The day of my trip started off nice. Didn’t have to be a the airport until about 2pm. Had to do some shopping before I left so ran around to a few stores. Added bonus: I found a cool travel Ipod thingy. It’a a travel alarm that has a dock for my ipod, has a sleep function, and lets me hook it up to a TV so I can watch the movies on a TV instead of the itty bitty screen on the ipod.
Got to the airport a little early, got to the self checkin screen and it tells me there is a problem please see someone at the counter. Went to the counter the screen told me to and they said “OH!! you need to go down that that line way down there. Now I’m getting a little nervous. When I get to the frount of the line the lady says “your plan has been delayed, not sure you can make your connecting flight.” 
Then she says “there is an earlier flight we may be able to get you on.” I was already booked in business class on my flight but will have to go on the waiting list on the new flight. Well, turns out I do get on the earlier flight and do get business class, so everything turned out good.
The next flight turns out to be delayed for 15 mins. No big deal. We board and I’m in a row that is full, shoulder to shoulder. So I look around and find an empty row so I move to that row and sit in the middle. Turns out there are about 30 folks that are running late from another flight so we all wait for about 30 mins just sitting in the plain.
Turns out my empty row get’s full from the people running late, so I look and find another empty row so I sit in the middle of that row. Well, we pull away from the gate and I still have the row to my self! WOOOO HOOO.
The plan pulls back about 20 ft and then stops. The someone announces there is a traffic jam behind the plane so we will have to wait for a bit. About 40 mins later the plane starts moving again. About 10 mins later there is another announcements “there is another traffic jam” About 1 hr later we finally take off.
Considering it was a 16 hr flight that took actually took more like 20 hrs, this was a nice flight. I got to lay down across the sits and slept. Not at all comfortable, but a heck of a lot better than having to sit in the chairs. Watched 4 movies that I had not seen yet and the last movie finished within 5 mins of landing.
The flight was due in at 10pm, It was more like 2:00am. I got out of the airport at about 2:30am. The driver took me to my hotel, and arranged to pick me up the next morning to take me to Pune and left.
I got up to the front desk and it turned out I’m at the wrong hotel. (by now it’s just funny). So I get a taxi to take me to the correct hotel, check in and head to bed.
LONG DAY!!!!
