Well-known sarod player and son of legendary Ustad Amjad Ali Khan — Amaan Ali — had a harrowing experience at aba Saheb Ambedkar International Airport, Nagpur, recently. He narrated his woes in a chat with Nagpur Times.
There is anguish in Amaan's voice as he shares: "I performed at a concert in Nagpur on Thursday and reached Nagpur airport at 6 am on Friday morning (February 26) to board a 7.30 am flight to Delhi. The rule states that the airline counter is closed one hour before the departure, but I was appalled to see that no staffer was there at the airline's counter till one hour before the departure. World over, the rule is that airline staffers have to be available two hours before the flight. But it is not practiced at Nagpur. When the staffers finally sleepwalked, their attitude towards the passengers was humiliating. What hurt me the most was that there were senior citizens in wheelchairs who had spent a lot of money to travel by air and there was no attendant from the airline to help them. There were foreigners who would have carried a sad image along."
To rub salt to the injury, the staffers were quite callous towards his instrument, states Amaan.
28/02/16 Vinita Chaturvedi/Times of India
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There is anguish in Amaan's voice as he shares: "I performed at a concert in Nagpur on Thursday and reached Nagpur airport at 6 am on Friday morning (February 26) to board a 7.30 am flight to Delhi. The rule states that the airline counter is closed one hour before the departure, but I was appalled to see that no staffer was there at the airline's counter till one hour before the departure. World over, the rule is that airline staffers have to be available two hours before the flight. But it is not practiced at Nagpur. When the staffers finally sleepwalked, their attitude towards the passengers was humiliating. What hurt me the most was that there were senior citizens in wheelchairs who had spent a lot of money to travel by air and there was no attendant from the airline to help them. There were foreigners who would have carried a sad image along."
To rub salt to the injury, the staffers were quite callous towards his instrument, states Amaan.
28/02/16 Vinita Chaturvedi/Times of India
