Man Helps Elderly Couple On Their First Flight, Internet Is Moved By The Warm Gesture

The elderly couple was travelling by air for the first time and had little clue about what to do, so shah guided them and also bought them sandwiches.

Man helps elderly couple on their first flight

Source : @Amitabh Shah/Linkedin

In a faced-paced life today, taking out time to help someone in need is appreciable. Amitabh Shah, chief inspiration officer of Yuva Unstoppable did exactly that, extended help to an old couple flying for the first time. The heartwarming story shared by Shah on his Linkedin profile is winning hearts on the internet.

Amitabh Shah was flying from Delhi to Kanpur and he spotted an elderly couple who had travelled from a remote village in Uttar Pradesh. Shah shared that the couple had taken a bus to Delhi and looked tired after the eight-hour-long journey. They were also travelling by air for the first time and had little clue about what to do, so he guided them.

“I was on my way to Kanpur yesterday from Delhi Airport. This awesome but tired couple in the picture had a long journey - came from a remote village in UP, rode a bus for 8 hours to get to the Delhi Airport and then boarded a flight to Kanpur with me. I saw them in the boarding area completely clueless and could tell it’s there first time & they didn’t understand English. I walked up to them with a smile and asked them to simply follow me. They thought I worked for the airline,” Shah wrote on LinkedIn, sharing a photo of the couple," shah wrote on Linkedin.

After boarding the flight, the couple asked Shah to click their picture so that they could send it to their daughter to confirm that they are safe.

He wrote, "Inside the flight, they were seated just in front of me. The aunty asked me - 'Can you pls take our picture and send it to our daughter who has a phone with Whatsapp - so she knows we are safe?' I took this pic & sent it."

He further wrote that the couple who were seated in front of him looked hungry but decline to buy food from the air hostess after which he bought them sandwiches. 

"When the Airhostess came to serve food, they declined but clearly seemed hungry and thirsty for hours. I told the air hostess to give them paneer sandwiches and juices & to tell them it was complimentary as they were lucky customers to win a free meal. Of course, I paid for it when they were not seeing it. They simply 'smiled' at me as we landed and went our own ways," Shah wrote.

The heartwarming story was loved by the internet. 

One of the user wrote, "What Amit ji has done today we can do tomorrow atleast who came to know about this incident .We collectively can make huge change in our country for our beloved Indians .If we won't help those kind of people then who will ?This is the remainder that we should come forward and be the example for others .Thanks a ton Amit once again."

"Wonderful gesture .. making fellow "Indians" comfortable in India is the primary responsibility of us all who can. Considering the description of the Couple they must surely be feeling out of place despite being in their own country and among their 'own'. It's our job to not let them feel any different," wrote another.