Originally Posted by zakami
LON-DEL is one of the hardest routes to get an award seat on, specially if you are trying for Business on BA. They actually sell seats on this route! Have you looked into flying TK via IST? They might even allow a layover in IST. The only other options are to try and go to BOM on BA or Swiss and see if you can take a cheap internal flight.
London-Delhi in Business used to be rarely sold out or even close to fill on most flights until Q4 2002. Now it's often full (although I see more than one or two empty seats often enough).
One thing to note for future reference, buy your tickets on BA in business from India to the US (if that is what you really need). You can get some great sub 3500 fares roundtrip that way. I-fares for 4000 dollars or less from the East Coast to Delhi on BA are routinely available also.
Flying Swiss to Delhi is not an option anymore as it no longer flies the route -- talk about a stupid time to pull out!
Flying Turkish from Europe to Delhi on award tickets was not allowed last year -- even after the summer of 2003 award changes.