They spill out from the Downtown East Side, an area of decrepit boarding houses, sleazy bars and boarded-up shops infamous for the country's highest rates of poverty and drug addiction.
The number of boarding groups began to resemble something like a caste system; "change fees," which have always been outrageous, grew higher (two hundred dollars for domestic, three hundred dollars for international), while baggage fees soared to as high as a hundred dollars.
It is understood that those on board had been living in a refugee camp in Tamil Nadu before boarding the boat.
The two of them had a bond with Pink Floyd that dated back to their early days at Cambridge, where Thorgerson had ended up after an early childhood in Potters Bar, and time spent at the famously utopian Summerhill boarding school in Suffolk.
Originally from Nigeria, Simi, 23, came to High Wycombe in 2008, where she attended sixth form at a private boarding school.
Andreas Lubitz, 27, had hidden a sicknote declaring him unfit to work on the day of the disaster before boarding the Düsseldorf-bound Airbus A320 and flying it into a mountain in the southern French Alps, killing all 150 people on board.
Or 20 verses on their earth-shattering memories of the boarding school dormitory, and the epic tug-of-love between Matron and Teddy.
A few weeks after appearing as Rubens' Blue Boy in a fancy dress pageant in the Eumundi school of arts, the boy was dumped in a bleak Catholic boarding school on the outskirts of Brisbane.
Their son Faris spent his childhood holidays in the West Bank playing football with his cousins, whose extended families had been forced to disperse all round the world, and he only got in to boarding school on a scholarship.
Hey ho! (Would it be a little smug of us, at this juncture, to bring up the fact that Badwan was educated at the prestigious boarding school Rugby, alma mater of Neville Chamberlain and the Plebgate star, Tory MP Andrew Mitchell, where the biggest insult you can apparently give someone is to call them a Tanner, meaning a day boy? It would? Oh).
She checked in at Delhi airport, cleared security and had her boarding pass.
