Mosquito mistletoe

The best resolution to any problem is to address the root cause. Bangalore airport authorities seemed to have found the root cause : humans. Mosquitoes feed and sustain on humans and the best way to avoid that would be to eliminate the humans.

A thin smoke seeped into the check-in area and I had to ask my ex-colleague Sankar if he had forgotten to stub out his cigarette and caused a minor conflagration outside. Minutes later, as we headed for boarding the buses to take us to the aircraft, the smoke was so thick that we couldn't see beyond 3 feet and I had serious doubts about the visibility for take-off.

If you think that boarding the aeroplane would have solved the problem, you are mistaken. Inside the aircraft came the guy with a spray can. I believe that this would have been the airlines' plan to ensure that no mosquitoes travel without a ticket.