WGretzky

Hello All!
Trying to book my parents a trip to india for Jan - March 2016. Our routing/segents will be:
1) YOW-EWR (ua)
2)EWR-BOM (UA)
3)BOM-DEL (AI or Jet Airways)
4)DEL-YYZ (AC)
5)YYZ-YOW (AC)

my parents will be travelling with 2 pieces of luggage each which is ok for the outbound to india and inbound to canada flights. However, for the internal flight fro BOM-DEL the luggage allowance for economy is only 1 bag at 15kg for both carriers (AI and Jet). for both carriers, I see an option to pay for additional luggage per kg but cant find an option to buy an additional bag.

Can anyone advise what the best and most cost effective way is to book this ticket to allow for 2 pieces of luggage?
thanks

Keyser

sign up for the flying returns frequent flyer program & you will be allowed an additional 10kgs on all ai flights....

SuperFlyBoy

(Per person)

Also note that new standard domestic allowance on AI is 25 kgs. - Just announced a few days ago.

If both can be combined, you are looking at an allowance of 35 kgs. per person.

Keyser

keep in mind that the increased allowance is only valid till 7th feb so if the op's parents are flying after that then the allowance will be back to 15kgs....

SuperFlyBoy

Interesting - I thought they were pushing that allowance as a competitive advantage...

WGretzky

Hey guys thanks for the responses.

So I called jet airways and air India and received more info;

Jet airways
- when I called the call centre the gentleman said that if I were to book the flights at the call centre by paying $ US or CAD then my parents would be allowed 2 pieces of luggage at 23kg each. However I couldn't find any corroborating information on Jet's website. Not sure if the guy was taking me for a ride or not.
fare; $135 one way all in

Air india
- cheapest economy fare - entitled to 15kg and anything over is charged 250 rupees per kg. there was a higher economy class fare available which increased allowance by 5 kg to 20kg
Total fare; $CAD 257 for cheapest economy and $287 for higher economy.

Best option would be jet but not sure how accurate the guys info was.

SuperFlyBoy

Appears to me to be a clueless character, based on what he stated - but you never know! (It might be valid! )

You were correct in attempting to ascertain the facts.

However, if they are willing to annotate the PNR - as you would be doing it through their call center, I would book it then. Cheaper anyway.

If you do it, call back again with another agent to see if they did the notation, else cancel.

More bizarre information, but hey - it's India!

Lalji

Unless there is stopover between the international flights & domestic flights, the baggage will be same for the whole route i.e. 2x23kg for international & domestic.

I regularly fly London-Mumbai-Bhuj(Gujarat) on JetAirways with connecting flights & have 2x23kg luggage.
Only when I stopover for a day or 2 in Mumbai then my domestic luggage allowance changes.

zeebanker

Increased luggage allowance for paying USD/CAD is true. I was offered the same option on IndiGo airlines last year. However the USD price quoted was about $100 or so higher than the INR price for the same flight. I did the math and figured the excess charge for the second bag would be something like $25 if I paid at the domestic checkin in India, so I declined.

Call them and do the math on the fares - if the same whether paid in CAD or INR, or within a reasonable amount, I'd go for it.