Aisle Be Damned

A hilarious take on just about everything associated with the dog and pony show of air travel. Seamlessly integrating flying tips with quirky witticisms, it provides perspective on an array of common travel situations including: how to get upgraded to Business class, how to micro-manage bathroom-frequenting pilots, how to win elbow fights with co-passengers, how to breeze one’s way through immigration and breaking the ice with attractive co-passengers. Rest assured, your flying experience and perspective on aviation will never be the same again.

A hilarious take on just about everything associated with the dog and pony show of air travel. Seamlessly integrating flying tips with quirky witticisms, it provides perspective on an array of common travel situations including: how to get upgraded to Business class, how to micro-manage bathroom-frequenting pilots, how to win elbow fights with co-passengers, how to breeze one’s way through immigration and breaking the ice with attractive co-passengers. Rest assured, your flying experience and perspective on aviation will never be the same again. Over the course of thirteen crisp chapters, interspersed with sixty off-beat images, the book covers: - Awesome icebreakers to start conversations with attractive co-passengers - Getting seamlessly upgraded to Business Class - Sure shot strategies for winning the affections of flight attendants - How a water bottle dramatically improves flight safety - How smart executives deal with the ‘Walk of Shame’ to the economy section - Action plans to counter the airline’s ‘technical snag’ routine - The how's and whys of micro managing the pilots - Breezing through immigration, customs and always making your flight connections And a whole lot more …..

Professionally, Rishi heads sales and marketing for a financial services multinational. It’s a good gig – his awesome teams do all the work and he shows up to take the credit. Prior to this, he spent years dozing his way up to a super duper senior position at a fine global bank, which ironically never sleeps. His other professional claims to fame include running football betting syndicates in Spain and setting up random internet businesses that contributed to the dotcom bust. Academically, he perfected the art of cracking exams without attending classes at the Cathedral & John Connon School, University of Rochester and Cornell University. Athletically, the dude completes half marathons (21 km for the sportingly ignorant) in well under three hours. To put this speed in perspective, the rate of continental drift is four cms per year: landmasses take 500,000 years to cover the distance that he can in barely a few hours. To put this time in perspective, the Mohenjo-daro and Harappa baloney that they taught us in school is 5,000 years old. So it’s no wonder that champion distance- running nations like Kenya and Ethiopia are clamoring to give him citizenship. Physically, he is a lot more handsome than his photograph suggests. His chiseled Greek God features actually manifest themselves a lot better in oil portraits. Financially, everything that he invests in, depreciates. He is credited with pioneering what is now widely known as the à la carte investment strategy, because it is so damned contrary to what Buffet does. Recreationally, he enjoys texting and will be happy to communicate with you. Please use one of the following addresses, depending on the nature of your correspondence. • Feedback on the book: rishi@aislebedamned.com • Job offers: rishi_piparaiya@hotmail.com • Racy photographs: gmail@piparaiya.com Intellectually, this is his first book.