When you "moved" to India did you get yourself a one way ticket?

eater

So many IMers have moved or settled or emigrated to India, I wondered if they bought a "return" air ticket or a one way ticket.

I am planning soon to move (from Canada) and am wondering if I should try to get a one way fare price. Then if I want to come back for a visit, I could buy a return ticket from India.

As our Allidina High School teacher Mr Joseph used to say: Please discuss...

Would appreciate your thoughts...and "reality" experience...

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Nick-H

No. I needed to come back on the same flight as Mrs N from London because she needed to go to London on the same flight as I did... the zigzag goes back several flights.

And British Airways charge about triple for a single flight, so I got a return with a more-or-less random date towards the end of their booking period next year. Maybe I'll use it, maybe I'll just change the date on it when it comes around.

Next time I go back to London I may well choose a cheaper one-way back to India on another airline if available, but direct flights (BA only at present) are a big attraction.

GoanCanuck

Better to buy a one way ticket. International air tickets are cheaper when purchased in India.

eater

GCanuck, txs for your thoughts.....just did a quick search, seems like one way ticket is more costly than a return

I remember reading in another thread here that one ends up buying a return ticket and throwing away the return portion

What I read about I think was someone buying a charter flight from UK to Goa and discarding the return portion.....this worked out lower in price than a economy return.

I haven't come across "charter" flights from Montreal to Mumbai..

Brigit

I always want the return anyway. A year return to Dehli is much more exspensive than a shorter ticket, or a one way, and then if there any problems at home, mother father sister, I can get home with worrying about were to find thousands of rups.
Besides I run away from the heat in Rajathan once a year.So I come home to the heat (gods my sun burn hurts) and work like a blue a$$ed fly

static1635

In the regirements for entry into India it states that you need proof of onward travel. I was going to get a long term return, which are more expensive than short return.

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gregornot

Ahola,
I was told that you had to have an exit tricket when you entered from the USA. So my plan was to buy my ticket to India (can't get there without one) and then a bus ticket just across from India to Lumbini, Nepal.

Then sit and serve a course of Vipassana, then I would have $$ to buy a open ended ticket back to the states.

Does a one way cost more than 1/2 of a roundtrip? What kind of hassel do you have to go thru to get an open ended ticket for return. Does it have to have leaving airport( I would think so and can it be for like 8 months later. I would do the Lumbini trip again after six months as I plan on spending a lot of time in the Buddha Circuit sitting and serving at various Goenka Vipassana Centers, while tring to learn some of the local language.

Hope that this old dog can learn some new growls, spoke fluent Spanish when I was a kid, when I went back down south found that that part of my memory was over writtrn by the '60s


write at you later, gregornot

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Nick-H

I haven't heard of immigration officials even looking at air tickets, in or out!
a one-way on British Airways, London -> Chennai costs three times the price of a return. Other airlines I've seen 3/4 or 3/5 or so the return fare. No idea about USA.

MoritzK

Does Air India fly from Europe/U.S.? My one way ticket from Bangkok to Bombay was about 4000 Rs. less than a return ticket.

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GoanCanuck

Yes, Air India does fly to Europe and North America and the one-way tickets on Air India are cheaper than the return tickets.

GoanCanuck

Just phoned the travel agent and I can confirm that the one way tickets are cheaper than the return tickets as far as departures from Toronto and Vancover to Delhi/Mumbai are concerned.

Toronto-Delhi.......one-way ticket with late September departure is $1050 plus taxes

Toronto-Delhi........... return ticket with a similar departure date is $1295 plus taxes

Brigit

So that makes a return cheeper if you plan to return anytime close to a year. I always figure its best to do that than wind up paying £700 instead of £400.
I've never had my ticket checked, and if they did want to check your ticket, just tell them your planing to leave over land and have yet to pick up that ticket ect.

eater

Now this is a bargain:

Virgin Airlines is offering INR 16,000 + taxes return Mumbai to London, travel between June and Sept. Maximum stay 12 months.


http://www.virgin-atlantic.com/en/in..._to_london.jsp

Nick-H

If it was here, that plus taxes would add over 7,000 ---nearly 50%! I think it is dishonest to advertise ex-tax prices, especially when the tax is more than a trivial percentage.

Maybe 23,000 is still a good price, though!

eater

Virgin Airlines is offering INR 16,500 + taxes return Mumbai to London, travel between June and Sept. Maximum stay 12 months.

http://www.virgin-atlantic.com/en/in..._to_london.jsp

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Originally Posted by Nick-H If it was here, that plus taxes would add over 7,000 ---nearly 50%! I think it is dishonest to advertise ex-tax prices, especially when the tax is more than a trivial percentage. Maybe 23,000 is still a good price, though!

You're right, Nick-H, there are taxes from Mumbai for example INR 9000 - so Mumbai - London Mumbai comes to about 26,000 INR.

This works out at just over 300 pounds return..... Cheers !