And we are off...may be not

On my way home, I checked on my Treo 650 to see if the flight is on time. I normally use ohare.com since they have most updated information and I don't have to bookmark multiple airlines. I couldnt' believe it, the website said the flight was 3 hours delayed.

I looked at airindia.com when I got home and as expected it said the flight was on time. AirIndia.com is usually not updated in real time because that would be good customer service and that would go against the airline's image. So we call the dreaded recording (they don't have any live person answering the phone; they have a not so personalized recording for their daily flight in and out of Chicago) which confirmed the delay.

With that knowledge we had some extra time to kill and go over our list to make sure we didn't forget anything. I created this blog and wrote the first entry. I took care of a few details with the house including lowering the temprature to 55 degrees.

We loaded up all the luggage in two cars and left home around 6pm to catch the 10pm flight to Ahmedabad (AMD) via Bombay (BOM) and Frankfurt, Germany.