This April I finally did the unthinkable, I decided to travel via air India from LAX to DELHI. I had a 1 year old baby and I thought may be the direct flight by Air India will be good for us...Alas, I was so wrong.
My trip started on saturday, 11 AM April 12th (Pacific time) and was supposed to reach Delhi by monday morning. I had a connecting flight from Delhi to Ranchi the same day on 14th April and was supposed to reach my hometown by 5 PM same day.
My whole vacation was for around a month and I was supposed to return back on 12th May..
On 12th of April, we reached LAX airport at 1 PM (flight was at 4PM). We waited in the line for an hour or so..and then finally someone from air India shows up and says "The flight has been delayed till tomorrow 8AM. We are trying to put all the passengers in some other airlines". ok..that’s great. We waited for another 1 hour and then one more announcement "No seats are available in any other airline. We will put you in near by hotel. We will arrange for the pickup and drop off".
We were almost realizing our mistake of having tried Air India..But then we thought anyway just for 14 hours...We waited for Air India bus to arrive, then someone mentioned there is no Air India bus but we will have to take the Hotel Complimentary bus service..Unfortunately, there was lot of rush and it took us 3 hours to hop on to the bus (with a crying baby and lots of luggage)..Anyway, we reached hotel and heaved a sigh of relief..Next morning just before going to airport, I decided to call Air India again...and to my horror they said "sir, the plane is delayed for another 12 hours. The flight will now start at 10 PM in the night". I immediately decided to cancel my ticket and get into some other airline..
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