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 Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2015 11:48 am Post subject: M.B.AI. 3: The Dream)liner from Delhi to Kolkata |
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Hello everyone
And welcome
To the third part of my India summer 2015 series.
I flew into Mumbai on Jet Airways, a reasonable flight. That was followed by a slightly underwhelming flight on Vistara to New Delhi. In this part, I catch Boeing's next-gen wide body.
INTRODUCTION
Every time I think 'Delhi to Kolkata' (or vice versa), I always have one thing popping up in my mind: the Air India Boeing 787 flight between the two cities. These flights have certainly seemed to have done well for Air India!
Once in late 2013, big brother had to go to CCU, and I in fact sent him on the Air India Dream)liner (AI403/404), and he seemed to like it! For sure, I'm no stranger to the B787. And with the Durunto / Rajdhani trains taking a big chunk of time in my already tight schedule, the options were down to Go Air and Air India. On quick consultation from our in house AI-expert Sumantra sir, I reached this conclusion -
Go Air: new airline, first visit to T1D.
Air India: T3 international, CCU new international terminal, food, AI miles, the B787, and of course Boeing. 
So the choice was obvious 
WEB CHECK IN
Sitting behind the wing in my first B787 flight, I wanted to sit close to the front on the Dream)liner. I initially opted for seat 14A, the third row of Economy class. Once I was able to check in online, I selected seat 12J. I did the check in sat from Aditya’s house, since Air India allows web check in 48 hours before time. I was happy with the web check in process, no hitches. However, the lady is damn scary….
FAST FORWARD TO THE 13TH OF JULY 2015
I had planned to wake up at around 0700 hours to do some morning spotting of planes departing from runway 29. Breakfast at the fantastic Taj Vivanta Dwarka would be from 0700 hours to 1000 hours. The spotting part was down the drain because I woke up at 0845 hours…it was a rough day, the day before! I was awake for thirty hours the previous day, twenty four of which included 12th July 2015, in its entirety. My brother and I had a hearty breakfast, my plate was an absolute mess because I wanted to try a bit of everything!
A royal mess 
I was told that the morning Air India Delhi-Kolkata-Delhi wide body service was on a Boeing 777-200LR VT-ALG. Usually its this plane that heads back to Kolkata as AI20. I was calm. Boeing 787 or Boeing 777, it’d all be fine for me, as long as its a Boeing, a big Boeing.
Some spotting and packing happened, when my brother and I checked out, and 1100 hours. Check out was quick, where a chauffeur was arranged for us, to head to the Dwarka Sector 21 Airport Express station. This was complimentary, a wonderful stay with Vivanta had come to an end. The airport express, as always, was very convenient and we reached T3 at around 1130 hours. I bid adieu to my brother, I won’t be seeing him till December 2015 at least (Or so I thought!). I entered the impressive Terminal 3 building and headed straight for the Air India check in areas.
CHECK IN
There were some reasonably long check in lines, but most of them were for domestic flights (or international connectors). I joined in one of the lines that was dedicated for baggage drop. There were two ladies in front of me, who had plenty of bags to take to Mumbai, easily more than 30kgs combined. Anyway, their process was a bit slow. As always in Delhi, there was some drama happening as usual. A middle aged lady was yelling at the Air India check in staff because they weren’t allowing her to take her overweight bags, her justification being - she hasn’t seen her daughter in many days. Anyway, she was sent back as she talked to herself cussing the AI staff. Oh well.
My turn came, and the person manning the desk asked me to wait for a bit (in hindi), before he disappeared off. He returned after a while and tagged my bags, printed my boarding pass. I asked him if it was a Boeing 787, to which I got no reply. Ah well. Newspapers were available on the check in desks, which is always a nice touch!
Well, that's messed up
PSEUDO-IMMIGRATION, SECURITY CHECK, SPOTTING
Heading towards the international departures and immigration, I realized there were no customs declaration form that would usually be filled on these international connector flights. I went straight through to security which happened quickly. However, the person stopped me because my boarding pass wasn’t stamped. Be prepared for what you’re about to read: the nice CISF man (and lady, at the baggage screening) told me to go back to the immigration area, in the left corner there will be a person stamping all boarding passes for domestic Air India flights. She asked me to return to counter number 8. I ran back and got the necessary stamping done, security check done, the CISF man wished me a pleasant flight. Good stuff.
And there I was, entering the Delhi Duty Free area. What a spread there was! There was also a new Absolut Vodka India Edition which looked lovely in the way it was kept! I went through the duty free area, and arrived airside, there were so many people going to different parts of the world…and here I was heading for Kolkata
This looked pretty interesting! 
Delhi DDF!
I saw some of the planes that were parked, close to the food court area -VT-ANJ was just pulling in, operating a rather late AI114 from Birmingham, and later heading to Amritsar. VT-ANP had arrived from Paris Charles D’Gaulle as AI142 was preparing to head to Amritsar (!!) as AI462. VT-ALM, a lovely Boeing 777-300ER was taking a long rest after flying in from London Heathrow, and would then operate the domestic leg of the AI127 Chicago-Delhi-Hyderabad route. Another Boeing 787, VT-ANN was just there…having operated AI404 from Bengaluru the previous night.
I headed for the gates and all. There were not too many exotic stuff around at the time, just a Virgin Atlantic Boeing 787-9 to London Heathrow, a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 737-800 to Kuala Lumpur and a Pakistan International Airlines A320 to Karachi. Other Indian stuff included two more Air India Boeing 787-8s (VT-ANE to Shanghai heavily delayed and VT-ANR to Birmingham), and a VT-JFL operating the flight to Kathmandu.
More parking next to the parked aircraft 
Parked in the remote bays close to what was Terminal 2, was an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 767-300 ET-AMF, and Air India’s then newest Boeing 787-8, VT-ANV.
One end of the terminal - yep, I walked a lot!
It was around 1250 hours when I finished going around the entire terminal and sat down at a restaurant, called Cafeccino. Behind me was a Jet Airways Boeing 777-300ER, VT-JEQ was flying to London Heathrow. I ordered a chicken tikka roll with a bottle of Nimbuzz which was fairly reasonable.
What a beautiful plane she is!
The Virgin Atlantic Boeing 787-9 pushed back and slowly taxied for departure. Preceding this was VT-ANE’s delayed departure to Shanghai, succeeding it was VT-ANR’s departure to Birmingham. There was too much of B787 happening, I was overjoyed to see the B777 to London Heathrow push back and depart. My God the GE90 engines on the 777 sounded fantastic!
VT-ANE to PVG
Everybody loves to see a Boeing 777-300ER pushed back!
A gate change announcement was made for my flight: we were initially assigned Gate 11 where VT-ANG was parked. However, it was changed to Gate 1, where VT-ANT was parked. VT-ANT, on the day of flying was 0.6 years old, the 250th Boeing 787 ever built.
I headed for Gate 1 by 1352 hours. I was shocked to see that the flight was delayed by half an hour. Boarding time was 1325, nothing was happening. I reached the desk and asked if there was a delay, to which the person said - no delays, the flight is on time. What even. A full B787 cannot be loaded in 20 minutes! Plus, even the FIDs say that the flight is delayed. Sigh.
I absolutely love Delhi T3!
Raise the whaaaaa..?
Delayed 
BOARDING
At 1405 hours, ten minutes before our scheduled departure time, a delay of 20-25 minutes was announced owing to shortage of crew. However, this was also the boarding announcement, and this was started as row-wise boarding for us humble Y folk, while the Executive class and *A top tier members were requested to board whenever they wished. It started off with rows 30-39. Me being in row 12, I had time. Meanwhile, some passengers for the upcoming Emirates flight at the same gate also started to arrive, creating some confusion….
Here's what I do not like about Delhi - spotting at the gates is nearly impossible
I made my way towards ANT, as I saw VT-JEQ finally take off, about 40 minutes late! A traditional namaskar warm welcome onboard, I took my seat 12J, facing the pretty huge GEnx engines. Blue mood lighting was on for boarding, while all window shades were in its darkest shade. Boarding was slowly completing, however, the middle seat in part remained empty which was awesome. A middle aged lady took the aisle seat, curiously, she put her legs on the seat to put her bags into the overhead bin. I asked her if I could help, she said she’d manage. Oh well then
My second Dream)liner flight....excitement was as high as the first, if not, higher!
My eighth time on a plane with Boeing Sky Interior (hey - it still counts! )
My throne - some slight grime on the seat covers which is absolutely a negative..
The GEnx!
Bright sunshine at 1430 hours - the Dream)liner's magic
Various videos were played: the Boeing 787-8 safety video (Hindi followed by English), the features of the Boeing 787-8 (Hindi only), a Star Alliance video (you’re one of 18000 departures daily…something like that), etc.
A word on the crew - they were what the majority of the forum call aunties, a very experienced crew were on our flight. Right from the greeting, to serving requests on the ground, whoever I saw, had a smile on their face. This felt like it came straight from their hearts, a personalized touch, something I was expecting on another airline. That said, some water had spilled on the galley floor, which was cleaned only by keeping some tissues on it which looked quite messy
NO NO ITS MY TOUCHSCREEN NOT YOURS!!!!! 
DEPARTURE
Captain asked for the doors to be armed at 1449 hours, pushback was at 1455, a full forty minutes after departure time. Both GEnx engines were brought into life. While they are quiet in cruise, they are pretty damn sweet on start up!
The pilots made a pretty quick taxi towards runway 29, the GEnx engines spooling up at times, it sounded beautiful!
We lined up with runway 29, and silently blasted off the Earth to make course towards the east, Kolkata.
Ready or not, all systems go!
INFLIGHT
Announcements were made for the upcoming lunch service, I was looking forward to this. We reached our cruising altitude of 41000 feet pretty quickly. The window shades were automatically dimmed to the lowest setting for the rest of the flight. My IFE remote control was not working, meaning that my light and flight attendant call wasn’t working. This didn’t make any difference to me since the touch screen was working perfectly and I was flying to Kolkata, not Sydney.
Oh nooooO!
1529 hours, some lovely smells filled the cabin and this was even better since I was right next to the galley! The mood lighting was set to a lovely sunset red color (which wasn’t required, it was bright and sunny outside haha ) One meal trolley was rolled from the front galley. The lady beside me went for the non-vegetarian option, just like me. However, some how, some of the contents spilled out of the meal containers which created a messy tray and a messy cup for her. The flight attendant apologized for this, and instantly got some tissue papers to take matters into her hands. Mind you, all of this was with a wonderful smile.
I got my meal tray. I was super excited for this. To the left was some rather nice looking dessert, in the middle was freshly cut veggies, and to the right a cup with a fresh bread on top of it. The main course simply was just what I wanted: my favorite Indian meal! Butter chicken, with some tender flavorful pieces, and a rich gravy to along with it, jeera rice that was cooked in some oil but not too overly oily, and black dal which was just simply awesome! Now, on to the dessert, which is quite possibly the best I've had since 2005 (on Kingfisher Airlines). The yellow stuff was some custard, with some cottage cheese based dessert hiding underneath it, and below that, some fruits which truly was AMAZING. No other word for it! And once again, I was left very impressed with an Air India meal.
What an amazing meal!
Halfway there!
The flight went on without much ado, just got up once to get my stuff from above because I couldn't do much with the IFE anyways. I listened to some music from my laptop, photography was out of the question since the windows had the strange tint to it, sigh. The Captain came over the PA as we flew over Lucknow, he gave some nice information and the flight. He estimated an arrival time of 1655 hours, a whole 35 minutes late. I had nothing to worry about since I didn't have another flight to follow......
Flying into the Indian monsoon - scary for others, pure joy for us!
DESCENT AND ARRIVAL
Descent started at around 1627 hours, as we rapidly got closer to Kolkata and Earth. The Star Alliance video was once again played while the window shades were brought back to its brightest shade - no tint. Once again, the huge windows on the B787 is truly fantastic!
Flying over the great river Hooghly
The reflection of ANT's fuselage!
ANT lined up with runway 19L, and she was kinda 'thrown' onto the runway - it wasn't the best of landings but neither was the worst I've experienced. An announcement was made - we'd like to thank you to choose Air India as the airline of your choice (or something like that..). Ummm, I'm sorry, but the Boeing 787 was the aircraft of my choice  :lol:We taxied to the international terminal, and parked at one of the gates at the curve of the integrated terminal.
I saw VT-JGJ parked right beside. Doors disarmed, it was time to get off and head for the arrivals.
One last view of the wing and the GEnx!
VT-SCA, in its short lived IC livery was parked, while VT-SCC was in the hangar.
At immigration, all of us had to show our boarding passes no less than three times to prove that we aren't on the flight from Kathmandu, but in fact from Delhi on AI20. Both flights had come in around the same time (my AI20 late and the KTM AI248 early), so both of our flights were assigned the same baggage claim belt: number 1. A fully loaded 787 and a fully loaded small Airbus meant that there were easily more than 300 people waiting to get their bags. A smile on face appeared when I saw some fragile tags of a certain airline called Mihin Lanka!
I found my Mum and headed towards a district close to the airport. However, we missed a turn and had to head back to the airport only, which meant seeing something with Mamata Banerjee in it......
After all the flying around, it was time to finally settle down and take a breather for the next 4 days, before I found another Boeing flight to get on........
Regards
Jish
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Is AI the only operator of B787 in India?
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Jishnu,
All were going well until I reached the end of your TR and see the picture of sari-clad Mamata Bannerjee wishing happy journey to commuters. Why these spineless morons have to wish citizens at each and every corner, from each and every hoarding with "Happy Journey" or "Happy DurgaPuja" or "Happy whatever".! As if the long term pain they inflict (with wrong policies etc) on common man is not enough!
This March when I was in Calcutta, I noticed all new bus stops or any public place for that matter are having permanent propaganda inscribed on the wall: This Bus shelter is made available to you (poor voters) by your local kind-hearted MLA and of course the CM's picture is just next in a bigger frame.
These morons give you a feeling as if they have paid for those structures and they have a birthright to inscribe their names. I hope Bengal is an exception, other parts of India do not follow beloved Didi or the Communists before her.
End of my ranting, now get back to your TR:
AI 20 is indeed a very pleasant experience as you have rightly pointed that out. Best available aircraft, decent food. AI beats competition in this sector with this aircraft/product hands down.
What would be transfer Pax count, any guess? When I took AI 20 couple of years back connecting from CDG, there were not many transfer Passesgers. I hope that has improved.
Picture of VS 787-900 is awesome! Very nice TR!
Thanks Jishnu.
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Great TR JBALONSO777!!!!
Loved the meal pics. I happened to fly the same day on the return flight AI 701. Luckily there wasn't a tint on my window. The videos became a pain at one point of time. Because the English safety video wasn't completed, we were made to hold for a little longer at the threshold of 19L at CCU. Also,I it's odd that I didn't have to go through the immigration stuff. at CCU or T3 DEL.
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Yet another lovely TR, Jishnu: thank you!
| jbalonso777 wrote: | | I was happy with the web check in process, no hitches. However, the lady is damn scary…. |
Your IGIA DEL T3 experience for AI 020 was deja vu for me, including the sights, sounds (and smells, of course ). I never seem to get enough of it in spite of having done this route many times.
| jbalonso777 wrote: | | ...Absolut Vodka Indian Edition |
And they show a three-wheeler autorickshaw beside it. Drinking and driving...the irony!
| jbalonso777 wrote: | | there were so many people going to different parts of the world…and here I was heading for Kolkata |
This is the part I find most exciting: getting an `international' experience on a domestic wide-body flight!
| jbalonso777 wrote: | | VT-ALM, a lovely Boeing 777-300ER was taking a long rest after flying in from London Heathrow, and would then operate the domestic leg of the AI127 Chicago-Delhi-Hyderabad route. |
A typical swap: my guess is that the original AI 127 plane having done AI 127 ORD-DEL would now do AI 102 DEL-BOM, to rotate the plane through AI's BOM heavy engg base.
I feel a bit sad to see the VS B789, just to imagine how beautiful a B789 would have looked in the Air India colours!
The modified ad on the small baggage cart looked as awesome as it did that time on your WA group post!
DEL spotting at the gates: a few of them are around, which aren't too bad. I usually make a beeline for them.
Your Ai 020 experience looks by now, fairly standard: an occassional non-functioning IFE keypad, seat cover with grime, good service from the cabin crew (especially the senior ones), and grand food.
Just a minor typo at the beginning, Sir: AI 403/404 is the DEL-BLR/BLR-DEL service, currently often on a Dream)liner. You must have referred to AI 401/021 rotation. DEL-CCU/CCU-DEL, the morning flight, quite often on a Dream)liner; or the AI 020/701 DEL-CCU/CCU-DEL afternoon rotation. The 401/402/403/404 numbers are all `legacy' numbers from the Indian Airlines era, made popular by the A300 flights of the 1970s and 1980s.
Thank you once again for an entertaining read! We look forward to the next parts, with the usual eagerness.
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| sabya99 wrote: | | Is AI the only operator of B787 in India? |
Hi Sabya sir!
Err, I believe that is the case at the moment, until Jet gets their B787s!
| PAL@YWG wrote: | Jishnu,
All were going well until I reached the end of your TR and see the picture of sari-clad Mamata Bannerjee wishing happy journey to commuters. Why these spineless morons have to wish citizens at each and every corner, from each and every hoarding with "Happy Journey" or "Happy DurgaPuja" or "Happy whatever".! As if the long term pain they inflict (with wrong policies etc) on common man is not enough!
This March when I was in Calcutta, I noticed all new bus stops or any public place for that matter are having permanent propaganda inscribed on the wall: This Bus shelter is made available to you (poor voters) by your local kind-hearted MLA and of course the CM's picture is just next in a bigger frame.
These morons give you a feeling as if they have paid for those structures and they have a birthright to inscribe their names. I hope Bengal is an exception, other parts of India do not follow beloved Didi or the Communists before her. |
Hi Samir sir, great to hear form you! Very interesting views you have about Didi and her influence in West Bengal. To be honest, I haven't followed Indian politics as close as I have to Sri Lankan and UK politics (the latter because my A level subjects required it to be so!), but you're not alone - from what I have heard talking to the more elder Bengalis on this trip, most of them sounded unhappy. And I concur - seeing those weird posters saying this bus stop is brought to by...etc. etc... didn't feel good...
| PAL@YWG wrote: | | AI 20 is indeed a very pleasant experience as you have rightly pointed that out. Best available aircraft, decent food. AI beats competition in this sector with this aircraft/product hands down. |
Absolutely. And this is a very very popular flight as well! I wonder if this flight (along with the morning AI401 service) is what is keeping Vistara away from operating a DEL-CCU route...or maybe they just don't have the approvals and all yet....
| PAL@YWG wrote: | | What would be transfer Pax count, any guess? When I took AI 20 couple of years back connecting from CDG, there were not many transfer Passesgers. I hope that has improved. |
Once again I guess, not too many transfer pax by the looks of it! Of course, I did see some interesting routings (LOS being one!!!!) on the luggage tags, but most pax were from Delhi itself!
| PAL@YWG wrote: | Picture of VS 787-900 is awesome! Very nice TR!
Thanks Jishnu. |
And thank you for the lovely comments!
| dan wrote: | Great TR JBALONSO777!!!!
Loved the meal pics. I happened to fly the same day on the return flight AI 701. Luckily there wasn't a tint on my window. The videos became a pain at one point of time. Because the English safety video wasn't completed, we were made to hold for a little longer at the threshold of 19L at CCU. Also,I it's odd that I didn't have to go through the immigration stuff. at CCU or T3 DEL.
Cheers
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Hey Dan, thanks for your comments! Shucks, had I known earlier, we probably would've met up! Lucky you with no tint, I wonder what's up with this inconsistency! Oh wow - delaying an already delayed flight because of a video? Mystifying.
Yep, immigration stamp at DEL, and a quick check at CCU! And it got stronger in HYD, as you'll see soon....
| sumantra wrote: | | Yet another lovely TR, Jishnu: thank you! |
And thank you for yet another detailed response!
| sumantra wrote: | | Your IGIA DEL T3 experience for AI 020 was deja vu for me, including the sights, sounds (and smells, of course ). I never seem to get enough of it in spite of having done this route many times. |
The flight on AI20 has gone down as one of my favorite flights (up there with Emirates and Singapore Airlines flights!), and I can only dream to be on a repeat of it...as for you, you seem to experience is every now and then!
| sumantra wrote: | | And they show a three-wheeler autorickshaw beside it. Drinking and driving...the irony! |
Great observation, sir! I never saw it that way!
| sumantra wrote: | | This is the part I find most exciting: getting an `international' experience on a domestic wide-body flight! |
I was lucky to experience it a second time in the same trip...TR coming up soon!
| sumantra wrote: | | A typical swap: my guess is that the original AI 127 plane having done AI 127 ORD-DEL would now do AI 102 DEL-BOM, to rotate the plane through AI's BOM heavy engg base. |
Spot on sir! The ORD-DEL VT-ALT did head back to BOM as AI102!
| sumantra wrote: | | I feel a bit sad to see the VS B789, just to imagine how beautiful a B789 would have looked in the Air India colours! |
Jet will have them....soon enough...would've loved to see Air India have them too though...especially with better economics!
| sumantra wrote: | | The modified ad on the small baggage cart looked as awesome as it did that time on your WA group post! |
Your brief presence felt awesome...would love to see you back onboard once again there!
| sumantra wrote: | | Your Ai 020 experience looks by now, fairly standard: an occassional non-functioning IFE keypad, seat cover with grime, good service from the cabin crew (especially the senior ones), and grand food. |
Consistency is key...and AI are delivering (in the positive ways at least!)
| sumantra wrote: | | Just a minor typo at the beginning, Sir: AI 403/404 is the DEL-BLR/BLR-DEL service, currently often on a Dream)liner. You must have referred to AI 401/021 rotation. DEL-CCU/CCU-DEL, the morning flight, quite often on a Dream)liner; or the AI 020/701 DEL-CCU/CCU-DEL afternoon rotation. The 401/402/403/404 numbers are all `legacy' numbers from the Indian Airlines era, made popular by the A300 flights of the 1970s and 1980s. |
I knew something felt oh so wrong while typing the flight numbers, going through my brother's FFP records, it was in fact AI401 and AI20. He was pushed around because I didn't inform him of the international terminal and I got a royal blasting from him. He liked the 787 though....
| sumantra wrote: | Thank you once again for an entertaining read! We look forward to the next parts, with the usual eagerness.
Cheers, Sumantra. |
Thanks for your constant encouragement! I have slowed right down in writing TRs, and a backlog is here for me too!
Regards
Jish
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Thanks for the continuous story of your travels that brings us to chapter three with the 787 or 777 dilemma.
Some interesting conversation regarding excess luggage there. I recall once when I was checking in I had a lady ahead who was arguing that she is migrating to Australia hence the airline should allow her some extra fee luggage
Some great shots of Ethopian, Virgin atlantic and Kam Air.
The blue sky interior looks quite cool with the window shades dimmed, although I don’t like the part where the control is with the crew.
NO NO ITS MY TOUCHSCREEN NOT YOURS – That was humorous.
The food looks good and quite of an international standard, kudos to Air India on this front. The yellow stuff whatever you call it makes my mouth water….
Overall a great TR once again. |
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| sri_bom wrote: | | Thanks for the continuous story of your travels that brings us to chapter three with the 787 or 777 dilemma. |
And I'd like to thank you for taking the time to read this trip report!
Yes, the dilemma was there, but I was certain that a 787 would take me to Kolkata, because its the morning flight that is usually swapped. All's well ends well!
| sri_bom wrote: | | Some interesting conversation regarding excess luggage there. I recall once when I was checking in I had a lady ahead who was arguing that she is migrating to Australia hence the airline should allow her some extra fee luggage |
Wow, that is a valid reason
| sri_bom wrote: | | Some great shots of Ethopian, Virgin atlantic and Kam Air. |
Thank you so much!
| sri_bom wrote: | | The blue sky interior looks quite cool with the window shades dimmed, although I don’t like the part where the control is with the crew. |
True...it does help in daytime flights (the dimming windows), but when its controlled by the crew, not quite
| sri_bom wrote: | | NO NO ITS MY TOUCHSCREEN NOT YOURS – That was humorous. |
| sri_bom wrote: | | The food looks good and quite of an international standard, kudos to Air India on this front. The yellow stuff whatever you call it makes my mouth water…. |
Agreed on that. Props to AI for such a turnaround! How I wish I knew what the dessert was...I want one already!
Regards
Jish
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