Flying in India is too Expensive! Why?

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bengaluru/woman-finds-bolt-in-sandwich-served-on-indigo-flight/articleshow/107674916.cms

Before clicking the link, find below a brief story about how a passenger felt after flying by Indigo airlines.

For the passenger Jyoti Rautela from Bangaluru, India, it’s a jolt. A Bolt from the Blue! How?

She traveled by Indigo flight on the 13 Feb 2024 from Bamgaluru to Chennai on Business Class. As the custom goes, the flight crew served them breakfast. A sandwich plus a packet of juice.

While her colleagues ate the sandwich, she kept it for the latter part of the day as she didn’t feel hungry.

After reaching the hotel, she thought she would take a bite. That’s when she realized she bit something hard. A tough nut inside a sandwich.

She was shocked. She quickly called the airlines and they promptly responded. Told her they were sorry to hear about the inconvenience and promised they would investigate.

Worse came when the customer service attached to the airline called and told her they couldn’t proceed any further on the complaint because the sandwich wasn’t eaten while the plane had been airborne.

Sad.

What if she had eaten the sandwich as the airlines said and put her life at risk of danger? Would the airlines have maintained ‘hands off’ like this?

This goes to prove that flying in India is too expensive, not just the spiralling cost of tickets, but because of biting a sandwich mid-air.

Gas or no gas! Push me to my destination!

https://twitter.com/sunnewstamil/status/1756994441129418917?t=zRpEaTwn4allbpJLcX8jig&s=19

The news television in India carried today a bizarre incident happened in Hyderabad, South of India.

A man hired a #Rapido, a two-wheeler hire service (a limited hire service operating only in few states) and sadly he found the scooter had run out of gas in the middle of journey.

How will he reach now to where he intended to go? It was a pre-paid service though.

No love lost between the two. Man insisted it was the rider’s fault to risk this deal and that left him at sea (pun intended). Rider said it was a sheer accident (no pun intended).

Rider obliged whatever the man said to do.

Man said; “push me to wherever you find a gas station close by and this is how I could punish you for negligence”.

The rest you see in the video-link attached.

What does the law say? Does the customer have the right to push the service-provider to this edge? Or is the rider duty-bound to carry him on his shoulders (literally) for the fact that he had agreed to provide him a service? For a cost.

What irks the most in this whole scenario is the other motorists on road care no two hoots (no pun intended) about what’s going on in the middle of road.

Someone could just halt, get down and ask if anybody was sick. What if they could offer to mediate between the two? Just in case the man wanted a quick resolution.

None helped.

Welcome to India!

For Hire! Gas or No Gas!