Want to get work done? - Take a flight!
Posted by Ashish on December 23rd, 2006
Many of us have the complaint of not getting enough work done because of distraction during the normal work hours - through the meetings, small events, coffee breaks or just because of the fact that a colleague has lot of questions. I typically solve these by either working for a couple of hours in the morning from home and/or working late nights, when not many are around.
But it looks that those are all old-fashioned way of doing things. Based on the routine delays of flights to / from the Delhi airport (read here, and here), it looks that taking a flight is the latest cool way to get work done. You still have to reach the airport fairly early because 1) you wouldn’t know about the exact delay until you reach the airport and 2) you also wouldn’t rememeber how many marriages (36,000? 18,000?) are happening in Delhi on that day - potentially increasing your travel time to the airport by 4 times. At least I am careful - after my parents missed their flight last week.
So - if you haven’t already - it’s time now to prepare yourself to spend some time on the airport and get the work done when there isn’t enough (forced) distraction. I did that yesterday when I spent over 6 hours at the Chennai airport waiting for my Indian Airlines flight to Delhi. And since many people were trying to do the same, I had to sit on the floor with my laptop cable plugged to the power-point. It was funny this time - not sure if I will find it funny next time!
By the way - it did appear to me that I was more efficient at the airport than I have been in the office for the last few days 
December 23rd, 2006 at 11:26 pm
6 HRS is huge delay. Absolutely unacceptable. but this raised to another point. “Time is Money”
one side - >You have to take flight because you got to finish your work/meetings/trip on time.
other side -> Flights can’t take off because they will not get a chance to land in delhi due to fog and airline will have bear a huge fuel cost.
December 23rd, 2006 at 11:33 pm
:-))
December 26th, 2006 at 9:52 pm
why no new post?
December 26th, 2006 at 10:29 pm
Yes, why no no new post on some solid, concrete topic- like Entrepreneurship or say Time management (as time is money)?
Or are you so busy in seeing air hostess? Just read your old post too
December 27th, 2006 at 5:48 pm
It happens. Delay is also one of the law of airports. But it is good you were able to work between.
December 29th, 2006 at 2:13 pm
“It was funny this time - not sure if I will find it funny next time!” .. very true. So be careful that you don’t keep your work to be done at the airport
December 30th, 2006 at 1:01 pm
i remember reading recently that the government might come out with a new regulation, where the airline will have up re-imburse the customer upto 10,000 bucks for delays etc, read it on TOI, is that really happening?Oh by the way Happy New year!
March 12th, 2008 at 7:17 pm
It happens. Delay is also one of the law of airports. But it is good you were able to work between.