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Old Aug 10, 2010 | 6:00 am
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Hi all,

I will probably need to connect in India during winter (first week of December), and a lot of reading is scaring me a bit about connection chaos.

I have a choice between connecting in Mumbai, Bangalore or Delhi. Or, I can avoid connection in India altogether, although this is going to impact negatively on my frequent flyer balance

Is crossing any of these three airports feasible? Is crossing any of them as awful as I read on several threads?

Please advise

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Old Aug 10, 2010 | 7:34 am
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INTL-INTL connect in DEL and BOM should be an OK experience. DOM-INTL in DEL or BOM is not for the faint hearted.

BLR is all one building/terminal so both DOM and INTL xfer is fine.
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Old Aug 10, 2010 | 8:08 am
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Originally Posted by oliver2002
INTL-INTL connect in DEL and BOM should be an OK experience. DOM-INTL in DEL or BOM is not for the faint hearted.

BLR is all one building/terminal so both DOM and INTL xfer is fine.
It would be international to domestic and then back on the way out.

Is BLR all right ? If others agree, I'll go for that thanks!
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Old Aug 11, 2010 | 3:31 am
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if you have enough time between connections then you will be fine in all 3 cities....
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Old Aug 11, 2010 | 4:43 am
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BLR is just fine and MAA is a small airport with both terminals about a few hundred yards from each other, so that's fine too. No fog / weather delays there like December in delhi.
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Old Aug 15, 2010 | 5:14 pm
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Originally Posted by oliver2002
INTL-INTL connect in DEL and BOM should be an OK experience. DOM-INTL in DEL or BOM is not for the faint hearted.

BLR is all one building/terminal so both DOM and INTL xfer is fine.
By December, DEL T3 would be fully operational. So, both, international to international and international to domestic would be OK in DEL.
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Old Aug 16, 2010 | 3:36 am
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For all domestic airlines? I thought it was IC/AI and 9W only at first?
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Old Aug 17, 2010 | 2:34 am
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Originally Posted by saad
if you have enough time between connections then you will be fine in all 3 cities....
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Originally Posted by hserus
BLR is just fine and MAA is a small airport with both terminals about a few hundred yards from each other, so that's fine too. No fog / weather delays there like December in delhi.
+1..

Btw.. wht are ur other transit options and which is ur final domestic destination in India ?
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Old Aug 17, 2010 | 6:33 am
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Originally Posted by abhilife2001
Btw.. wht are ur other transit options and which is ur final domestic destination in India ?
Alternative is connecting in Dubai and flying directly to HYD, which is my final destination
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Old Aug 17, 2010 | 10:12 am
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For all domestic airlines? I thought it was IC/AI and 9W only at first?
Yes, you are absolutely correct. I had overlooked the situation in which he would be transferring between international and LCC.
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Old Aug 17, 2010 | 12:53 pm
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Originally Posted by oliver2002
For all domestic airlines? I thought it was IC/AI and 9W only at first?
Isnt IT also in the 1st lot to move to terminal 3 ??
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Old Aug 24, 2010 | 5:16 am
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Alternative is connecting in Dubai and flying directly to HYD, which is my final destination
I would rather do the DXB - HYD direct.

The other one I would do is MAA or BLR (for the ease of the transfer).

Take DEL only if you are sure your flights will all arrive/leave at T3.

DO NOT take BOM!
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Old Aug 24, 2010 | 5:23 am
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Why DXB-HYD for gods sake? Sure EK has at least 2x daily to HYD but those flights are jammed with laborers etc so that you are guaranteed huge queues at immigration, and the customs people love those flights as well because people on that flight pack in stuff like large LCD TVs, gold etc ..

If you're in Italy why not just fly LH, BA etc that fly direct into HYD from Europe?
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Old Aug 24, 2010 | 6:12 am
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Originally Posted by hserus
If you're in Italy why not just fly LH, BA etc that fly direct into HYD from Europe?
Well, partly is because it's all flights on the wrong alliances ;-) and partly because those flights do not operate daily.

Most of them connect through India anyways.

The EK connection is the only one with 2 legs from Milan, and by taking a Skyteam flight to DXB I can accrue miles for it at the cost of adding 1 connect in Europe.

Oh, and it costs a good 50% less in eco
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Old Aug 25, 2010 | 3:16 am
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Originally Posted by raistlin
Oh, and it costs a good 50% less in eco
no other reason required....
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