Hi.
I wss traveling from northern Europe, the flight time was estimated to approximately 10½ hours. I was flying to Istanbul and from there to New Delhi. The first part to Istanbul was fine. From Istanbul the trouble started, we were sitting in the plane on the runway for like two hours before starting the actual flight, the airline gave almost no information and generally the service was horrible. I had a tight schedule, from arrival in Delhi, there like 14 hours until my procedure, so I already had spent two of those, at the runway. After about 8 hours flight, we were closing in on Istanbul as I could see on the cabin flight screen, but then suddenly we started circling, nobody said anything but I could see we were circling and I could see that the distance left to Delhi was changing from 50 - 200 km. After circling 8 hours above Istanbul we were finally told that we had to go to another airport(at that time there was like 4 hours left to my procedure). We weren’t told which airport but just before we landed I saw that there now was 1500 km to Delhi…
I know new that I never would make it in time and I was scared that the whole trip was for nothing, I started to phone the clinic from the runway on the other airport(the one 1500 km south of Delhi) but I couldn’t get hold of anybody, I was really stressed, finally I managed to talk to someone and because Dr. A and his staff are such great people they did agree to do the procedure on a saturday(it should have been on a thursday), anyway at the end I got to Delhi, 16 hours later, and most of the hours were simply circling above Delhi(we couln’t land because of fog, as I found out after finally landing)…
Anyway, the procedure went fine, the city itself as not nice, a big cultural shock and I was screwed over by some taxi drive that took me into a shop which some people he worked together with owned, the were like 6-7 people working in the shop and they tried to force me to buy shirts for 500$ and I really was cornered in the shop, they didn’t want to let me go, unless I bought something, in the end I got so angry that I simply pushed the guys away and ran out of the shop. I was prepared for India and especially Delhi, but I was not expecting this poverty, it was not nice.
When I was going home and trust me, I was really looking forward to going home, my plane was cancelled after waiting for 14 hours in the airport, with pain from the procedure(remember I had strip done and the donor area hurt like beep), again no information, the signs in the airport just kept on saying delayed until after 14 hours it said cancelled, the airline didn’t have any information during that time, I went many times to ask for information. Finally I got on another plane and flew to Finland and from there home, this was not the original route but I just wanted to get out of there.
That was my horrible trip to Delhi 
