India - Travel itinerary for a visa to India

Dear All

My wife and I need visas to travel to India (British and Australian passport holders). A prerequisite for the visa application is a flight itinerary/ticket. Does it need to be a ticket or is immigration pretty easy going at BOM for instance even though one may have provided the following itinerary on AA - 2 December ORD/DEL for the visa application but actually ends up flying in on a different itinerary/ticket, say LH on 10 December FRA/DEL. Has anyone experienced such a problem?

Thoughts welcome

From what I've heard, an itinerary is more than sufficient to get the visa. Don't need to provide them with an actual ticket. And I guarantee that once you land in India, the customs officer will not double check your proposed itinerary with your actual one.

the itinerary and a hotel booking is just fine. If you change your itinerary and book different hotels later that doesn't matter either.

From what I've heard, an itinerary is more than sufficient to get the visa. Don't need to provide them with an actual ticket. And I guarantee that once you land in India, the customs officer will not double check your proposed itinerary with your actual one.

the itinerary and a hotel booking is just fine. If you change your itinerary and book different hotels later that doesn't matter either.

i agree....an itinerary is good enough....

Dear All

Thanks for your advice. It is greatly appreciated and I will sleep a bit better now as a result.

Happy travels.