I N C I D E N T A L L Y: One of our brighter young readers points out that the comment in last week”s issue regarding the company IT department, which rejected the word thirty one inches in Arabic numerals, was nothing of the sort. In fact, he claims, it is part of a secret EU project to censor emails with non-metric measurements. He says that if one refers to a 78.75 cm seat pitch there will be no problems!
According to a media report an Indian woman who fell asleep on a flight to Doha unexpectedly wound up back home when no one woke her up at the destination. Praseela, a 32-year-old villager flying for the first time to join her engineer husband, dozed off on the Air India night flight from Cochin. She woke up only after the aircraft began its return flight from the Qatari capital the next morning ending her maiden air trip where she had started. Air India, embarrassed that its staff had failed to make all passengers disembark, gave her a free ticket and she again flew to Doha the next day. Further investigation is pending! top