My flight experiences

I hope everyone would ve had a dream in childhood to fly in an aeroplane. Even I had that dream. While playing with neighbourhood children we used to shout that 'hey whites are going' whenever we saw the flight. But my mom made me clear that even our Indians can fly. So I ve developed a dream of flying. But I didnt get chance till last year.

My dream came true in the beginning of this year. My cousin wanted to go to Hyderabad to meet his friend and asked were we interested to accompany him. Since we hadnt been to any city in Andhra except Thirupathi said yes to him.

That time I ve seen an ad from airdeccan for low cost flight. So searched for the fare and we were lucky to get Rs 2 tickets + taxes. It costs around Rs 10000 for all the four of us, me, my husband, my son and my cousin for a round trip.

Excited about my first flying experience we had been to airport. Since my cousin had flied many times officially he knows the airport formalities and taught me also. Got the boarding pass, checked in luggages and had some cabin baggages. Waited on the launch for the call for us to boarding. We got a call for boarding and got into the bus towards the plane. I was little disappointed at the size of the flight, it was very small. Atlast stepped into the flight and got a window seat :)

The airhostess was giving instructions and the flight took off. I was trying to locate some landmarks from flight and could identify only ISKCON. It was not flying so high so we could see roads and land down below. When the captain announced that we were flying above puttaparthy and i could see the runway of puttaparthy airport. Soon we reached Hyderabad. The long awaited trip came to an end. But I felt there was no difference between the travel by a volvo bus and a flight except for the flight. If we just and sit and close our eyes it is similar to bus travel. The return journey was in the night and couldnt see anything.

The second trip was to Delhi in October. I went to Delhi in last october with my mom and son. My husband couldnt come that time. I wanted to visit kulu and manali that time itself but couldnt go. So this time we planned to go there. Even my aunts wanted to come with us. Our actual plan was going by train. But since my grandma was not well they withdrew from the trip. We were in a dilemma whether to go or not. That time spicejet had announced Rs 999 ticket to Delhi. So planned to go by spicejet this time and booked the tickets. The airfare was nearly doubled that of Hyderabad.

This time only we three of us, my cousin didnt come with us. With the previous experience we finished all the formalities and boarded. This time the flight was boeing i thing. Since it was night flight we couldnt see anything outside. But return flight was in the afternoon and was very nice. While returning it was delayed by an hour. The captain told we were flying 40000 feet above sea level. We were flying above the clouds. I could see clouds only everywhere. It was so amazing. I just wished that i could jump out of the plane and walk on the clouds :) (my husband said he would have been happy if i had done that)

The third flight experience was unexpected one. Last monday one of my aunts had visited us in bangalore. It was around 2 30 in the afternoon we had the news that my grandmother had passed away. Aunt started crying a lot and we couldnt console her. So my cousin asked me to take her to Madurai by flight. It was around 3 o clock. I searched for the flight online and luckily we got a flight at 5 10 Booked the tickets online and rushed to the airport. We reached there by 4 15 and we had one hour to take off. For my aunt it was the first time. She had forgot her grief and immersed in the new environment. We waited and i was searching for our flight on the display. It showed it was delayed by an hour. I was worrying about my aunt whether she would start crying again but she had controlled herself. Atlast around 6 05 we got the call for boarding. Finally the flight took off around 6 30 and we reached madurai at 7 30.

God has fulfilled my dream in this year three times. :) so far I had only domesting flight experiences. I am looking forward for a international flight experience. Hope that will also come true soon :)