The logic is sound. Lord Ganesha - the elephant headed remover of obstacles (the irony will be self-evident by the end of this note!) prefers rats as his vehicle of choice. Rats prefer to Air India as their vehicle of choice (proven - I'll get to that in a second). Hence Lord Ganesha prefers Air India.
As if the punch up detailed in the last entry in this space wasn't enough, some good souls pointed out a couple of other recently reported incidents. And this is where the rats come in!
Incident 1 -
147 passengers were deplaned in Amritsar when a Toronto bound aircraft was found to have a rat (unfortunately for the rat he wasn't one disguised as a human - but there were plenty of those on this flight as well!).
Incident 2 -
A week after that 412 passengers were deplaned in Calicut from a Riyadh bound flight (maybe thats a good thing!) when a rodent was spotted on that one! Again - this was a rodent-shaped rodent. The human-shaped ones didn't create any panic (though they're the real trouble-makers). And then they flew an empty plane down from Mumbai so that the stranded passengers could take their trip to Riyadh. Quite rich for a bankrupt airline!
What surprises me is that we haven't had some religeous group going up in arms defending the rights of the average rodent to fly in view of them having close connections with Lord Ganesha. Sound logic that too!
Bring it on Shiv Sena / MNS! If there's anyone who can top AI on the outrageously-and-infuriatingly-stupid index - it's you guys!
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Sunday, October 4, 2009
There's drama in the air!
In the midst of all the tragedies during the last week (floods in the Philippines, Vietnam and India, the earthquake(s) in Indonesia, the tsunami in Samoa and the landslides in Sicily), Air India took some time out to provide the world with some comic relief (and yet another reason to stop flying that ridiculous airline).
There was a mid-air scuffle. Now this would've been an "oh-ok-that-sucks" moment if it was between 2 passengers. It would've been a "really?-that's-terrible!" moment if it was between a passenger and one of the crew members. But it was between the crew and the pilots!!! Thats what makes it such a "What-the-fuck!!????" moment worth blogging about!!! (BCT - borrowing your term for this one if you dont mind!)
So this flight was going from Sharjah to Delhi via Lucknow - which in itself sounds like trouble - and somewhere en route to Lucknow, over Pakistan (unnamed sources blamed the ISI for the scuffle but even they couldn't have come up with something so stupid... and thats saying something!!!), the incident ensued. Facts are unclear (surprise surprise!!) but there are misconduct claims and sexual harassment allegations flying around with a couple of people walking away with bruises. All of them ended up without jobs by the end of that!
Now there are a few very disturbing things about this whole thing:
1) that the pilot(s) would actually beckon a stewardess into the cockpit (oh - the double meanings I have to resist right now!!) and molest her!!! WHAT THE.... was he thinking? That he'd get away with it?!!!???!!!!!????
2) even if he did (molest her).... which, in my opinion, should make him eligible for capital punishment (yeah - I'm extreme that way!), if I was a part of the crew, I'd wait till we were on the ground before punching him up (and punch him up I would). I don't want to piss off the only person in the air who is likely to get me to ground in one piece, still in a state to be able to knock his teeth out.
3) apparently - when the plane landed in Lucknow, most of the passengers were so freaked out - they deplaned and took a train or something! But no one reported the matter! IDIOTS!
Net - Air India explores new depths. The Maharajah needs to be retired. And for heaven's sake... DON'T FLY AIR INDIA. India has a couple of other world class airlines, but Air India isn't one of them. Pity they carry the country's name!
There was a mid-air scuffle. Now this would've been an "oh-ok-that-sucks" moment if it was between 2 passengers. It would've been a "really?-that's-terrible!" moment if it was between a passenger and one of the crew members. But it was between the crew and the pilots!!! Thats what makes it such a "What-the-fuck!!????" moment worth blogging about!!! (BCT - borrowing your term for this one if you dont mind!)
So this flight was going from Sharjah to Delhi via Lucknow - which in itself sounds like trouble - and somewhere en route to Lucknow, over Pakistan (unnamed sources blamed the ISI for the scuffle but even they couldn't have come up with something so stupid... and thats saying something!!!), the incident ensued. Facts are unclear (surprise surprise!!) but there are misconduct claims and sexual harassment allegations flying around with a couple of people walking away with bruises. All of them ended up without jobs by the end of that!
Now there are a few very disturbing things about this whole thing:
1) that the pilot(s) would actually beckon a stewardess into the cockpit (oh - the double meanings I have to resist right now!!) and molest her!!! WHAT THE.... was he thinking? That he'd get away with it?!!!???!!!!!????
2) even if he did (molest her).... which, in my opinion, should make him eligible for capital punishment (yeah - I'm extreme that way!), if I was a part of the crew, I'd wait till we were on the ground before punching him up (and punch him up I would). I don't want to piss off the only person in the air who is likely to get me to ground in one piece, still in a state to be able to knock his teeth out.
3) apparently - when the plane landed in Lucknow, most of the passengers were so freaked out - they deplaned and took a train or something! But no one reported the matter! IDIOTS!
Net - Air India explores new depths. The Maharajah needs to be retired. And for heaven's sake... DON'T FLY AIR INDIA. India has a couple of other world class airlines, but Air India isn't one of them. Pity they carry the country's name!
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