Wednesday, December 28, 2011

My first Air-Travel!!!




It was November 21, 2011 and i was sitting in cubicle and was switching on my Laptop. As i sit in the corner of my cubicle i can see all who passes by there...
Suddenly i sensed someone coming and i turned my face towards that direction and saw my Manager was coming and behind two of my colleagues from my module only were following him!!! To my surprise, my manger said "Pavan, come with us!!!" I was surprised that why he was calling me. Without any other reply, i followed them with just a smile.
When we reached his cubicle, he opened his Laptop and showed us some matrix and said, "Pavan you have to move to Aligarh for some Rollout activity for 15 days. So don’t plan anything for next two weeks...I said OK without thinking anything and i was very sad hearing the name Aligarh :( I had not heard of that place also :(
Later my colleagues told me that it is some 130kms from Delhi...
Immediately one thought came in my mind. If i have to move to Aligarh means, i have to pass via Delhi only.(Delhi means i can take a flight from Pune to Delhi!!!)
Later one more guy from our office was also informed to come to Aligarh with me!!! and the most important thing was i had to leave Pune within 4 days!!!
After some discussion, our travel date was finalised to 26 November 2011.
We got our Air tickets on 25 November evening at 6 pm!!! Now i was very much excited to travel in Flight as i had never been in the Flight before!!!
Our flight was scheduled at 10:55 am and as i was very excited, i left the home very early at 9 am(Airport is only 5 min from my home!!!)
I reached there and was waiting for my friend...He came at 9:55 am and we rushed to get the boarding pass.
After so many checking and verifications, we were waiting for the next announcement...
After few minutes, we got the announcement to board the flight!!!Now i was jumping with joy as i was about to board the Flight and when i saw the mighty KINGFISHER standing out there ,i was heading towards it without taking my eyes from it!!!
When we entered in, the beautiful Air hostess wished us with a smile :) (Earlier i had heard that the Airhostess in KingFisher are very beautiful, but today I saw that!!! ;) )
Praise my Luck, i got a window seat!!! I was happy for it... The next person to me started talking with me. He was from Malaysia and had come to INDIA for a trip.
His name was Mr.Chong!!!
I tightened my seat belt and after few minutes, the Welcome note video by Dr.Vijay Mallya followed by the announcement about the safety measures in the Flight
was explained with the help of a video clip featuring Yana Gupta!!!
Then the moment came when the flight was about to take-off...The two small layers from the wings expanded and all the 8 antennas on it were focussing ground!!!
I never took my eyes out of window. Slowly the Plane started to move backwards and after a turn, it started in the normal direction with a formal speed and it kept on increasing and finally the flight took off!!!
I was also watching the small screen in front of me which was showing the map and speed, temperature and direction of flight...It was scheduled 2 hours,05 minutes journey from Pune to Delhi...The Speed of the flight was increasing as the height was increasing, but for us the flight was
like in a stand-still position!!!
Then I changed the channels and started watching other channels and the movie Singham was being telecasted in some channel...
Then they started to serve the meal. I was given a PavBhaji,chocolate punch and Taj Mahal tea!!!
It was tasty!!!
At some point of time when i saw the map and details, i was shocked!!! It was at the height of 10,000 ft and the speed was 980 kms/hr!!!
Ultimate of all these was the temperature outside which was -320 Celsius!!! even though we can see the bright atmosphere outside!!!
The flight was flying at a great height as a result all the clouds were looking like curd spreading after it falls on the ground!!!
It was heavenly to watch such a view!!!
After few minutes at 12:50 pm, one more announcement came in which they said to fasten the seat belts as we were about to land. This was the tough moment i was waiting for!!! within few minutes all the things started to appear big in size and we were few hundred mts above ground and finally when the flight landed on the ground, it was at a great speed and to reduce the force the upper part of the wings opened up and stood vertical and came back to their normal position once the speed was very less... :)
Totally i was very happy after my first Air-travel!!! :)
Then before getting down i wished my co-passenger who was from Malaysia and before i came out of the flight, again the beautiful Air hostess wished me a Good Day!!!

After getting down in Delhi what happened and about the Aligarh experience i'll write in my next posts...

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