an A320 carrier, i.e, first to board and first to get off)..
• 5:35 pm..: The darned flight took suprisingly less time to land, and by 5:35 pm I was in B'lore..
• 5:35 - 5:40 pm: Then I embarked on my mini marathon..Ran from arrivals..Totally dilaphidated airport..Couldn't figure out where departure was..Finally found it amongst some bricks and mortar.. Some weird construction was going on..
• 5:40 pm: I'm at the security check in frantically trying to wade into gate 2 like Moses amidst the Ocean..
• 5:45 pm: I'm the last guy to get into the Deccan flight with half the airport staff mouthing obscenities at me and a big migraine attack settling in..

Phew...What a day to forget..