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- From: vijay@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Vijay Rangarajan)
- Subject: Re: Bad experience on Malaysia Airlines
- References: <1eeoalINNl9v@uwm.edu> <1992Nov19.175107.9090@doug.cae.wisc.edu> <1992Nov20.031117.22136@athena.cs.uga.edu>
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- Originator: vijay@picard.ncsa.uiuc.edu
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- Organization: Nat'l Ctr for Supercomp App (NCSA) @ University of Illinois
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 15:32:43 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov20.031117.22136@athena.cs.uga.edu> venugop@athena.cs.uga.edu (ABDUL PETER IYENGAR) writes:
- >
- >MS Aruna Mahadevan thinks like most Indians abroad do,A couple of
- >trips between here and India and they nominate themselves as members of the
- >elite jetsetting club and expect the air hostess and stewards to wait hand
- >and foot on them.Apart from getting your meals on time and soft drinks or
- >liquor which they promptly do are they supposed to to a song and dance
-
- Not at all, contrary to exaggerations above, both Aruna's article and the
- follow up were focused on inconveniences experienced, as opposed to lack
- of servile treatment.
-
- >How many of us can maintain a consistent face with the hundreds of
- >different people with their different peculiarities and whims and fancies.
-
- The dissatisfaction, arising of a four day journey to India, delays not
- nullified by hotel reservations or in the very least provision of alternate
- connecting flight information, etc., is not peculiar, fancy or whimsical
- even if one doesn't factor out the obnoxious levels of service depicted
- in your comment, not alluded to by any posting on the topic.
-
- >It is like discussing poverty in a five star hotel.
-
- ?
-
- Vijay.
-
- P.S. I've excluded rec.travel, the note is more pertinent to Indians than
- travel in general.
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-