{"id":5787,"date":"2007-03-22T23:08:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-22T17:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=585"},"modified":"2007-03-22T23:08:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-22T17:38:00","slug":"air-deccan-incompetence-and-courtship-at-mt-abu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/air-deccan-incompetence-and-courtship-at-mt-abu\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Deccan incompetence, and courtship at Mt Abu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Air Deccan&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibnlive.com\/news\/india\/03_2007\/air-deccan-taking-its-passengers-for-a-ride-36505.html\" title=\"Air Deccan overbooking controversy\">getting<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibnlive.com\/news\/dgca-to-quiz-deccan-on-cheating-case\/top\/36674-3.html?xml\" title=\"Air Deccan overbooking controversy - 2\">much<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibnlive.com\/news\/air-deccan-is-bending-safety-norms\/36591-3.html\" title=\"Air Deccan's safety norms\">attention<\/a> from CNN-IBN, and rightly so: their disregard for customers has been so blatant for so long that something had to give. Well, <a href=\"http:\/\/linkyslove.blogspot.com\/\" title=\"Gautam John\">Gautam John<\/a> points me, via email, to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibnlive.com\/news\/air-deccan-is-bending-safety-norms\/36591\/comments.html\" title=\"Comments thread on Air Deccan\">an excellent comments thread<\/a> of people relating their experiences with Air Deccan. One of them, in two parts, by a gentleman named Saurabh Chauhan, is particularly hilarious, and I carry it below the fold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Air Deccan&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibnlive.com\/news\/india\/03_2007\/air-deccan-taking-its-passengers-for-a-ride-36505.html\" title=\"Air Deccan overbooking controversy\">getting<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibnlive.com\/news\/dgca-to-quiz-deccan-on-cheating-case\/top\/36674-3.html?xml\" title=\"Air Deccan overbooking controversy - 2\">much<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibnlive.com\/news\/air-deccan-is-bending-safety-norms\/36591-3.html\" title=\"Air Deccan's safety norms\">attention<\/a> from CNN-IBN, and rightly so: their disregard for customers has been so blatant for so long that something had to give. Well, <a href=\"http:\/\/linkyslove.blogspot.com\/\" title=\"Gautam John\">Gautam John<\/a> points me, via email, to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibnlive.com\/news\/air-deccan-is-bending-safety-norms\/36591\/comments.html\" title=\"Comments thread on Air Deccan\">an excellent comments thread<\/a> of people relating their experiences with Air Deccan. One of them, in two parts, by a gentleman named Saurabh Chauhan, is particularly hilarious, and I carry it below the fold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,15],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Air Deccan incompetence, and courtship at Mt Abu - India Uncut<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/air-deccan-incompetence-and-courtship-at-mt-abu\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Air Deccan incompetence, and courtship at Mt Abu - India Uncut\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Air Deccan&#8217;s getting much attention from CNN-IBN, and rightly so: their disregard for customers has been so blatant for so long that something had to give. 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