Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.6.2.17 $; site uiucdcsb.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcsb!murthy From: murthy@uiucdcsb.UUCP Newsgroups: net.nlang.india Subject: Re: Recent fare to India Message-ID: <141700002@uiucdcsb.UUCP> Date: Mon, 11-Feb-85 13:49:00 EST Article-I.D.: uiucdcsb.141700002 Posted: Mon Feb 11 13:49:00 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 13-Feb-85 04:20:54 EST References: <90@osu-eddie.UUCP> Lines: 22 Nf-ID: #R:osu-eddie:-9000:uiucdcsb:141700002:000:1190 Nf-From: uiucdcsb!murthy Feb 11 12:49:00 1985 I am rather surprised to see that the fare was as much as $1800. I traveled to India during the same time period. I paid $1350 for a return ticket from Chicago to Hyderabad (India), via New York, London, and Bombay. I traveled by TWA from Chicago to NY, by Air-India from NY to Bombay, and by the Indian Airlines the rest of the way. One should approach Indian Travel Agencies for bargain prices. This is the second time I traveled by Air-India. I liked it very much on my first trip, so I chose it the second time. My experience on flight from Bombay to NY was disturbing. There were two Americans sitting by my side. The cabin crew paid unnecessarily more attention to them than to me. Effectively my needs were ignored while the crew was trying to impress the Americans. I heard that this behavior is typical of Air-India. Non-Indians get better services. Next time I am flying British Airways or PanAm. (It costs the same amount). Getting out of India is now very time consuming and irritating because the Govt is trying to prevent the Sikh militants from leaving the country. At the `exit immigration' your name is fed into a computer. If it clears fine, otherwise you are doomed.