UDF

What is UDF?

It is the User Development Fee charged towards construction & operation of the Airport and approved by the Ministry of Civil Aviation.


And, you can't even provide a decent, working, basic phone facility in the Bengaluru airport. Yuck.

Airport Travails

At the Denver airport, blogging using the free Wifi that is available here and wondering how advanced India really is. The last time I tried a free Wifi in Chennai, it was totally unusable. Got disconnected often and lead to more frustration using it. London Heathrow pales in comparison as well.

I was surprised to see that the luggage carriers costs $4 here in Denver airport ! Lug your own stuff rather than look for a trolley. As usual, there was a porter who got my bags into the check-in counter for a tip of $2 !! Guess, money is the same the world over :)

I am also wondering what makes the food items inside the airport so costly ! It looks as if to say bring your own stuff or starve ! All I want is a bottle of water and it's crazy to charge almost double of what it's priced outside.

Mac-arena

I bought a Mac and it feels weird. Well, not that weird because when I buy a PC / reinstall Windows OS, I usually run it through a performance optimisation routine, you know, like configuring swap, running TweakUI, removing crapware etc. Apart from installing Winzip, anti-virus S/W, Firefox, Ad-aware, CCCleaner, IrfanView, KLite Codec, firewall, autorun remover - the works ! And then, this came along and I am bit flummoxed on what to install ! They say there is no virus, no registry to tweak, no disabling of autoruns-bah, what am I supposed to do with this bubblegum machine ?? Relax...maybe :)