Cross-border trade

If you think airport security is lax in India, it’s a good idea to move across the border to Nepal. After waiting for an hour and a half for their flight from Kathmandu to Bhairahwa, a town on the Indo-Nepal border, passengers boarded the flight, only to find that two of them didn’t have any place to sit. The air hostess muttered something about the airline’s marketing team and asked the pilot for help. “Ask them to hold on to something while we take off and land,” he said with a smile. The air hostess rushed to the back of the plane and announced, in Nepalese and English, “Please check your boarding passes. This plane is headed to Bhairahwa.” Two passengers got up, grinning sheepishly, saying they had boarded the wrong aircraft.