Haunted hotels, stinking cabs: Pilots' woes

Chennai: Pilots have to outmanoeuvre not just the tricky weather in air, but deal with unfriendly terra firma as well. Their woes on landing at a different station are endless.
“Bad cabs and hotel rooms are a pilot’s biggest despair in any station. A prominent hotel in Chennai has these really hollow walls so much so that an expatriate pilot complained that he could literally hear people having sex in the next room which didn’t allow him to sleep. He finally had to complain and the hotel authorities had a tough time moving the party to another room,” a popular domestic airline source said.
In another incident, the hotel’s laundry misplaced a pilot’s uniform, including his shirt, trousers, underwear and socks, delaying him for an early morning flight. The pilot complained helplessly as he was carrying no spare clothes.
An Air India pilot said a particular hotel in Dubai was said to have ‘ghosts’ in some rooms as it was built on a land that used to house a hospital.
Kingfisher Airlines’ pilots put up at a prominent hotel in Nungambakkam recently complained that in the process of demolishing the illegal front portion of the hotel, they tossed and turned in their bed all night owing to the constant battering.
24/10/10 Mamta Todi/ExpressBuzz

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Categories: Indian Aviation- In General Oct 2010