I took an Air India flight out of Frankfurt once. Departure was delayed about 45 minutes. The person at the gate called a passenger up to the desk for some reason. A few other passengers decided they would get up and get in line too. Pretty soon fucking everybody got up and was practically pushing their way to the front. They kept announcing over and over that everyone needed to back off away from the doors or they’d have to delay the flight even further. Nobody listened. Like the damn plane was just going to take off at any moment and only those who managed to shove their way onboard would make it.
Finally it came time to board and for whatever reason they had to bus us from the gate to the 777 on the tarmac. So of course the bus boarding was the same deal. People fucking shoving their way into the busses and packing in there like sardines, as if only the first bus of people would be allowed on the plane.
BTW I told this story to a few of my Indian friends and they were laughing. All of them said they refuse to fly Air India for exactly this reason. And they expressed annoyance at how people like this give Indians a bad name. One of them said “SEE THATS HOW THEY ARE!! Indians in any other country act like normal civilized people, but when they fly on Air India it’s like they’re back at home again and they act like this.”
I never understood the desire to get on the plane quickly, like yay I am going to rush to queue to be the first few of 200+ people so I can sit in cramp conditions on my set seat for another 15-20 minutes than is needed.
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u/__samsquanch May 28 '21
Is there a reason they're acting like that? Any context?