Emirates Air: and the case of missing compassion

The blogging girl started off on her journey. In the car she stapled documents, she wrote emails, she made phone calls. But she felt uneasy, somehow. There was a lurking feeling that she had forgotten something, something important.

At the airport, the person behind the Emirates Air counter told her coolly that her flight (EK 0752) was delayed, which would mean that she would miss her ongoing flight and would have to spend six hours in the middle of the night in the Dubai airport. The girl protested but the Emirates Air representative looked past her and called “Next”.

The hours passed at the Casablanca airport. The blogging girl’s Emirates Air meal voucher only entitled her to a drink though her delayed flight didn’t leave until 4 in the afternoon; Emirates Air apparently thought it best to save money at times like this.

Finally on the plane, the girl poured herself a glass of red wine, placing it on the pull down plastic tray before her. It was a few minutes later that the man sitting in front of her jerked his seat forward, spilling the entire bottle of red wine on her lap. She cried out.  The passenger looked back, saw what had happened but said nothing and turned away. The girl mopped herself up as best as she could with wet towels. Wet and cold, she ate her dinner. It was somewhere during the pasta bolognese that the tears began to stream down the girl’s face. The tall, blond air hostess walking down the aisle saw her weeping. Then she looked away and passed her by. And so began the girl’s journey to Bahrain…..

P.S. It turns out that the important thing that the blogging girl had forgotten was her camera battery. Sigh, no pictures of this journey….

P.P.S.  But perhaps you might like to see some of the latest photos of Peacock Pavilions right here at the fabulous blog of Melanie of the amazing Modello Designs.