Silverswimmer, Most likely the charges were blocked by Kingfisher itself and never submitted to any bank, foreign or Indian, in the first place. Please see my first post in the following thread: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/airli...s-portals.html

I had meant that thread as a 1-stop lounge for a current snapshot of foreign card acceptance by Indian portals. I haven't updated it, but plan to do it somewhat regularly.

d3vski, I understand that you have no choice but to stand up for IT for personal reasons, so no comment.