GoAir experience

  
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The online booking experience at the GoAir website is wonderful. The site is designed in the eye friendly colors of light blue and white and things seem to be arranged spot on. The best part of the ticketing experience is that there is a "Pick Seat" feature which gives you a layout of the airplane and lets you pick your seat. Now that is one thing that I have always wanted to see especially wrt international carriers. When someone is paying around 20k for a one-way international ticket they should at least have the opportunity to request a particular seat. Surprisingly no one of our other carriers have this feature available as yet. I guess they are just scared to show how many seats are actually full. And it helps that I may just get a free air ticket on this route....pretty cool.

And whatsup with those hideous uniforms. It looks like some design school dropout got the task of desinging their uniforms and man are they sad. The long sleaves and flourescent colors do not go along with the navy blue pants and tops that they wear and worse still they are really injurious to the eyes. Even if the attendants are good looking the uniforms would turn me away. The airhostesses were alright but still Jet rules. The served a bottle of water on the flight and there were other refreshments on sale. So it was pretty decent. The planes are definitely leased out and not brand new so it is a bit unnerving but they don't seem to be that old.

Well unfortunately I did not win the free ticket and whats worse is that my baggage turned out to be overweight so had to pay a hefty price of Rs70/kg to load it. I should have just carried it as hand baggage instead of checking it in like a dumb ass. But in general the checkin procedure was alright. There were no unnecessary delays or anything so that was a plus. The only crappy part of the GoAir website is that the booking feature works only on IE :( and doesn't move on Mozilla.

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