Is this one ticket or two tickets (one for CO, one for 9w)?

Anyways, for EWR-BOM-HYD:
Ask CO at EWR to tag your luggage till HYD. Have your ticket details ready if its two tickets.
You will clear passport control at BOM, collect your bag at BOM, then clear customs at BOM. Then you have to take a bus to transfer to the domestic airport at BOM (its the same terminal technically, but you cannot walk to the other terminal). In order to get on that bus, you need to keep your 9W tickets in printed form (it can simply be an itinerary....but something in print is required).
If you dont know where the bus leaves from, ask the information desk.

You can also take a taxi or a rickshaw for this transfer. I highly suggest the bus if you are a BOM newbie.

You have to clear security at EWR and BOM (domestic airport). Remember, liquid restrictions will apply at BOM domestic security. So, if buy bottles of alcohol, etc..put it in your checked bag.

Deposit your luggage at 9w BOM check-in.


For MAA-BOM-EWR: Ask 9W to tag your bag all the way. If they tag it, your bag will eventually come to the international airport. CO will however not let you check-in without your ID-ing your luggage. If the bag is getting delayed in transfer, you can ask for a BP, clear passport/security and get a bag tag later.

If 9W does not tag it all the way, you need to collect bag at BOM airport, lug it with you on the transfer bus; re-check-in with CO at BOM international.

You will clear domestic security at MAA; then, clear passport control and security at BOM.
Again remember to keep your printed tickets....in order to get into the airport at MAA and on the bus at BOM.


For this transfer 3-hours will be barely sufficient. Less than that, you are pushing your luck. Some people have done it under 3 hours.

Good luck. Keep us posted.