Tomorrow’s Air Travel: Coming Soon..

-Dr. Tapan Saikia |

Step by step…day by day…let’s get ready for tomorrow’s lifestyle…for first one month, I thought there’ll be no changes…how inadequate was my understanding of this virus…

Let’s look at an air travel, a domestic flight…for a 7 AM flight, you’ll have to arrive no later than 4 AM…meaning, you wake up at 2 or 3 AM…not different from an international travel…

***Keep your COVID free documents handy…it might be your only most important document…your full ID ingrained…updated on a monthly basis..

The movement at the airport will be slow, very slow….physical distance….paper free boarding pass…sanitisation protocols (which could keep coming in various ways…for example, robots delivering the liquid or walk through sanitising machine)…seating arrangement at the wait area, not what you’re used to …

In-flight experiences might be a surprise and a pleasure too…you always prayed for a clean and spacious cabin, just like the first class one…imagine one in your ‘Cattle Class’ too…cabin crew, faceless (covered with a mask)… how I look forward to a transparent mask, made of a friendly material…I can’t imagine a crew without a smile…Praveena will approve..

You wouldn’t have to share the armrest with a grumpy space hogger….your tray table, free of germs and dirt…

Food, perhaps less to choose from, but hygienic…the boiler finally got a cleaning after 4 years…your coffee tasting better…

While getting off…you’re not allowed to push through…you won’t just be able to…Ah! I can imagine the faces of some…

Outside the airport…your bus, car…all will have protocols to follow…

Are we looking at a different world order?…you bet…

Now, get ready to shell out more…much more…until another World Order…perhaps back to chaos…

{Will return with a protocol for a hospital}