Originally Posted by
miles_navigator
Thanks all for the suggestions. No luck in DEL or BOM routing. Looks like AY inventory out of HEL to USA was phantom award space.
Ended up paying the exorbitant BA YQ for J out of BLR to LHR connection and then onwards to USA. I guess no fog issues out of BLR but not keen on them connecting in LHR in a little under 2 hours. At least it is BA to BA T5.
BLR does get fog in twilight hours.. often 6am-8am departures are delayed (domestic atleast).. it's much much lesser than DEL and hardly anything in last 3-4 years.. I'd recommend keeping LHR connecting times for atleast 3-4 hrs as backup..
Did you try EY award routing? I'm assuming QR showed nil as usual.. If flying to US west coast - BLR now has a JL flight to NRT that might be useful?