oliver2002: Thank you. It is just that MAA is about 4-5 hours by road from the final destination, whereas TRZ is about 2 hours or less. They have relatives in TRZ where they can just drop their luggage and even take a local bus or train to their final destination. This will avoid a 9 hour round trip to MAA for picking them up.
Almost all non-gulf flights arrive in the middle of the night, and the first flight to TRZ is not until 10:00am. There's not enough time for a hotel stay. If they have a direct flight from DEL or BOM to TRZ, it would be ideal. But sadly TRZ has more flights to KUL and SIN than to MAA and no flights to any other destination in India.
Also in consideration is flying out of YVR, where round trip to SIN go for less than $500 at times, and the overall cost is cheaper all the way to TRZ even with a one-way rental car from SEA (where I live) to YVR. There's not much of a time penalty for this either compared to a stop in DEL/BOM/MAA.
Last edited by dministrator; Jun 13, 2017 at 2:27 pm