Crazy Trivandrum Aiport - To and From

Hi All..

Blog after looooooong interval. Incidentally sitting in front of the same terminal where i wrote my first blog

This is a funny experience i got when i and my fren Mohit RC had a journey to Trivandrum airport for our Flight to Chennai.

Journey to Airport via Auto from Technopark TCS

The journey started off at 1750 approx The journey was a 15km one in auto.It started raining heavily. Mohit was seated to the open end and I at the other. As a result Mohit's right side got drenched. I escaped with few rain drops.

A conversation started off between Auto driver(old guy) and Mohit in malayalam. Since the auto guy got a person who knew malayalam, he started speaking with a max of 6 sec break(I counted it :))

Poor mohit had to answer to all his one sided conversations. I felt happy that i didn know malayalam. I escaped. I and Mohit Tried to break this and we started speakng in english in between but the auto driver didn stop.

In bet ween he got calls in his mobile (Good business links it seems)
We too told each other that it would not be surprising if they had any LinkedIn Accounts for their business contacts.

Mohit commented on the driver as this is called as "Verbal Diarrhoea" at first i couldn get what he meant in auto sound. In a split second when the auto driver started talking again i got what mohit intended to say.

Finally we reached Airport

Funny Incidents in Airport

We didn have the credit card copy for the check-in which was mentioned in the required docs so we were a bit nervous (Actually i was nervous not him)

Finally we entered airport and showed ticket print out and the id proofs. The guard jus saw mohit's and didn bother to look into mine...

Then we had the Shock of the Day.

The power went off in airport. Total blackout for atleast 10 seconds.

The most worst thing to happen in an International Airport. All computer systems went off. Even they were not connected to UPS. The checkin admin told us to wait till the system rebooted.

Mohit enquired about ATM in airport. I said it wouldn be there. He told every airport would have that. But I was sure this pathetic airport wont have one. Finally Mohit got the expected "NO" from airport authorities :)

We then waited for boarding our flight there we couldn find a place to sit that too hardly 15 ppl were there :)

We planned to go upstairs to sit there we had condsiderably good space to sit but the escalators were not working.I think the UPS were not good enough to support the escalators :)

Then before boarding we went to the rest room , god it was stinking like public toilets as we see on roadsides. Too pathetic.

Finally we sat in front of the boarding exit. We saw a crowd lininig up for the exit
I first thought it would be the flight before us and not our flight as 1 min back before coming to the exit i saw the board saying a different flight. So we both sat and didn bother, then we got slght doubt and i told mohit to ask one of the persons standing there, He told its the Chennai Flight boarding queue. Immediately i went and saw the board it was changed to our flight. There were no announcements made for the change that was done.. Oh god

Then we boarded the small propellar Kingfisher Flight. There were only two propellers standing in the entire airport.

Wierdest and Funniest Things on board

We finally boarded he flight. It was just tall enough to take mohit in. If he tip toed he would ve got hit on the roof :)

We sat in our seats and fastened the seat belts. The flight captain made the most funniest announcement

He said "Welcome aboard KingFisher Flight 2883 to Trivandrum"!!!!

The flight was in trivandrum and he said its bound to Trivandrum. I thought its jus a slip of tongue. But for the second time he said the same thing again

We both looked at each other and said "Machi are we in the correct flight ?"

I told Mohit to ask the airhostess and he told me to ask that as it is the most idiotic question to be asked in a flight after boarding it and sitting our designated places :)

But we were still doubting the destination of the flight. Finally Mohit asked the Airhostess corageously for which she responded "Chennai" and giggled. Too embarassing.

Then the flight started. Noise of the propellers filled our ears till we took off

Entire flight was turbulent as the weather was bad. It was too scary to look out the propellar blades in the night effect in mid air with lights flashing on it.

Mohit got air sick dsuddenly due to turbulent movement. He was so uncomfortable. He then asked for lemon, which the airhostess said they don ve it. Too pathetic again.

Now the food, Veg biriyani was ok as i was hungry i didn mind the taste. He was so air sick that he didn have anything for sometime. He had water what they gave and told me "Macha this water is like tap water da.." I tasted it.. god even our normal tap water would be better. It was blande. Finally we had the food and waited for the landing announce ment from Captain. We reached chennai and circled around for landing permissions.

Other crazy thing which we felt that the landing was too harsh..

Finally we landed half an hour well in advance. The most happiest thing that happened that day..



Wat an experience...