Flying low cost

A queer kind of peer rivalry has cropped up between the three services - the Army, Navy and the Air Force. The Army has recently entered into an arrangement with Taj group of hotels for accommodation of officers of the rank of Colonel and above when on temporary duty in the national Capital. As soon as the olive greens flaunted the achievement, the navywalahs reciprocated informing that they too have similar arrangements with hotels and resorts not only in Delhi but also in Mumbai, Kochi, Goa, Vizag and Kolkata among others. Poor high-fliers, the Indian Air Force, did not want to be left out and joined the issue. But they only had an arrangement with the run down Centaur Hotel in Delhi to showcase.