Plane and (not) simple

Hindustan Times | BySeema Goswami

Nov 18, 2017 09:47 PM IST

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Boarding a flight is slowly becoming a nightmare for many travellers

I don’t know about you but I have stopped taking flights while wearing boots, no matter how cold the climate. I have learnt the hard way that boots and airport security does not go well together. After being humiliated time and again in the security queue – struggling to take off my boots while impatient passengers tut-tut behind me and then struggling to put them on after they have journeyed through the X-ray machine – I shifted to ballet flats while navigating airports. So, I would sail through smugly while other people wobbled from one foot to another to take off their shoes.

I have learnt the hard way that boots and airport security do not go well together(Getty images)

“The ones I hate the most are those who spring up from their seats even before the plane has come to a complete standstill to get their bags out ”

“The torture doesn’t end the moment you board your flight, does it? On the contrary, it starts all over again, and this time it can last for anything from two to 12 hours.”