FYI: Tomorrow (Saturday) is last day to issue tickets for Air-India Delhi promotion. ( usnycus hurry-up)

PatelFromIndia and others,

My mother is planning to visit us from Mumbai to Atlanta. What would be appx. fare for her travel BOM-ATL (last week of May) and return back ATL-BOM (first week of Sept) for 4 month return ticket. Date are flexible. So please suggest, if dates needs to be moved earlier or later to get better price.

Thanks...

Hi,
I'm looking to go to India (New Delhi) from New York (JFK or LGA) on July 15 2006 or ASAP afer that, and then looking to return on August 21 2006. Do I need to get a travel agent even for such a straightforward route? Any suggestions or ideas on where to look for a cheap ticket (I'm a poor undergrad!) will be appreciated, thanks!

Thanks for the information about AirFrance promotion. Any idea, how much would be ticket cost for 4 month excursion including tax?

Mumbai-Atlanta 3rd of last week of May
Atlanta-Mumbai 1st or 2nd week of Sept

Trying to understand, what is a good fare ? What to look for?

PatelFromIndia - Please check for your PM.

Regards,
Gaurav

jziqbal said:Anyone know any travel agents who have good fares to Pakistan, am thinking of going Orlando - Pak - Dubai - London - Orlando.

Thanks.
Check with TradeWings and fly4less.

AGENT BULLETIN UPDATES 2006/05/01
2006-05-01 If you are thinking to buy Air-India tickets during May first week then hurry up and buy it. Air-India is increasing Fuel Surcharge on/after 8th May which will be approx $30 to $68 increase to existing $200 (average) fuel Surcharge. This will apply to ticket issued on/after 8th May 2006.

If you have planned to travel with Air-India between 11th May to 25 May and have received quote from your agent before 1st May and have not purchased ticket yet, then please go back to your agent and ask him to re-quote it, because on 1st May bulletin, Air-India extended 11th May promotion up to 25th May, and you will be saving around $100. If your agent is not honest then he may not reveal this to you and that $100 can go to his pocket. If your ticket has been already issued on/before 30th April 2006 then nothing can be done.

freekie said:Hello

Am looking to book tickets for my parents from Bangalore to Seattle departing end of June and returning to India in the end of August. Need to come via London with a stopover in London. Will be great if someone can answer the following-

1. Will the stopover increase the fare. If yes, are there some days of the week on which it wont cost too much extra

2. Will buying the ticket from India be cheaper? Will a travel agent be cheaper ? Have been looking for fares on expedia.com , airlineconsolidator.com , kayak.com , makemytrip.com and ba.com - the difference in fares isnt much among all of these sites. Am wondering if the "buy from travel agent- its cheaper" is really true anymore ?

3. Does Brit Airways have more restrictive rules and different agents than the other airlines. On earlier occasions, some US travel agents told me they dont deal with BA tickets.

First, let me ask you if you ever read the FAQ section in this forum? That definitely answers soem of your questions.
Here is my take. Mr Patel must be able to better answer though.
1. Yes but depends on where you are taking the stopover and more than likely you have to deal with local immigration and that will definitely raise your overall trip cost.

2. Once again depends on airline. One of my friend got his tkts from India for 1k where everyone of us paid like 1.2k and up. BUT take that with a pinch of salt since the tkt was in Alitalia (aka, Airplane Lands In Turin And Luggage In Ancona or Always Late In Take-off Always Late In Arrival).
I can not give you any concrete advice about your purchase place of tickets. With agents, you will most likely get teh best fare plus a custom built itenary. Regarding your trip, you can do alot of adjustments thru your agents.
On a negative side, once you purchase your tickets, you have to run to your agents door if you need to make any change. And any kind of refund is almost an impossible affair.

3. BA has some weired rules in terms of visa requirement. As for example, you have to have a transit visa unless you have H1B visa with return tickets or a green card. If you dont have either of them and you are not from some "white" countries, be ready to shell out 70 bucks for your transit visa before you start the travel. Their visa is processed by a third party which does not reply to emails and charge big $$ for phone call. There is a reason quite a few agents try to avoid BA.

If you guys are thinking of buying tickets to India be sure to PM PatelFromIndia first. He was able to get me great rates and would always respond instantly to my e-mails. I have to say it was the best service I've ever received from a travel agent and I got lots of useful advice as well.

Prasant,
All are talking via LAX because only Air-India comes lowest via LAX Gateway (as I mentioned in one of the past post) plus air-india also has seat availibilty. If other airlines has lower price but, if seat is not available based on sale fare class then that low price does not make any meaning.

Why would you like to go via different route? For the date range which you have choosen, going via any other Gateway increases $250 for this perticular time period. Is it worth? To make it worth, you can take stopover.

bozo007,
I agree, People should not post their specific travel request in this thread because we want to keep this thread for general information which can be useful to all people, not for a specific travel request which turns out quote request inside this thread. People hates reading long long threads and finally it turns out crap. Passenger trains are always shorter then goods trains.