BANGALORE: In the busy day to day life boarding an airplane is not more than a regular thing for most of the upper middle class people in our society. With the online booking platforms and various trip makers competing to get attention from the customers there are a variety of offers available on air tickets nowadays. But although the nation had a rise in the economy and aviation sectors there are still thousands of citizen who can?t even afford to dream of boarding a flight, reports Scoop Whoop.
There are still a high rate of poverty and unemployment in the country, which results in millions of people struggling to meet their daily needs. Thus doing something unique and special for the underprivileged is always a great attitude towards the society.
Thus Bahadur Chand Gupta, A retired aircraft engineer from Haryana had the bright idea of purchasing a decommissioned Airbus A300, parking it on a vacant lot close the city's domestic airport and offering virtual "flights" to the general public for 150 rupees each. The flight is commonly known as ?the flight to nowhere ?and mostly visited by enthusiastic school students.
When asked about the venture he explains that "I come from a small village in Haryana state called Kasan, I was the first person from there to qualify as an engineer. When I went to work for India Airlines in Delhi it was a very big thing. Whenever I went home or when people came to the city they wanted to talk to me about my work. None of them had ever flown and many of them used to ask if I could take them inside a plane. For security reasons that was never possible, but saying no always made me feel very uncomfortable and disappointed. After some time I began to think that I should do something outside of the airport. Then this plane came up for sale and I bought it."
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