Cheap Flight to India

KathSF · Aug 26th, 2001, 20:32

Travellers from the West Coast, U.S.A. - you can almost always save big bucks ($300-1,000+) by buying the cheapest flight you can find to Bangkok, then buying your flight to India from Bangkok. You don't even have to spend a night in Bangkok (BKK). Just buy your flight to BKK from your own travel agent (travelocity.com has flights for under $600, so don't pay more than that). Then buy your flight from BKK to India (Delhi, Bombay or Calcutta) for under $300 from flights.com, olavi.com, or after you get to Bangkok (if you want a stopover) from most places on Khao San Road (including Olavi travel, for which I've included the web address, above). You can ALMOST ALWAYS get flights from the Western U.S.A to India for under $900.

-m2- · Aug 29th, 2001, 03:08

Sometimes that works out, sometimes not. Flights to India from BKK can be heavily booked. Nov. '99, I couldn't get a ticket to BOM for weeks and wound up wait-listed to Calcutta as a KSR agent said my chances were better. (it worked). No problem in Nov '98 however. From Vancouver, a thru ticket to Bombay roughly the same as going via BKK and 'getting lucky'.

This year I have a free business class ticket with Korean, so no drama in BKK for me.

mike

-m2- · Nov 3rd, 2001, 04:18

It is now early November and safe to say that getting cheap ticket from Bangkok to India should be no problem this season, so KathSF's advice should work fine if you can't find a sub$1000 ticket direct to India. There appears to be a lot of 'deals' to BKK this year as well.

Giving this topic a B U M P

Dec 5th, 2001, 14:50

this is exactly what I want to do - I have enough airmiles to get me from Seattle to BKK, but it's 30,000 more miles to get to the subcontinent. I won't have a lot of time to spare so I will want to get my ticket from BKK to calcutta ahead of time, this thread is a lifesaver. thank you!

picklepak · Dec 6th, 2001, 20:07

I met a girl here last night who had spent some time in Thailand and bought the cheapest flight she could find to India, which was from Bangkok to Calcutta. I think she said it was equivallent to about 7000 Rs/bhat (about the same exchange). Yet she had never been to India before and the experience of Calcutta nearly had fully overwhelmed her; she almost headed home after less than a week.

So maybe for some people the cheapest flight might not be teh best.

Calcutta is a topic for another discussion in another place, I know, and I have not yet been there but for some people they may want to fly into Mumbai if it's their first trip, maybe to ease the shock of it. Mumbai airport had only a fraction of the touts that I had experienced in Delhi, though some people beg to differ. Just something for consideration.

Aug 26th, 2001, 20:32	#1
KathSF Member Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: San Francisco Posts: 37	Cheap Flight to India Travellers from the West Coast, U.S.A. - you can almost always save big bucks ($300-1,000+) by buying the cheapest flight you can find to Bangkok, then buying your flight to India from Bangkok. You don't even have to spend a night in Bangkok (BKK). Just buy your flight to BKK from your own travel agent (travelocity.com has flights for under $600, so don't pay more than that). Then buy your flight from BKK to India (Delhi, Bombay or Calcutta) for under $300 from flights.com, olavi.com, or after you get to Bangkok (if you want a stopover) from most places on Khao San Road (including Olavi travel, for which I've included the web address, above). You can ALMOST ALWAYS get flights from the Western U.S.A to India for under $900. __________________ Happy trails!

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Aug 29th, 2001, 03:08	#2
-m2- . Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: . Posts: 1,575	Sometimes that works out, sometimes not. Flights to India from BKK can be heavily booked. Nov. '99, I couldn't get a ticket to BOM for weeks and wound up wait-listed to Calcutta as a KSR agent said my chances were better. (it worked). No problem in Nov '98 however. From Vancouver, a thru ticket to Bombay roughly the same as going via BKK and 'getting lucky'. This year I have a free business class ticket with Korean, so no drama in BKK for me. mike

Nov 3rd, 2001, 04:18	#3
-m2- . Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: . Posts: 1,575	It is now early November and safe to say that getting cheap ticket from Bangkok to India should be no problem this season, so KathSF's advice should work fine if you can't find a sub$1000 ticket direct to India. There appears to be a lot of 'deals' to BKK this year as well. Giving this topic a B U M P

Dec 5th, 2001, 14:50	#4
driftin Posts: n/a	this is exactly what I want to do - I have enough airmiles to get me from Seattle to BKK, but it's 30,000 more miles to get to the subcontinent. I won't have a lot of time to spare so I will want to get my ticket from BKK to calcutta ahead of time, this thread is a lifesaver. thank you!

Dec 6th, 2001, 20:07	#5
picklepak Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Calgary, Canada Posts: 274	I met a girl here last night who had spent some time in Thailand and bought the cheapest flight she could find to India, which was from Bangkok to Calcutta. I think she said it was equivallent to about 7000 Rs/bhat (about the same exchange). Yet she had never been to India before and the experience of Calcutta nearly had fully overwhelmed her; she almost headed home after less than a week. So maybe for some people the cheapest flight might not be teh best. Calcutta is a topic for another discussion in another place, I know, and I have not yet been there but for some people they may want to fly into Mumbai if it's their first trip, maybe to ease the shock of it. Mumbai airport had only a fraction of the touts that I had experienced in Delhi, though some people beg to differ. Just something for consideration.