The onward flight from Bangalore to Colombo was pretty uneventful, except for a couple of interesting minutes. The immigration officer in Bangalore seemed to be pretty surprised that someone connected with infotech might want to carry out a trip to Europe. And that too, a personal one. We were eventually let through after it was realized that we were neither high on the threat meter, nor did we possess a high entertainment value. Surprising?
One interesting aspect aboard the Sri Lankan flight was the presence of a frontal camera that was being fed into the vanilla airshow, thus rendering us a live take-off and landing view.
Snacks served on the plane were at best commonplace. We were only served sandwiches because the ensuing trip lasted for only an hour. I was served a vegetarian cheese/mint chutney sandwich when there were non-vegetarian options available. This mishap occurred due to the grevious mistake of selecting "Indian-Hindu" cuisine for the reservation. This misfortune was to continue for the remainder of the trip and was to be the cause of many a heated and repeated requests for meatier cuisines.
The pilot announced the landing at Colombo and promptly landed without carrying out the necessary spiral exercises for losing altitude. On arrival, we were pleasantly surprised to notice that the Bandaranaike International Airport was styled on the lines of international transit-based airports like Charles-de-Gaulle and Schiphol, divided into multiple terminals, departure gates and comprehensive television displays of flight schedules.
We were granted transit visas for Srilanka and the airlines put us up for the night. Must say that the first mark that was entrenced upon us of Srilankan was pretty impressive.
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