On turning left

Years back, I heard radio "personality" Chris Moyles recounting how great it is to turn left when boarding a plane. Or in other words, go to business or first class rather than cattle class.

Whenever Jen travels to Australia, she travels either business or first class, so we thought to celebrate our retirement we would travel business when we went to India.

I guess not all business and first class sections are the same, so this post applies to Air India's business class.

Upon entering, our seats were covered in blankets, sheets, slippers, another blanket and other stuff.

Which is nice.

But too much.

We had a drink upon sitting down, a hot towel.

There was a menu card and a drinks/bar menu card too. I was expecting wine, for example, to come in either a bottle or mini bottle, rather than just a glass. But the wine with dinner came in a glass, and staff were so poorly trained and haphazerd, that it took half an hour to flag a stewardess down to refil my glass, and dinner itself took the best part of two hours to serve, a third of the flight.

And then it way too hot to sleep.

Four hours later we were woken up for breakfast.

On top of that, we had access to the United (I think it was), and access to two Air India lounge on the journey back.

On the plus side, the huge screen for the TV made watching films enjoyable. But the pod was out of alignment for my legs to be able to lay down and sleep.

What do you expect for six grand? Well, beter service.

Saying that, service was better on the trip back.