Shell Onboarding - the flight

We had our flight for Amsterdam via Paris at 0205 on 10th Sept. For that we were told to check out from our respective hotels and assemble at Leela Palace. This was because Air France had a "special" check in counter in the hotel for business class passengers. We reached the hotel sometime around 9:30 and we were asked to take our stuff from the car and take it inside ourselves. Damn that was embarrassing. Here we were a bunch of guys moving around 10-12 bags from the car to the hotel. How sad is that!!!!!

After going in, we had to go on the 4th floor (or the 5th, don't remember) to the lounge where we could relax and also get our check-in done. Damn those bastards made us sit in one room where there were a few snacks and soft drinks. Me and Richie were pretty excited since we had noticed the Hennessey at the bar over there. We merrily walked over and asked the bar tender for a glass each, and he tells us that alcohol is NOT FREE. :-(

Now since we were in the lounge since 10:00, everyone started getting anxious about what is going on with the check-in, especially when we were asked to give in our tickets and passports. Later on we realised that nothing had happened, since we had to do the normal check-in at the airport ALSO. So now we were really cribbing coz we were in the hotel since 9:30 for a 2 o' clock flight!!!!!

Then eventually at around 1 we were taken to the airport, where we ended up following the normal check-in procedure. And Bangalore airport is a real pigeon hole, only 2 boarding gates. ??????? In fact when our flight boarding was called out, there was immediately a line for the business class passengers.

The plane was decent, an airbus A330. The seats were also okay, nothing great though. The whole flight was good enough. they were showing Spidey 3, Oceans 13, Shrek 3 and POC 3, all of which I've seen, so that restricted my options to the less renowned movies. So I eventually watched Fracture on the flight.

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