India-based Airlines - Quick advice please:Transit Visa, Interline Agreement for JFK-DEL-KTM on AI and Jet?

My brother bought a ticket for his daughter to fly J from JFK-DEL-KTM a week from Sunday. She'll be on AI for the first leg, connecting to Jet for the second. He got it on Orbitz, and the record he forwarded to me indicates it's one ticket, but only gives a record locator for Jet. It's about a five hour layover between flights.

A few questions:

1. Am I correct in assuming that she won't need a transit visa under these circumstances?
2. Am I also correct in assuming (much less confidently) that AI and Jet have an interline agreement that will allow her luggage to go all the way through?
3. Is it necessary for her to have one ticket for the two flights in order for such an interline agreement to be in effect?
4. Is there a way at DEL for her to check to make sure that her luggage has been loaded on to the Jet plane?

Thanks for any quick advice anyone can offer.

these questions have been asked multiple times before & all the answers are in the thread below:

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/airlines-india/1280562-connections-indian-airports.html

this thread would help as well:

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/india/1127419-international-transit-zone-delhi.html

Keyser, thanks for the links and for taking the time to post the second one after initially answering with the first. But after checking them I'm still unclear on whether the two airlines have an interline agreement (one Jet link indicates no check-in agreement, but that's a different matter), whether she'd need to have a transit visa if she must simply go through immigration to retrieve and re-check her luggage, nor where exactly she'd to in the airport to get check on the luggage and get her Jet boarding pass.

Any answers from you or others re my questions would be very much appreciated.

Keyser, thanks for the links and for taking the time to post the second one after initially answering with the first. But after checking them I'm still unclear on whether the two airlines have an interline agreement (one Jet link indicates no check-in agreement, but that's a different matter), whether she'd need to have a transit visa if she must simply go through immigration to retrieve and re-check her luggage, nor where exactly she'd to in the airport to get check on the luggage and get her Jet boarding pass.

Any answers from you or others re my questions would be very much appreciated.

no problem....i just thought the second link would be more helpful....

i don't believe they have an interline agreement but many here have reported success in asking the second airline to re-check the bags to the final destination....this way they don't have to cross immigration & therefore do not need a visa....

she will need a transit visa if she wants to collect her bags & re-check them in herself....transit visas are valid for 72 hours....

Ok, thanks! Good to know.

i don't believe they have an interline agreement

AI and 9W have an interline agreement.

Are you sure? I just heard from my brother, who called Jet (I believe) and was told no interline.

Are you sure? I just heard from my brother, who called Jet (I believe) and was told no interline.

Absolutely positive.

AI and 9W have an interline agreement.

funny....i asked at the airport last summer if they did & they said no....i was connecting from an ai to 9w flight....i had to collect my luggage & re-book it for the second flight....

funny....i asked at the airport last summer if they did & they said no....i was connecting from an ai to 9w flight....i had to collect my luggage & re-book it for the second flight....

The agreement exists.

What airport agents do in relation to it is often an entirely different matter. :D

The agreement exists.

What airport agents do in relation to it is often an entirely different matter. :D

This. I've been able to interline to AI from another carrier, but not from AI to the other carrier. It may be a lack of training, or... something in the AI water.

The agreement exists.

What airport agents do in relation to it is often an entirely different matter. :D

This. I've been able to interline to AI from another carrier, but not from AI to the other carrier. It may be a lack of training, or... something in the AI water.

And that's why we decided to route her differently with a different ticket on other carriers...too much uncertainty in what will actually happen on the ground, and all of the other complications that could ripple out from this, especially for a 19 year-old who'll be traveling internationally alone for the first time.

Anyway, thanks again for all of the replies and info. Much appreciated!

It may be a lack of training, or... something in the AI water.

No, it is the "prosecution culture" at Air India (and many other third world state-owned carriers). Employees are scared of being held liable for mistakes so they just don't do anything.

a) Manager is clueless/incompetent
b) Manager therefore fails to give clear instructions
c) Employee knows that if they do the wrong thing (which may actually be the right thing but perceived as wrong by clueless/incompetent manager) they will be held responsible
d) Employee prefers to say "no" and avoid any possibility of having done the wrong thing in the absence of specific instructions from clueless/incompetent manager to cover their backsides with
e) Clueless/incompetent manager is on tea break
f) You miss the flight

If they did now have an internline then you would not have been able to book it all in one booking.

If they did now have an internline then you would not have been able to book it all in one booking.

not true....on ta websites you can make a reservation on multiple airlines in one booking, whether they have an interline agreement or not....