Not to hijack this thread, but this thread is very pertinent to my situation.

I would like to book a special "I am Turning 50" reward flight so that I may experience international F class before it becomes unavailable forever to mere point collectors like me.

This is all on one ticket. No stopovers. No checked luggage. I am a Canadian citizen holding a valid passport.

YUL-MUC on LH in F (3 hour layover)-BOM on LH in F (3 hour layover)-BKK in J in AI.

I am sure that the checkin agent in YUL will not say anything about an Indian transit visa and that I will receive my boarding passes for all onward connections. A visa is not required for Thailand. I have read about INTL-INTL connection in BOM and it seems that I will have no difficulty on the ground in BOM making the connection bypassing Indian customs and immigration (though admittedly I am not sure about this).

But I am concerned the gate agent in MUC will ask for at least a transit visa before he/she will board me to BOM. I am pretty sure that is what happened the last time I travelled on LH to India, albeit under different circumstances. Obtaining a transit visa is impractical since LH only releases these F seats 10-14 days in advance and it would take longer than that to obtain a transit visa. I could of course obtain a regular visa in advance but that has its own set of impracticalities.

Is the above routing through India safe to book without a transit visa? Any thoughts would be appreciated from my FlyerTalk friends.