Investor says he appreciates Mumbai more after getting stuck in Bengaluru traffic for 3 hours, missing flight

Ace investor Ashish Kacholia missed his Bengluru to Mumbai flight on Thursday after Google Maps failed to correctly estimate travel time.

Updated on: Aug 30, 2024, 19:50:21 IST

By Sanya Jain

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Ashish Kacholia missed his flight out of Bengaluru (Representational image)

Ace investor Ashish Kacholia missed his Bengluru to Mumbai flight on Thursday after Google Maps failed to correctly estimate the time it would take to reach the airport.

Bengaluru’s Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) is situated a fair distance away from the main city, and its far-flung location has been criticised by many. Kacholia, the co-founder of Hungama Digital, had to travel from Bengaluru’s HSR Layout to KIA, a distance of over 50 km that, according to Google Maps, could be covered in 1 hour and 45 minutes.

Unfortunately for Kacholia, Google Maps failed to take into account Bengaluru’s unpredictable traffic and weather. According to the ace investor, he missed his flight because the journey took twice the estimated time.

While Google Maps told him that he could cover the distance in 1 hour and 45 minutes, the actual journey took 3 hours. Kacholia said that it started raining during the trip.

“Yesterday missed my flight from Bengaluru to Mumbai because journey took 3 hours instead of 1.45 as shown by Google Maps,” he wrote on the social media platform X.

He took a veiled dig at Bengaluru infrastructure by thanking BMC, the municipal corporation of Mumbai. “Deeply grateful to Mumbai administration @mybmc for investing in infrastructure to keep traffic moving in maximum city,” the Mumbai-based investor wrote on X.

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“I think Bangalore is the only place where you can't rely on the travel time shown on Google Maps. Rarely happened in Gurgaon. (Even though I used to commute Gurgaon to Delhi every day),” wrote X user Sanjay Singh.

“Aim to reach the airport 2 hours before take off time at Bangalore. Add another 30 mins if the travel slot is in the peak hour. Commute is the biggest productivity killer in this great city,” another person said.

Ashish Kacholia co-founded Hungama Digital with Rakesh Jhunjhunwala. In 2003, he started his own company called Lucky Securities.

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Sanya Jain is an Assistant Editor with Hindustan Times Digital. She has nearly a decade of experience in covering offbeat stories that speak to the everyday experience - from viral videos to human interest copies that spark conversation. Her interests stretch across business, pop culture, social media trends, entertainment and global affairs. Before joining Hindustan Times, Sanya spent two years with Moneycontrol and five years with NDTV. She holds an undergraduate degree in English literature from St Stephen’s College, Delhi, and a master’s in journalism from the Xavier Institute of Communications, Mumbai. Sanya has a sharp eye for spotting emerging trends and looking for newsworthy angles to elevate viral posts into meaningful narratives. She was the first one, for example, to cover Narayana Murthy’s remark on 70-hour work weeks that sparked a national conversation. She is equally at ease writing about business leaders as about the common man, about issues of national importance and memes that amuse social media. Sanya enjoys speaking with content creators, newsmakers and entrepreneurs to transform everyday moments into engaging, slice-of-life stories that resonate with readers. When she is not working, Sanya can be found curled up with a good book. Born and raised in Lucknow, she has spent the last several years in Delhi. She is deeply interested in animal welfare and now spends a lot of her time running after her destructive orange cat.Read More

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