Winston Aldworth flies aboard IndiGo flight 6E302 going from Chennai to Hyderabad.
The plane: An Airbus A320-200. IndiGo operates 128 of these classic short-haulers.
Airport experience: With a couple of hours to kill at Chennai Airport's domestic terminal, we knocked back a curry at the Copper Chimney restaurant — it's upstairs on level two. The food is tasty enough, but pretty much set to Western taste buds; you'll get far more interesting (and delicious) food away from major transport hubs in India. One wizened travel writer in our group noted that the toilets next door were "the cleanest toilets I've ever seen at an airport in India".
The Irish House does such a first-rate job of serving forgettable pre-flight pints you could imagine you're in a generic airport-terminal Irish pub anywhere in the world. My seat: It took a bit of sign language with the helpful bloke at the self-check-in terminal to get me out of the middle seat. But this is India, where pretty much everyone wants to be helpful... with the exception of the guy at the boarding gate, who bounced me back into the middle.
Class: All 180 seats are Economy.