Aug 30, 2007 12:35 PM
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(Updated Aug 30, 2007 07:03 PM)
As I write to this to a packed house the soothing music of luggage containers of this “dadaji” Alliance Airlines fill my ears with sweet pleasure. A BOEING 737 it is! and perhaps 30-40 years ago BOEING as company took the pride of bringing out first big bird to fly in the air and every where, on my window panes, on the entrance gate and on the panels it boasts to be pride of yesteryear with BOEING 737 engraved everywhere, a pride that I am living three-four decades after, this review makes the record of being the first ever to be written on cloud nine, I am still 35000 feet above the ground started from Bhubaneswar with a Indian Airlines Boarding Pass.
This flight could be called my most wonderful experience ever! Because first time in my life I can see how exactly a rickety-rattling bus plying between Mirzapur and Jaunpur has its sibling up in air! Every part of the Jet is performing with the sound of the Jet- an orchestra in unison!
I have just finished with food and it has taken me to memory lanes of my college years where we used to eat at a Dhaba and how painful it was to call a lunch a lunch and a dinner a dinner!
The food was served with utmost love and care with a lovely lady few years younger to my mom! So you can expect what a delight it was to be fed by the hands of one’s mother. I can see some “just out of cocoon beauties” around too! But they are just helping passengers with rickety luggage containers which are repeatedly threatening to throw the goodies inside on to passengers sitting below! The poor chap is not able to concentrate- fear struck he is! Even I would not like to return home with “VIP lalbatti on my forehead” I am checking the one above me time and again.
The seats are so co-operative you need not push back to get into comfortable position they are giving away themselves, “dhakkaa mat maaro, hum toh kub se giree hue hain”
Coffees have been served and the aunties are killing gossip mongers in the rear of the Jet. Few passengers have tried the “ghanti jo billi ko bulaati hai” but the aunties know their work is done and now they just wait for the landing. How sweet! They should indeed put a DO NOT DISTURB too!
And the most fearsome episode that has just made my heart jump out of my mouth, as the aircraft leaped in full speed to kiss the sky. The cockpit gate opened with a big jolt- either it was not properly shut or the system that keeps it shut has died its age! But believe me! One of the aunties put a brave face front and closed the door as if nothing happened! Three cheers for her. She is a courageous than me.
Now I have pressed the “billi bulaao ghanti” and the cat has not come! Now I am feeling embarrassed I did the blunder fully awared! Shame on me! I need a bottle of water and the cat is no where to be seen! Finally the cat arrived and I had been served the bottle!
“Khopri per nahi mara! Sundari ne haath me pakraya hai yaaro!” This was one of the “just out cocoon beauties” I mentioned few minutes ago.
But things are not actually bad you see! There are other side of the coin too…and it will be necessary to throw my table lamp on them too(copyright duely acknowledged to Daya). To help you follow brighter aspect of Alliance let me now put it down in points.
To start with first thing first-
These ladies are much professional and offer better services to you. The response to any customer being slow could be because she had been busy with some other, ofcourse I not able to see 360 degree in one go! So I might have missed when she was serving to another passenger
Unlike the Jet Airways girl(a fresher of course) who thought she is too beautiful to greet me a welcome or hello- this lady greeted me with wide smile- welcome onboard sir- this I call being professional- her duty is to make a customer privileged and that she is doing just fine
The lady in Alliance is confident and presents a calm and reposed gesture and is in full control of things in the flight
While serving she smiles at you- again a professional gesture- the Jet girl just handed over the goodies to me- again she thought she was too beautiful to smile at me!
But what I have to do with her beauty? Especially when I know the grapes are sour! I am a customer and I need “service with smile” that’s it!
The take off was very smooth and I believe the landing will be smoother as the aircraft however rickety, is in hands of an experienced pilot(ofcourse unless the landing gear fails to operate when needed)
The Airlines is smart enough to keep two “just out of cocoon beauties” under the supervision of a head stewardess because experience sure does counts a lot!
The craft is now descending towards the ground. I have been asked to switch off my laptop. I have crossed fingers for a safe landing.
I am joyous to announce too that perhaps this is the first ever inflight review on Mouthshut
