At flights Airport

John has arrived at the flights airport to catch flight B A 201 to Kolkata

John: porter ! Porter?

Porter: Yes sir. Only one bag? What flightand flights airlines sir?

John: Domestic travel to Calcutta.

Porter: This way sir. Please pay Re 10 for porterage at the airline ticket booking counter.

Porter:Airline luggage counter One piece sir? Here is your travel baggage ticket?

Rajan (To the porter). Has the flight to Calcutta been called yet?

Porter Yes sir. Please stand in that line and wait for your turn.


Voice on the PA System your attention please. Calling all passengers traveling by Bharat Airlines Flight No.201 to Kolkata. Passengers are requested to check in Travel Baggage at the ticket counter. Thank you.

Lady at the Ticket Counter: your air ticket to Kolkata , sir. Please place your luggage suitcase on weighing machine . As per the airlines luggage regulations , baggage allowance is only 20 kg.

John: Where is the weighing machine..I have some excess baggage

Lady at the Ticket counter Just at your right hand side. Thank you sir. Here is your excess baggage ticket, Do you have any hand baggage.

JohnYes, one piece.

Man at the Ticket counter Here is a baggage tag for your hand baggage. Please keep the excess baggage ticket carefully sir. You’ll require it to claim your excess baggage at Calcutta. Here is your flight ticket and your boarding card. Thank you. Next please.

Johnsits on a couch in the waiting lounge.

Girl on the P.A. System All passengers traveling to Calcutta by Bharat Airlines flight No.201 are requested to proceed for airport security check. Thank you.

John(Inside the security check enclosure).

What do you want to check?

Security Inspector Are you carrying any fire arms or a pointed instrument?

John No i do not have any kind of fire arms.

Inspector (Feeling Ranjan all over). This is just routine, sir. We have to be careful about security , you know. What with all these hijackings going on.

John Yes, the newspapersare full of it these hijackings. I wonder how these people do it?


Inspector One cannot be too careful. Do you have any hand baggage ?

John Yes, this attache

Inspector Please open it. Right, that is all. Here let me stamp your Boarding card. Thank you.

John passes through the security check enclosure and waits in another lounge After ten minutes.


Girl on the P.A.system Bharat Airlines Flight 201 to Kolkata is now ready for departure. Passengers are requested to proceed to the aircraft. Please keep your boarding cards ready.

John (To the passenger walking next to him). Excuse me sir, which is the aeroplane that we board?

Passenger The airport shuttle bus standing at the entrance will take us to the aircraft.


Ground Hostess Good evening sir. May I see your boarding card, please? Thank you.

John Excuse me, where do I go?

Ground Hostess Please get into that bus

John (sitting in the Bharat Airlines bus, talks to his neighbour). I must say, I’ am most impressed with the efficiency of the Airlines. Air travel is so much more organized, faster cleaner than any other form of travel. Don’t you think so?

Fellow Passenger Yes. It certainly is the fastest way of getting from one place to another. I am a businessman. Very often I travel to Delhi by the morning plane, do my work in Delhi and then return to Calcutta by the evening flight.


Aeroplane moving towards runway

JohnIsn’t that wonderful? You can travel 20000 miles in a day and do a full day’s work as well.

Fellow Passenger Yes, but this business of Security check wastes so much time. Then the planes are not keeping to their correct timings. Sometimes it can be very frustrating and upsetting too.

John Here we are Sir. May I hold one of your luggage bags ?

Fellow Passenger No thank you I can carry my bag luggage. Thank you all the same for the offer.