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Airlines flying to India?
Calling around Indian travel agents for a Chicago-Delhi flight I
notice that everyone is offering Kuwait Airways or Air India. I mean, ou almost have to rudely pressurize them even to get a quote on a European carrier, let alone another Asian one. (For example by calling a Turkish agent I found a competitive quote on Turkish, but Indian agents had not suggested it as a possibility.) This seems different from my memories of a few years ago. People routinely quoted at least the European majors and occasionally Singapore. Has anyone researched this? Are there unheralded good deals available on the likes of Alitalia, SAS, Swiss, Thai, Malaysian, Garuda, Lanka, etc? Do I have to seek out and call each one's consolidators separately? |
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Airlines flying to India?
air canada from toronto now has a flight direct, non-stop to delhi over the
pole - i think it's 14 hours - just fyi thomas "Ajanta" wrote in message ... Calling around Indian travel agents for a Chicago-Delhi flight I notice that everyone is offering Kuwait Airways or Air India. I mean, ou almost have to rudely pressurize them even to get a quote on a European carrier, let alone another Asian one. (For example by calling a Turkish agent I found a competitive quote on Turkish, but Indian agents had not suggested it as a possibility.) This seems different from my memories of a few years ago. People routinely quoted at least the European majors and occasionally Singapore. Has anyone researched this? Are there unheralded good deals available on the likes of Alitalia, SAS, Swiss, Thai, Malaysian, Garuda, Lanka, etc? Do I have to seek out and call each one's consolidators separately? |
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Kalathiparambil wrote:
air canada from toronto now has a flight direct, non-stop to delhi over the pole - i think it's 14 hours - just fyi Thanks, good to know that. Do they go to Bombay too? |
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Kalathiparambil wrote:
air canada from toronto now has a flight direct, non-stop to delhi over the pole - i think it's 14 hours - just fyi Thanks, good to know that. Do they go to Bombay too? |
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no, not direct, i think they fly via amsterdam or london. - but they might
fly cheaper... as for me, i fly air canada then emirates via dubai direct to south india (cochin)... a great flight and great service! "Ajanta" wrote in message ... Kalathiparambil wrote: air canada from toronto now has a flight direct, non-stop to delhi over the pole - i think it's 14 hours - just fyi Thanks, good to know that. Do they go to Bombay too? |
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On 3 Aug 2004 17:24:22 GMT, the renowned QPX wrote:
PS Except in Indian English, one does not "pressurize" a person because of laws against causing bodily harm. You pressurize an airplane, but you "pressure" a person. It "sounds" like British usage to me, but the American Heritage dictionary recognizes the usage: http://www.bartleby.com/61/42/P0544200.html Best regards, Spehro Pefhany -- "it's the network..." "The Journey is the reward" Info for manufacturers: http://www.trexon.com Embedded software/hardware/analog Info for designers: http://www.speff.com |
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On 3 Aug 2004 17:24:22 GMT, the renowned QPX wrote:
PS Except in Indian English, one does not "pressurize" a person because of laws against causing bodily harm. You pressurize an airplane, but you "pressure" a person. It "sounds" like British usage to me, but the American Heritage dictionary recognizes the usage: http://www.bartleby.com/61/42/P0544200.html Best regards, Spehro Pefhany -- "it's the network..." "The Journey is the reward" Info for manufacturers: http://www.trexon.com Embedded software/hardware/analog Info for designers: http://www.speff.com |
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QPX wrote:
PS Except in Indian English, one does not "pressurize" a person Indian English is just fine with me. Of course so are other dialects if people wish to employ them instead. |
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QPX wrote:
PS Except in Indian English, one does not "pressurize" a person Indian English is just fine with me. Of course so are other dialects if people wish to employ them instead. |
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QPX wrote:
"Ethnic" travel agents deal mostly in one or two cheap airlines because consolidating requires large volume sales...If you want research and you want to be picky, you'll have to do it yourself or pay a full service agent a significant fee to do it. This explains why one agency deals with only or two airlines. However, it does not explain why they all deal with the same airlines! In case of India, I accept that all agents will quote Air India, because a large number of passengers are comfortable with it due to food or language or better connections back home. However, it is surprising why everybody has seemingly settled on Kuwait as the other carrier. I'd have thought that while some agents have better relations with Kuwait, others may have with Jordanian or Turkish or Alitalia. For some reason, that is not the case right now. |
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