Amsterdam - Goa? Charters? Where? How?



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Old Jun 29th, 2007, 01:48   #16
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cheers boefje, will check it out
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Old Jun 29th, 2007, 02:09   #17
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Lufthansa and Air France fly to Goa too.
No, they do not. You have to get down at Mumbai and take a domestic flight.
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Old Jun 29th, 2007, 02:14   #18
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Have you checked out KLM? This is what I found:

Amsterdam - Schiphol (AMS) To Goa - Dabolim (GOI).

That is not a direct KLM flight to Goa. The klm operated flight is to Mumbai. You will then be transferred to a domestic flight operated by Jet Airways.
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Old Jun 29th, 2007, 02:16   #19
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could it be that you were searching for flights from Amsterdam to GOA? Well if I am searching for that I am getting exactly the same prices you've mentioned... but I would end up in Genua - I wouldn't mind a plate of pasta and a glass of red wine...

But Goa's airport has the code GOI - and those tix are much costlier (from AMS)

And we still have no charter from there...
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I found no booking sites or telephone numbers. Normal travel sites, like Expedia, do not seem to list charters flights.
Here you go,

http://www.charterflights.co.uk/flights/india/goa/

http://www.goacharters.co.uk/Last_Minute_Flights.htm
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I think thats the most convenient way - going over to Gatwick and hop onto the charter...
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Old Jun 29th, 2007, 04:09   #22
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could it be that you were searching for flights from Amsterdam to GOA? Well if I am searching for that I am getting exactly the same prices you've mentioned... but I would end up in Genua
Yes, it defaults to the latter. Too bad Boefje, it sounded too good to be true...
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I'm flying Goa-Colombo-London in September Rs.33200 (http://www.xe.com/ucc/) return Srilankan air.
http://wwi.srilankan.aero/travelplanner/scheduling.asp

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Old Jun 30th, 2007, 02:45   #24
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Not really ... I was searching for GOA and KLM gave me GOA (Danolim). I doublt there is a place in Genua named Danolim!!! Glad you've have found other option...happy to help.
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Birds, here is a tip too.

My mum who is 68, can't read or write, only speaks Hindi and Tamil, can't walk 100 mtrs without taking a break came to visit me last June. She flew from Chennai to Amsterdam with Lufthansa. I had requested that she be escorted and had also requested help with translation. She was taken very good care of both ways. The staff wheeled her everywhere - so much so that she missed her connecting flight to Ams. But they made sure that she got on the next one - an hour later. The ground staff stayed with her until she was completely boarded. She was also wheeled to the meet & greet area at Schiphol. On the way back to Chennai (at Frankfurt airport) you would have to go down a few steps. The Lufthansa staff asked her to sit on a chair and two male ground staff carried her down the stairs (mind you at 4 ft. nothing, she is no light weight). They were very courteous and they even called me when my mum missed the connecting flight.

Let me tell you, before she visited me, my mum was in the hospital in the intensive care for almost a fortnight and I thought she wouldn't make it. But with the good care of the Lufthansa staff, she made it to Amsterdam and back.

The moral of this long story is...if there are no direct flights, you could request that your mum be escorted. They do that with almost all airlines.

I hope this has been helpful.
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