The Thrill of It

Karan’s first real interactions with airlines happened once he started earning. His first job at Siemens India gave him his first opportunity to travel abroad (Germany). It was perhaps the most exciting moment in his life then. So much so, that Karan decided to take his newly married wife along with him and extend a business trip to a vacation. It was during this trip he toured Germany, France, Switzerland and Italy. After spending five years at Siemens, Karan shifted to Yahoo India. During these five years he had one more opportunity to fly to Germany.

Good food, warm personalized service and in-flight entertainment are some of the things that excite him in the air. As per his designation, Karan is yet to be entitled for business class tickets. So, getting pampered in a business class, while traveling abroad is still one of his wishful longings.

With rising cost of air travel, all organizations (including Yahoo) are putting a cap on foreign trips. Increasingly, people are depending on technology (Skype, tele-conferencing etc) to avoid these costs. But in his line of field, he has to make off-shore trips to the US, because training is something that cannot be handled off-location. However, he feels that in the coming days, his traveling will be reduced from once in three months to two trips in a year. He is mournful about this.

Quoting Leonardo Da Vinci, he said, “When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.”

The thrill of air travel will never be out of vogue, no matter how many times you have traveled.

POSTED BY AYAN BANIK, SAATCHI & SAATCHI, INDIA, NEW DELHI