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From: welch@osu-eddie.UUCP (Arun Welch)
Newsgroups: net.nlang.india
Subject: Recent fare to India
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Date: Thu, 7-Feb-85 20:17:44 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb  7 20:17:44 1985
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Organization: Ohio State Univ., CIS Dept., Cols, Oh.
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I just went to India for Christmas, and I flew a combination of TWA
and Air India. I flew TWA to New York from Columbus, then Air India
from New York to New Delhi. On the way back I flew Air India from
New Delhi to Frankfurt, and then TWA to New York to Columbus. It cost
about $1800 for the trip. My sister flew the from New Orleans to New
York to New Delhi, and then back the same way, flying Air India for the
international sections and Eastern for the domestic, but her ticket was
only ~$1300. I don't know why there was such a discrepancy between the
two, unless TWA is incredibly expensive. Personally, I much preferred
the service on Air India. It was the best service I've had in years, on
any airline! 
 One word of warning. New Delhi Airport is a real pain to fly out of
the country from. You have to pay an airport tax of Rs. 100, then stand
in line to check in (on a passenger list, no less, not a CRT terminal), then
stand in line for immigration, then stand in line for Customs (too leave the
country!), then stand in line to get your seat assignment, then stand in 
line to go through security, then stand in line to get on a bus which drives
you out to your plane out on the apron. All this takes at least 2 hours,
and at each point your name gets checked off on a copy of a passenger list.
It gets really tiresome after a while. I suspect that you have to go through
the same thing in the other international airports, but I may be wrong. 
 Otherwise, I had a great trip, and the dollar being so strong, I came back
with full suitcases. The conversion rate was somewhere around Rs. 12.50 for
$1.00.  
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       Arun Welch
       Ohio State University
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