Hey my first air travel happened to be an international travel with connecting flight at Singapore and destination china. I got bombarded with all kinds of experiences. I am sharing those with you.
I started Sat afternoon. a white ford fiesta came at my home to drop me at airport. laaj watali swatachi :) :) I do not deserve such a luxury. I went inside airport at 6 pm and my flight was at 00:30 am. I had started early since there was heavy raining on that day. First off all i just roamed around airport baggage check in area. At that time few security guards were roaming around. After some time an announcement was done few times saying that , a black hand bag is found near immigration area plz contact Airport in charge. No one came. Now security guards vacated the area kept sand bags around that bag. I was wondering what will happen now. After 15-20 mins Bomb Disposal squad came and they started there operation. Initially i found all these events interesting but in last few minutes I was very afraid. Specially when Bomb Disposal team was opening that bag with there suit similar to astronauts. Finally there was nothing in bag.
I started procedure of luggage check in at 8 pm and was done by 9. I found the security system at Bombay airport awesome. Every minor details were being examined. After personal security check was over. I had to spend 2 1/2 hours before boarding would have started. Renovation on mumbai airport is going on. So some part of airport has become world class. I thought wow this is a beautiful airport. Singapore madhe shabda mage :)
ok now boarding, I never saw airoplane from outside since it was night. I directly entered the aircraft. Business class seats looked awesome. Unwillingly I moved to economy class area. Since i had taken my boarding pass Early I got nice seats for both flights. Bom to Singapore and Singapore to shanghai. Both seats were window seats near wings. Singapore airlines Wow...... I dont have exp of other airlines but i dont think service to ticket price ratio will be better than this. There was a small TV infront of each seat. with collection of movies , audio, flight info etc etc. Air hostesses were smart and cute :).
First take off experience my life. after plane just left ground i looked around me in plane and i looked back again though window and I was shocked How the hell we came so high. Mumbai looks awesome from sky in night. After that there was nothing to look out side . I started watching movies.
Woke up because some light coming from window. I Iooked outside window.. Wow what a view !!!!! There was no cloud above plane. Far away I was seeing one more plane a very tiny toy plane. I just checked height on Flight info screen. It was 11000 meter. and plane was rock steady. This is called engineering and not what I am doing. Outside view was just awesome clear blue sky and patially cloudy other blue background below. Sun was just rising. It was awesome sunrise I had ever seen in my life. I checked out side air temp on screen it was -30 degree celcius. Just imagine kind of requirements elex and mech engineers of that plane would have got. Pilot some anna person shridharan said that we will be landing soon. Now as plane started descending though clouds i was able to see a constant flow of condensed water on wings. At the time of landing I thought how the hell Pilot controls his plane. Its a tough job. Not a easy job despite of those hi-fi electronic control system. Surely not an easy job.
Just got out of the plane and entered Singapore Airport. I was nice sunny morning. Now my paradigm of good airport was totally shifted. This airport is even better than Shanghai airport. Its a huge airport 25 gates on A side of terminal. I dont know how many other terminals are there. Its huge. Very few people were at airport. I looked at other people on airport. I thought hey I am in india. At an airport facility I used to see atleast half the employees of indian origin or may be Indian also. Right from people who keep airport clean to Security check personnel. Half of the people around me were indians. I was very comfortable.
Ok now you must have got bored after reading so much lines. I'll stop writing now. I'll write again tomorrow. Bye .