Flying in a plane doesn’t give you a feeling different than sitting in your living room (unless of course you hit an air turbulence) until you take a look at the specs: Altitude 36000 feet, ground speed 0.87 mach (1065 Kmph in SI) and ambient temperature of -65 deg C, You are in hostile territory!
Air travel this time around was fun , cause it wasn’t my first time, abnormal landings with a twin thud of the wheels dint made me nervous, but most important of all I was heading home rather than away from it. The flight atmosphere in the final stretch was jovial for a change and Deltas’ “please india” strategy was in taste with all of us. The Indian crew, Indian food and movies had already given a hint of things to come. The pilots attempt to speak Hindi even though he was a Gujju, was very affable, he did from time to time reminded of his linguistic descent by his naive attempts to ask for excuses for his atypical hindi: “Deviyo aur sajjano, apnee kurse kee peeth seedhe karle aur seat belts baand le, Jahaaj utarne ke liye taiyaar hain”, people applauded the landing and the final announcement “Bharat ke New York, Mumbai shahar me aapka swaagat hain” was very cool- Love you Delta for that , It was a treat flying on the NY- Mumbai flight!
However the return journey was equally terrible and hated Delta for all the delays and missed baggages and was terrified by the fact that we had narrowly missed a mid air collision on the Atlanta- Houston flight !!!!!!!
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