A tale of two airlines

I travelled to India on Wednesday aboard Finnair. I always use Finnair, but this was the best flight I had with them, which is not to say that the others were bad. Just that this was the most comfortable flight for me.

I watched two monster movies back to back. First, the latest Godzilla and second Meg 2. Meg 2 specifically was very bad. It felt every bit as what you would get if corporates wrote the script.

We need it to do well in China, so there’s a Chinese lead. In the face of three killer mega sharks, there is a villain hell-bent on shooting Jason Statham. Why? The big bad needs to be chomped by these little dinosaur things, so she needs to send the chopper pilot to look at something. Why would you not just fly away?

I watched two movies, read for a bit, then slept. By the time the flight staff woke us for snacks and then landing, I was feeling refreshed, even though I had slept for less than two hours.

I had booked SpiceJet to go from Delhi to Bangalore. The flight was supposed to start at 19.00. It was delayed to 23.15. When I reached the airport, I was informed that the flight is delayed and will start at 02:20 instead.

I roamed around the mostly empty T3 airport, took some pictures, ate at McDonald’s. I tried to sleep on the benches, but couldn’t.

Around 1:00 someone from SpiceJet came and offered us food at Biryani Blues.

SpiceJet upgraded my 36A seat to 8B. I just did not have any energy to argue by this point.

The person sitting next to me was watching some YouTube video on speaker.

All I could think at that point was of course, this would happen.

I put on my headphones and tried to sleep for the next few hours.

I was able to. Despite everything.

The rest of it went smoothly after that. My luggage came fast enough. I got the cab quickly. I reached the hotel very quickly.

Bangalore is beautiful. It is cleaner compared to Delhi. That’s what I kept thinking while I was sitting in the cab.

Old things look old. That’s ok. That’s not my problem with Delhi. The problem is cleanliness.

The second problem of course is pollution. I could feel it in my lungs; my eyes were irritated.

Bangalore does not have that. The weather is awesome. I love it.