Couple of weeks ago, I was supposed to fly from here to Pune for a dear friend’s engagement. As luck would have it the folks at Jetlite cancelled the flight, did not care to inform the poor passengers and did not make any alternate arrangements. I had to get into Pune no matter what and immediately started negotiating with the ground staff. The rest of the passengers, who had been sitting quitely thus far also joined in the pitch and soon we were a crowd demading our rights. After half an hour of deal making, I got JetLite to agree to something that I thought was fair and good enough for me. They would put us on a flight to Mumbai. I had talked to Rai and NT in the meantime and decided meet up with them in Mumbai instead. Rest of the passengers were still not satisfied and wanted a deal that put them in Pune.
I broke from the crowd, took my Mumbai ticket and checked in for the flight. Two hours later at the gate I was greeted by few of the pune passengers and they looked at me with disdain. They accused me of breaking the unity and not having stood up for their rights. I was too occupied with appreciating the Kingfisher staff to take note of their comments.
It was only later that I thought about it. Had I betrayed anyone or had I simply behaved as any usually self-centered product of the western civilization would.
I will request my audience of 2 to kindly comment.
