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Written by Shirley T
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Friday, 11 July 2008 22:09 |
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 Folks...have you ever got into a wrong bus? Or take a wrong train? Or perhaps, board on a wrong plane?
It was about boarding time but I was still busy browsing at the duty free shops at Penang Airport. I knew I would be the last few in a long queue. For AirAsia, a budget airline based in Malaysia, seating arrangement is based on the first come first serve basis. Nevertheless, thanks to the airline for the last minute changed of boarding gate from Gate 12A to Gate 14 which allowed me to be the first in the queue. After our boarding pass was checked, we had to walk down by staircase to an open landing area and climbing up another mobile staircase to get into the aircraft instead of an aerobridge assisting the walkway.
I was lucky to grab the front seats by the window, in fact the third row from the front exit door and right behind the cockpit. After all the passengers had got seated, I overheard a conversation between a ground crew and a cabin crew. The ground crew said, "Total is 62" but the cabin crew replied, "I counted, there are 63 here". They exchanged a strange look in a slightly tensed air. Then, the cabin crew decided to recount again. At the same time, another cabin crew made an announcement stating that our flight would be going to Bangkok and landing at Suvarnabhumi airport. Nobody gave any signal indicating they were on the wrong flight. At the same time, two cabin crews were performing the counting again, one from front and another one started from behind. Both of them said the same "63" again! So they had no choice but to make an announcement that the air stewardess would perform boarding pass check. Everybody on the plane took out their boarding pass and very soon somewhere in the middle row near the emergency door, a man stood up. The cabin crew then led him to collect his belongings and walked him out from the aircraft. It seemed that the man was supposed to board FireFlyz to Kuching! Fireflyz is a twin propellers driven aircraft. Again, I got to know by eaves dropping the conversation among the cabin crews.
I guess, that was the fun of sitting in front, getting the first hand information and juicy news!!!
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