IMPOSSIBLE TO HIJACK THIS PLANE !!!!!!!!!!!!!…

SOURCE:::: INPUT FROM ONE OF MY CONTACTS….REAL GOOD STUFF WHICH ACTIVATES AN INSTANT LAUGH…DONT MISS …FIT ONE FOR THE NOMINATION OF MOST HILARIOUS BLOG OF THE DAY…..PL ENJOY READING ….STUFF IS MADE PURELY OUT OF AN IMAGINARY AIRLINE AND NO COMPARISON OF WHATSOEVER IS REQUIRED TO BE DRAWN WITH ANY AIRLINE !!!!!

Natarajan.

> *The Kompletely Finished Airlines (KFA) was on the brink. Its pilots were
> on strike and staff had not been paid salaries for six months.
>
> Banks, which had lent huge sums of money, were closing in. But there was
> one reason why KF Airlines still drew passengers; it was hijack proof. And
> this is how it earned its reputation.
>
>
> One day, an attempt was made by unknown persons to hijack a flight of this KFA..

> Two of the three hijackers on KFA Flight 333, who had dozed off to sleep,
> wake up and spring out of their seats brandishing things that looked like
> sharp weapons. One of them takes hold of the stewardess and yells for all
> the passengers to hear, “Don’t move. This is a hijack. We are taking this
> plane to Karachi.”
>
>
> “Wait a minute,” says a passenger who looks like a banker, “you can’t take
> this plane. My bank has already seized it to recover dues owned by the
> company. This plane is going to Mumbai to be auctioned.”
>
>
> “Just hold on,” says the hijacker, “let me check my tickets. We could be on
> the wrong flight.” After checking his tickets he says, “We are on the
> correct flight. To hell with your bank.”
>
>
> One of the hijackers moves towards the cockpit taking the stewardess along
> while the second one stands guard in the isle. Meanwhile the third hijacker
> takes his place at the rear. The cockpit door is jerked open and the
> hijacker rushes in and shuts it. “There is no need to panic. Stay calm.
> This is a hijack. If you do as you are told your life will be spared.”
>
>
> Seeing the surprised look on the pilot’s face, the hijacker asked, “Who are
> you?”
> “I am the steward, not the pilot,” said the uniformed person in the pilot’s
> seat. “The pilots are on strike because they haven’t been paid salaries for
> the last three months.”
> “Then, who is flying this plane?” asked the hijacker, a little nervous now.
> “Nobody is,” said the steward, “we haven’t even taken off.”
>
>
> The turn of events shocks the hijacker, but he quickly recovers. “I must
> have dozed off. Can you fly this plane?” he asks the steward.
> “But I don’t have a licence,” says the steward.
>
>
> “What if I hold a box cutter to your head?” the hijacker threatens.
> “Then maybe,” says the steward, “but there still is one problem. We don’t
> have fuel.”
> “What?” the hijacker asks.
>
>
> “The oil companies won’t give us fuel because we still owe them a lot of
> money,” the steward blurts out.
>
>
> The hijacker thinks for a while and then pulls out his satellite phone and
> makes a call to Karachi. “Karachi, we have a problem. Can you wire some
> 10,000 dollars to the KFA account to buy some aviation fuel?”
>
>
> Karachi agrees, but the money has to be routed through a series of offshore
> accounts to hide the source and this takes some time. Meanwhile the
> hijacker yells for the stewardess. “Bring me some coffee.”
>
> ]
> “Sorry sir,” says the stewardess, “but the company cut coffee, biscuits and
> toffees from the menu to pay the mortgage on the boss’s luxury villa.”
>
>
> After what seems like an hour a fuel tanker drives to the plane and unloads
> its contents.
> “Can we take off now?” the hijacker asks.
>
>
> “I don’t think we can take off, because this plane has only one engine,”
> says the steward.
>
>
> “What happened to the other one?” asks the hijacker.
>
>
> “It is being used to power the boss’s Formula 1 car.”
>
>
> The hijacker is stunned. He then gets angry that the hijack has gone
> horribly wrong and yells. “I want to talk to your boss.”
>
>
> The frightened steward calls up the boss and gives the phone to the
> hijacker who listens for a while and then hands it back. “What did he say?”
> the steward asks.
>
>
> “Nothing. The mobile company said his SIM card was deactivated because
> bills were not paid for the last six months,” says the hijacker and walks out.
>========================================

TRIVANDRUM INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT….A NEW GATEWAY TO INDIA….

Wednesday, 15 August 2012 1:43 PM
SOURCE:::: “THE HINDU”    TRIVANDRUM…
 Nice photograph of equally nice terminal….I am naturally going back to my Trivandrum days  espicially to the DAY …NOV 1 2006….when Hon. PM laid the foundation stone for this terminal and the DAY on which Bhoomi Pooja was performed for the beginning of construction activity at site…some time in the first week of FEB 2007…..I had the unique opportunity of participating in that pooja  in my capacity as Airport Director of  TVM Airport  and placed bricks alongwith precious stones and coins in the first pit dug on that day amidst pooja mantra slogams ….
Very nice to note that this airport is becoming a new gateway to our country ….
Natarajan

Thiruvananthapuram new gateway to India

S. ANIL RADHAKRISHNAN

DREAM VACATION: The Thiruvananthapuram international airport is joining four other airports to become a gateway to India for holidaymakers.Photo: S. Mahinsha
The HinduDREAM VACATION: The Thiruvananthapuram international airport is joining four other airports to become a gateway to India for holidaymakers.Photo: S. Mahinsha
At Thiruvananthapuram airport for citizens of 11 countries
God’s Own Country will soon become the fifth gateway to India for holidaymakers from 11 countries who can get tourist visa on arrival (T-VoA) as the international airport here will join the airports in Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata in issuing this passport to a dream vacation.
Citizens of Finland, Japan, Luxembourg, New Zealand, Singapore, Cambodia, Vietnam, the Philippines, Laos, Myanmar and Indonesia can get T-VoA. The Union Ministry of External Affairs has approved it for the citizens of France, Germany and Russia, and nod from the Bureau of Immigration (BOI), which functions under the Union Ministry of Home Affairs, is awaited.
Being introduced as part of a plan of the Union Ministry of Tourism to double the number of foreign tourists visiting the country in three or four years, T-VoA is expected to give a fillip to the burgeoning tourism sector of Kerala. The State registered 7,32,985 foreign tourist arrivals in 2011, earning Rs. 4,221.99 crore in foreign exchange. The recently unveiled tourism policy of the State targets 30 lakh foreign tourist arrivals by 2021.
The Airports Authority of India has informed the State government about the move to introduce the visa. The authority, which manages the airport, has informed the BOI that it is ready to allocate a facilitation centre, an exclusive visa desk, facilities for taking photographs of the visiting foreign nationals, a foreign exchange counter, a holding area, signboards and other infrastructure at the international terminal, official sources told The Hindu.
Thiruvananthapuram figures along with Goa and Bangalore on the shortlist of the BOI for granting T-VoA. Since the AAI has informed the bureau that the facilities sought are in place, T-VoA is expected to be introduced soon, sources said.
The bureau has approached the State police to get officials of the rank of sub-inspector deputed to the visa desk.
A tourist can get a visa on arrival with a maximum validity of 30 days. BOI norms say the objectives of the visit should only be recreation, sightseeing and meeting friends or relatives and no other purpose or activity. Those applying for the visa should not have a residence or occupation in India and should hold a passport with minimum six-month validity.