Im having a hard time figuring out how to book an Indian Airline flight.

Im looking to book the direct BLR-MLE on 16th of December coming back MLE-BLR on 23rd of December.

ITA and other sites quote a fare of 427.50 USD with a fare code of WE3M.

However, these sites can’t book it and keeps telling me to book it on IC’s website. But every time I go to their website it seems it won’t let me book International flights.

How do I book this flight?
Do I call Indian Airlines in India?
Is there still Fare Discrimination for foreigners?
Is this the cheapest fare?

Thanks for the input.


Drew

you could try:
http://www.indian-airlines.nic.in/scripts/op_gsas.aspx

or talk to a local travel agent.

Im having a hard time figuring out how to book an Indian Airline flight.

Im looking to book the direct BLR-MLE on 16th of December coming back MLE-BLR on 23rd of December.

ITA and other sites quote a fare of 427.50 USD with a fare code of WE3M.

However, these sites can’t book it and keeps telling me to book it on IC’s website. But every time I go to their website it seems it won’t let me book International flights.

How do I book this flight?
Do I call Indian Airlines in India?
Is there still Fare Discrimination for foreigners?
Is this the cheapest fare?

Thanks for the input.


DrewThe IC website (will be merged with AI's) doesn't show any foreign destinations. http://www.indianairlines.in/home.asp

You can call them, or if you have a company or individual sponsoring you, they can arrange the ticket, as there *still* appears to be fare discrimination for foreigners, especially when they see your foreign credit card!

Thus, book through a TA. If you need one, PM me, and I can direct you.

ITA usually gives you the cheapest fares, although not always some special airline website internet-only fares, like LH and SK might have online...

We had the same problem booking IC flights earlier this year - in fact the lowest fares we could find were via IC's website (much cheaper even than what our TA could do and we have a really good one).

In the end we simply called the IC GSA in Australia and the ticketing was done over the phone (even for an 'internet fare') and we got our tickets the next day. Couldn't have been easier.

Looks like IC has GSAs in most countries (details via their website).

Regards

LME ff etc etc