Many of us have the complaint of not getting enough work done because of distraction during the normal work hours – through the meetings, small events, coffee breaks or just because of the fact that a colleague has lot of questions. I typically solve these by either working for a couple of hours in the morning from home and/or working late nights, when not many are around.
But it looks that those are all old-fashioned way of doing things. Based on the routine delays of flights to / from the Delhi airport (read here, and here), it looks that taking a flight is the latest cool way to get work done. You still have to reach the airport fairly early because 1) you wouldn’t know about the exact delay until you reach the airport and 2) you also wouldn’t rememeber how many marriages (36,000? 18,000?) are happening in Delhi on that day – potentially increasing your travel time to the airport by 4 times. At least I am careful – after my parents missed their flight last week.
So – if you haven’t already - it’s time now to prepare yourself to spend some time on the airport and get the work done when there isn’t enough (forced) distraction. I did that yesterday when I spent over 6 hours at the Chennai airport waiting for my Indian Airlines flight to Delhi. And since many people were trying to do the same, I had to sit on the floor with my laptop cable plugged to the power-point. It was funny this time – not sure if I will find it funny next time!
By the way – it did appear to me that I was more efficient at the airport than I have been in the office for the last few days 
