India
oi-Gaurav Sharma
As
IndiGo
struggles
to
keep
flights
and
passengers
on
the
same
schedule
(or
even
on
the
same
planet),
an
old
comedy
masterstroke
by
Jaspal
Bhatti
has
resurfaced
and
is
making
the
internet
laugh
and
cry
at
the
same
time.
A
decades-old
clip
from
his
iconic
show
Full
Tension,
titled
“SOS
Airline”,
has
gone
viral
just
when
IndiGo
is
dealing
with
mass
cancellations
and
airport-level
panic.
By
December
7,
over
2,100
flights
vanished
into
thin
air
–
possibly
delayed
so
much
that
they
time-travelled.
A
decades-old
comedy
sketch
by
Jaspal
Bhatti,
titled
SOS
Airline,
from
his
show
Full
Tension,
has
resurfaced
and
gone
viral
amid
IndiGo’s
flight
cancellations,
with
users
noting
parallels
between
the
sketch’s
depiction
of
airline
chaos
and
current
events.
From
Jaspal
Bhatti’s
popular
video
In
the
sketch,
Bhatti
plays
a
single,
overworked
airline
employee
who
is
the
check-in
staff,
customer
care
executive,
pilot,
baggage
boy,
and
occasionally…
the
hope
department.
He
battles
overbooked
flights,
lost
pilots
(probably
stuck
in
traffic),
flying
paperwork,
and
announcements
blaming
“technical
issues”
–
which
in
airline
language
usually
means
“we
have
no
idea
what’s
happening.”
Social
media
users
wasted
no
time
calling
Bhatti
a
time
traveller.
One
user
said
Bhatti
didn’t
just
do
comedy;
he
filed
a
flight
plan
for
the
future.
Another
joked
that
while
The
Simpsons
predict
global
events,
Bhatti
casually
decoded
Indian
aviation
chaos
with
one
sketch
and
a
straight
face.
Netizens
now
agree
on
one
thing:
Jaspal
Bhatti
wasn’t
just
a
comedian
–
he
was
clearly
running
a
secret
aviation
ministry.
