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[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Atanu Dey, Chaitanya S. Chaitanya S said: RT @atanudey: Why are airport announcements so bloody retarded? http://bit.ly/gXACls [...]

By: Notsure

Notsure — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 04:49:33 +0000

RE…”I think not, as this happened even before 9/11″
LMAO on IGNORANCE.
A Gabbar imitating Paddar Khalsa did not board and guess what happened on kanishka,
WAY BEFORE 9-11.

By: AGWorld

AGWorld — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:47:58 +0000

All the behaviours are the direct outcome of a deeply ingrained “scarcity mentality”

A mentality that is based upon constantly having to struggle for insufficient resources, bringing out the worst behaviours in people in an endless zero sum game.

Thus people behave like hooligans and thugs everything — be it a seat on a bus, space on a road etc.
This is not unique to india — commuters in undergrounds do it too.
Indians, on the flip side, generally behave well when resources are plenty — the mumbai pune express way is a case in point (and one that atanu must have experienced).

Notch up one more corrosive behaviour to the nehruvian stalinists and their license raj.

By: mayuresh

mayuresh — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 06:17:34 +0000

One more thing with the personalized service.
If Mayuresh Gaikwad (or Atanu Dey or any other human being) does not reach his/her boarding gate on time despite the innumerable last and final calls, the airport staff sends runners looking for them all over the airport. Finally having identified them, they escort these people to the gate directly, sometimes without the irritating final checks at the boarding gate!

Sometimes I wonder why we need to introduce so much redundancy in our systems, where your boarding pass is checked by ~ 10 different people stationed at different points in the route from the airport entrance to your seat in the aircraft. Scare of hijackers and bombs? I think not, as this happened even before 9/11

By: pankaj

pankaj — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 04:42:48 +0000

One more thing to add which i find very foolish in indian airports is “final call for flight no abcd1234″ announced several times .but having said that i enjoy indian airports they are hilarious because of us indians, foreign airports like Changi,JFK are boring as they are well organised.

By: chaitanya

chaitanya — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 02:47:54 +0000

I hear you man. Common sense is the most commonly lacking sense. My own pet peeve is about unnecessary honking. Why do people honk when the traffic stopped at Red ? And, why do people honk immediately after the signal goes green, even though the people in front already started moving ? I read somewhere that this kind of abrasive noise increases blood pressure and heart rate. I have no doubt about that .. it keeps the body in a stressful state (perhaps it keeps sympathetic nervous signals activated ?), which has its own health side effects.

My common workaround is to use cotton earplugs .. but i keep forgetting to carry them. I have to make it a habit to carry them in my wallet.

By: Notsure

Notsure — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:59:24 +0000

The only time they would announce that if if MrGupta has checked his baggage.
Otherwise they dont care if Guptas on board or not.
Its a concern b/c Gupta may have gone to a Gupt location leaving Gu on board thats checked in to explode in mid air.

By: kaunteya

kaunteya — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:23:40 +0000

Yep absolute and unnecessary noise pollution at airports.

Also one another thing I observed. Not sure if it is still done.

Airports in India give personal service. For instance “Last and Final call from Mr.Gupta. Your flight XYZ is about to leave. Please report to the gate immediately…”

“mr.Gupta we are waiting for you…”

Mr. Gupta get lost… (i think that wud help)

By: JanSan

JanSan — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:45:28 +0000

Still, aviation, among a few other things in India has come a long way in just a few years. Besides, everything (almost) in India “malfunctions” because Desis are in-charge. Sad but true.