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India: Is the season to blame?

topic posted Wed, June 13, 2007 - 5:52 PM by  Daniel 		Share/Save/Bookmark
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Hey, all,

I just happened to try a Kayak search for tickets from the Bay Area to India leaving in late January '08 and returning a few weeks later, and I was surprised to find nothing for less than around $1400, which seems fairly steep. I've never flown to India from the States before, so I guess I don't know what to expect.

Is this just a typical high season price? Am I likely to find anything cheaper if I adjust by a few weeks? Any other advice?

I'm inclined to wait a few months and start checking with bucket shops.
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  • miri
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    Re: India: Is the season to blame?

    Thu, June 14, 2007 - 6:18 PM
    as commented above, fuel prices have gone up and your time for travel is the high season...

    but both the Romanian and Turkish airlines can be substantially cheaper than traditional Western air carriers... so you just might want to the explore the route of fnding a reasonably priced ticket to europe (which will be cheaper in winter because it's winter) and then use one of the non-traditionals, i.e. turkish air, to get to India
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  • Krishna
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    Re: India: Is the season to blame?

    Fri, June 15, 2007 - 8:22 AM
    Get a cheap flight to Bangkok, then make the jump! Fuel is way up! and it's the season. Philippine Air is $905.to Bangkok RT..then a hundie to India!

    Have a great trip, Krishna
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    • Daniel
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      Re: India: Is the season to blame?

      Fri, June 15, 2007 - 8:44 AM
      Yeah, I was considering something like that. It's weird, I've flown from the Bay Area to SE and East Asia a whole bunch of times, and never paid more than around $1000, so I was just a little surprised by the difference. Of course, I realize that there is a significant distance between the two.

      Also, for those who're curious, flights to India are substantially cheaper from NYC than from the West Coast, to the tune of around $400 less--coincidentally, about the cost of a coast-to-coast ticket, so there's no savings bandwagon to be jumped on there.

      It looks like flights into Mumbai are a little cheaper than those into Delhi. So I think I'm probably just going to shell out $1200-something and be done with it, rather than hanging out for an all-day layover in Bucuresti, as tempting as that sounds. I assume domestic air travel within India is cheap enough?
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      • Margot
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        Re: India: Is the season to blame?

        Tue, June 19, 2007 - 5:58 AM
        hmmm. flights within India are fairly cheap, but some companies have higher prices for non-residents (charged in US $).

        Check out yatra.com or makemytip.com for local fares, 'though bear in mind taht you won't qualify for all the fares.
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        • Ché
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          Re: India: Is the season to blame?

          Tue, June 19, 2007 - 6:04 PM
          flights within india are cheap, sure, but only for the natives. I booked a flight from kochi to bhubaneshwar: it was $100 one-way for natives, but they had a whole other list for us "foreigners": i had to pay almost $400!!! And that's for a ONE-WAY TICKET. And the worst was that it wasn't even direct. I had a layover in Chennai. And i hate that indian policy how you can't go to the gate until like ... one hour before your flight leaves. So you're just kind of milling around, doing nothing.

          I would do research. If you can get someone else to swing you some specials, that would rock the casbah!
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          • Margot
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            Re: India: Is the season to blame?

            Tue, June 26, 2007 - 1:51 AM
            again as I said in my above post, it depends on the airlines. I have a friend who was non-resident and he payed the same price I would pay as a resident....but on Air India he and I would have been charged very different rates.
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  • *Sarah*
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    Re: India: Is the season to blame?

    Mon, June 25, 2007 - 7:12 PM
    $1400 is about the median. I've gotten $1150 tickets in the low season, and have seen them as high as $1700.
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    • Ché
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      Re: India: Is the season to blame?

      Mon, July 9, 2007 - 12:36 PM
      my friend found a direct flight to delhi from dc for $900. I don't remember what airline though. I should ask
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      • Theresi
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        Re: India: Is the season to blame?

        Tue, July 17, 2007 - 1:50 PM
        I went to priceline, saw the lowest price I could get for October to India, then went instead, direct to that airline's website, and got it even cheaper. I saw on Delta for three weeks in October for $1175. Leave SFO to BOM.
        As for "Name your price" with "name your price" the taxes made it just as expensive as if I paid full price. They only gave me "Name your price" option of flying into Delhi and not into Mumbai, it seems cheaper to fly into Mumbai. I took 40% off the asking price and then there were like $300 in taxes and such. Maybe I did something wrong.
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