Fogged out at Delhi Airport
There was fog in the air. Though I left bleary eyed from home, albeit with a song in my heart, at 5 AM this morning, fate had other plans for the day. Together with hundreds of other hapless passengers, I remained cooped up in the security lounge, waiting for boarding the aircraft, flight delayed due to the annual scourge of Delhi airports- fog in the air. All the high-fangled CAT systems they speak about seem to have met the waterloo of ill trained pilots; a sad fact of life ensured by runaway competition in the sky, and airlines tightening up at their purses, all of this combined with a virtual drought of quality pilots. Things only got worse after we were herded(in retrospect, that is the right word) into the aircraft. We sat in the aircraft for TWO WHOLE HOURS, while the congestion created due to fog started getting cleared by the Delhi ATC. In effect, we were on the ground for six hours before getting airborne. To top it all, we are now going to Chennai, to return to our ultimate ...