Thai Airways Flight to Bangkok - How it is important to listen first and then act. OR How to sue an Airline

Passenger: Can i have a glass of water please
Air-hostess: Yes Sir, I'll be back

15 minutes later---air hostess gives passenger half a glass of liquid. Passenger touches the glass to his lips (barely has a sip)

Passenger: what is this?? what is this i ask you?
Air hostess: It is Vodka Sir

(this is when i removed my earphones so i could discreetly listen to the rest of the conversation)

Passenger: I did not ask for Vodka, i asked for Water. Go get me some water now !!!
Air Hostess: Ooh, i am so sorry sir, i thought you said vodka
Passenger: Quickly QUICKLY, get me some water now

20 minutes later, passenger complains to another air hostess who he assumes to be the senior one

Passenger: I had asked for water, and your friend bought me vodka.
Air Hostess: Oh I'm so sorry sir, are you ok now
Passenger: No i am not feeling well, i need a tablet -some medicine
Air Hostess: No no sir, i think you just have some more WATER and you will be fine

(goes to get more water.. and that how it continued the rest of the flight)
All this over one tiny tiny sip of vodka... if it wasn't early morning, i would have offered to finish it for him and get them all to shut up

I think Thai airways should be expecting a claim sometime soon

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Air India? By bus or plane?

Another Air India Story this.. but then again, with an awesome carrier like this one you know there will always be there stories...
Return flight from Mumbai to Singapore... Obviously being Air India, we don't just board the plane, but have to take a bus to it.. Yes, even for international flights...
The idea of taking a bus to take a plane always fascinates me... well not really, not the actual doing, its just the concept of it that is so amusing
So all of us already weary passengers wait and wait and wait some more for any announcement of when boarding will begin.. it is 12:20 already and nothing so far for our flight that is supposed to take off at 12:45
Then they begin shoving us into the buses to get to the plane.. All in, the bus takes off for a 7 min ride around the airport.. Bus stops, people get off and walk towards the plane... Steward standing at the base of the steps looks at the first passenger's ticket, then looks around.. looks some more, confused... and says:
"But you're going to Singapore and this flight is for Mangalore !!"
Sigh
And so on we go the bus again.. for a 15 minute bus ride this time..round and round the airport, till they FINALLY find our plane to Singapore.. by the time we're getting into the aircraft it is already 12:45, but then again.. it wouldn't be Air India if it actually took off on time !!

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Air India !!!

This one was a blog story in the making right from the time we booked our flights to Mumbai on Air India.
My second flight on Air India ever and I was completely nervous expecting horrendous 5 and a half hours of nightmares.. but it was a pretty good flight.. The Air Hostesses had the "ask me for help and I’m throwing you off the plane" look, but were surprisingly nice for the expressions on their face (well, some people have faces like that, they just can’t help it).
The food was good, an amazingly smooth flight, we didn’t even realise when we took off or landed (partly to do with the fact that we took off so damn late, but then this was Air India, some things you just assume will happen)

Anyway, so we hear this old lady ahead of us ask the air hostesses for a "shawl" (or blanket, however you wanna call it)
Air hostess passes by a while later and gives her something.
20 minutes after that is this conversation with another air hostess -

Air Hostess: " Aunty, sab theek hai na. You need anything"
Old Lady: " Nahi, theek hai"
Air Hostess: "Achcha. Lekin aapko Salt kyo chahiye tha?"
Old Lady: "Nahi Ji, Maine Salt nahi Shawl maanga tha"

Oh well..

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