Fatbus, I hope you are sticking to the more regular destinations, īcause had you tried to come into DEL with a Specific Bomb Threat that evening, you would have ended up with some Russian hardware in your tailpipe. It was as close to a war zone as it comes without dogfights, and knowing from the locals the amount of SAMs and MIGs being deployed it is Incredible that nobody repeated the opening scene from the classic film "The Party"
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Nice to sit in an armchair in Dubai or in Norhalne polishing the ego but not as much fun as doing evasive maneuvres down the final to DEL as we had to do that night
. NOTAM or ATIS? No, that would have given too much clue about what to come next, and you donīt do that when you expect to be under attack
. Paranoia? India has more terror related killings than the rest of the world combined (look up the statistics), so the percieved threat is very present. Flight safety? Some day it will hopefully take precedence over Security and Politics, but that day will not come until a lot of fundamentals have changed in this part of the world
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Come and enjoy the Commonwealth Games; there are lots of vacant hotel rooms and seats in DEL: War tourism has yet to gain in popularity
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T.