Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site osu-eddie.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!harpo!whuxlm!whuxl!houxm!ihnp4!cbosgd!osu-eddie!welch From: welch@osu-eddie.UUCP (Arun Welch) Newsgroups: net.nlang.india Subject: Recent fare to India Message-ID: <90@osu-eddie.UUCP> Date: Thu, 7-Feb-85 20:17:44 EST Article-I.D.: osu-eddi.90 Posted: Thu Feb 7 20:17:44 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 9-Feb-85 00:56:40 EST Distribution: na Organization: Ohio State Univ., CIS Dept., Cols, Oh. Lines: 29 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. -- Arun Welch Ohio State University ...!cbosgd!osu-eddie!welch