| Nowadays plane and plane tickets have become | | | | their journey. For an average or middle class citizen, |
| customary terms to be used, as both terms are | | | | he has to compromise with his time, patience and |
| interrelated. Planes might have a strong stretch back | | | | money to get a plane ticket, with a number of |
| history, even stretching far, to the epics. The first | | | | airlines and a number of classes, bopping before him |
| plane pilot, on earth would have been Ravana the | | | | as options. For Ravana and the elite group, they have |
| great Asura legend of the Hindu Epic Ramayana, who | | | | no choice than one, but it seems like, options |
| had a Pushpaka Vimana (a plane made of flowers), in | | | | confuse the middle class Indian to book cheap flight |
| which he kidnapped Seethalakshmi, wife of Rama, | | | | tickets. |
| and brought her to Lanka, believed to be the present | | | | Options have also proved to be boons as people are |
| Srilanka. The reference is much before, Leonardo da | | | | able to meet their urgency, with respect to their |
| vinci had the concept of helicopter and Wright | | | | affordability, comfort and need. The online website |
| brothers implemented the idea successfully. Even | | | | of various travel service providers, are utmost user |
| much later the idea of passenger planes and plane | | | | friendly and usually it takes less than 3 minutes to |
| tickets has emerged. | | | | book a plane ticket. A recent study by a travel portal |
| The age-old barter system would have accounted | | | | claimed that the women are slow by more than a |
| for the buying of flight tickets, as money could only | | | | minute in booking air tickets. According to the portal, |
| revive the system, which now has become global. | | | | women take '2 minutes 14 seconds to book plane |
| The current recession can also pave the way to get | | | | tickets through internet while men take just 1 minute |
| the popularity for the system. But unfortunately | | | | and 5 seconds. This is not to generate a gender bias |
| there seems no revival in the buying habit and style | | | | but rather to convey the maximum time required to |
| which is also global, where above all, money matters. | | | | book a plane ticket is 2 minute and 14 seconds. |
| The revival would have led more people to buy air | | | | The rush for plane tickets during Christmas, Onam, |
| tickets, and travel across the world. There would | | | | Hajj pilgrimage and many other religiously oriented |
| have been a chance that the airlines might have | | | | festivals and occasions world-wide, is soothing to the |
| propelled faster in business as for urgency, demand | | | | mind to know that above business and profit, human |
| could always be higher. There is no room for | | | | is a lover of God, and a lover of mankind and peace. |
| hopelessness, as the system has become more | | | | Man still values his culture. The eagerness to meet his |
| sturdy and structured, irrespective of the existence | | | | fellow beings at the earliest has now become |
| on money for trading and business. | | | | possible, and there is every chance that it could be |
| As world has grown to an exorbitantly developed | | | | faster in the coming days, over viewing the |
| stage, that today many CEO s and MD's of | | | | advancement in science and technology. Renaissance, |
| conglomerates owe their own personal aircraft like | | | | reformation, industrialization, globalization, might have |
| Ravana, for whom, airline tickets are not a matter of | | | | gifted the plane and tickets, along with which it has |
| concern at all. They belong to the elite strata, and | | | | once made man skeptic about religion also. The rush |
| we can't make an average statistical data, considering | | | | for plane tickets at the Cochin International Airport is |
| them, who rarely depend on the airline tickets for | | | | still a calming sensation for my eyes and mind. |