[PREM FARE GONE] MH/JL: One-Way DEL-KUL-NRT-JFK/ORD/BOS in Business $1,382
Apr 16, 2019, 7:03 pm
#107
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Does anyone know if a US citizen can enter DEL with separate ticket and leave on this route (DEL-KUL-NRT-BOS) without a visa / is check-in possible within the transit zone of DEL?
Seems the deal is still valid (around $1450) and thinking of doing it if I can get it done without a visa. Thanks!
Seems the deal is still valid (around $1450) and thinking of doing it if I can get it done without a visa. Thanks!
Apr 16, 2019, 11:00 pm
#108
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Does anyone know if a US citizen can enter DEL with separate ticket and leave on this route (DEL-KUL-NRT-BOS) without a visa / is check-in possible within the transit zone of DEL?
Seems the deal is still valid (around $1450) and thinking of doing it if I can get it done without a visa. Thanks!
Seems the deal is still valid (around $1450) and thinking of doing it if I can get it done without a visa. Thanks!
Although having an EU passport, I have done that procedure a couple of times, having to wait in a non-entertaining transit area fortransit desks to open, or for BPs to be issued.
From a recent experience transiting to MH from UL in CGK on2 reservations, I would say the key to success is to do OLCI + PYOB before departing for DEL. MH accepts OLCI 48h pre-departure.
Don't underestimate the power of a printed BP at airports where most transits are Int <->Dom. Try a mobile BP, but have a a printed "ace" ready, to open doors.
Apr 17, 2019, 7:14 am
#109
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Philadelphia, PA
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Does anyone know if a US citizen can enter DEL with separate ticket and leave on this route (DEL-KUL-NRT-BOS) without a visa / is check-in possible within the transit zone of DEL?
Seems the deal is still valid (around $1450) and thinking of doing it if I can get it done without a visa. Thanks!
Seems the deal is still valid (around $1450) and thinking of doing it if I can get it done without a visa. Thanks!
As other posters stated, there is a very dim, 'transit,' area in DEL. When I went, they had to call to MH to confirm my boarding passes. At that point, they signed my boarding pass and we were allowed through security. I imagine if we didn't have a boarding pass, it would still have been fine, albeit more cumbersome as we probably would have had to wait for someone to give us those.
Apr 17, 2019, 7:15 am
#110
Join Date: May 2011
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I would say the key to success is to do OLCI + PYOB before departing for DEL. MH accepts OLCI 48h pre-departure.
Don't underestimate the power of a printed BP at airports where most transits are Int <->Dom. Try a mobile BP, but have a a printed "ace" ready, to open doors.
Don't underestimate the power of a printed BP at airports where most transits are Int <->Dom. Try a mobile BP, but have a a printed "ace" ready, to open doors.
May 4, 2019, 2:52 am
#111
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Is the reverse direction, i.e. starting in JFK no longer possible?
After finalizing a reservation the other ('original') way, I found out that doing the reverse direction a couple of months later, the positioning from, and back to JFK, would be easier, with a return ticket. I did, however, only find available tix for short of $5.5K. Tried both BOS and JFK between late Apr 19 until Feb 20, only to find this discouraging price. There is still wide availability starting in DEL, for the original deal price, though.
Just to report on an issue discussed above. I had help fro Propeller Travel with my reservation for two things I couldn't fix myself. 1. A stayover in TYO and 2. JL coded TPAC. Issue #1 was easy fixed, but all possible ways to solve #2 resulted in "non-combinable" tickets. The reason could be, as stated above, that to arrange this one can't have a stopover in KUL. As I have friends in KUL, it was no deal to just stay overnight, so I will manage with a slightly lesser EQM that the MH code generates compared to JL, on the TPAC (crediting to AA).
Maybe trying the same routing again early next year, just having a layover in KUL, if that enables JL code?
Safe travels, all!
After finalizing a reservation the other ('original') way, I found out that doing the reverse direction a couple of months later, the positioning from, and back to JFK, would be easier, with a return ticket. I did, however, only find available tix for short of $5.5K. Tried both BOS and JFK between late Apr 19 until Feb 20, only to find this discouraging price. There is still wide availability starting in DEL, for the original deal price, though.
Just to report on an issue discussed above. I had help fro Propeller Travel with my reservation for two things I couldn't fix myself. 1. A stayover in TYO and 2. JL coded TPAC. Issue #1 was easy fixed, but all possible ways to solve #2 resulted in "non-combinable" tickets. The reason could be, as stated above, that to arrange this one can't have a stopover in KUL. As I have friends in KUL, it was no deal to just stay overnight, so I will manage with a slightly lesser EQM that the MH code generates compared to JL, on the TPAC (crediting to AA).
Maybe trying the same routing again early next year, just having a layover in KUL, if that enables JL code?
Safe travels, all!
Last edited by onobond; May 4, 2019 at 2:59 am Reason: insert lost words
May 4, 2019, 2:52 pm
#112
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May 5, 2019, 2:30 am
#113
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Yes, I must have mixed things up when doing a search for the r/t, starting from DEL. Spent a lot of time tweaking times/days for the return legs from JFK onwards. In the end decided on the o/w. Thanks for putting things right.
May 11, 2019, 12:25 pm
#114
Join Date: May 2006
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I just booked the round trip version with a stopover in Japan on the outbound and in Kuala Lumpur on the return. The stop-over in Japan is arriving Friday at 6:05pm and departing Monday at 10:45am, so about 64 hours. Rather than struggle to book it myself, I paid a $44 fee to Propeller Travel, and they booked it without any trouble. Perhaps for this ticket Propeller is the key.
May 12, 2019, 3:08 am
#115
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I just booked the round trip version with a stopover in Japan on the outbound and in Kuala Lumpur on the return. The stop-over in Japan is arriving Friday at 6:05pm and departing Monday at 10:45am, so about 64 hours. Rather than struggle to book it myself, I paid a $44 fee to Propeller Travel, and they booked it without any trouble. Perhaps for this ticket Propeller is the key.
May 12, 2019, 3:28 am
#116
Join Date: Mar 2018
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Hello everyone
someone already asked this question above but it got lost somewhere along the lines and i have the same question
I wanna do this trip crediting the miles to BA
1) what's the best route I can squeeze out the most tiers points? Is there anywhere else I could stop/transfer?
2) is it very easy to credit the MH miles (since it books into Z I think)?
3) and how to book it?
someone already asked this question above but it got lost somewhere along the lines and i have the same question
I wanna do this trip crediting the miles to BA
1) what's the best route I can squeeze out the most tiers points? Is there anywhere else I could stop/transfer?
2) is it very easy to credit the MH miles (since it books into Z I think)?
3) and how to book it?
May 13, 2019, 2:43 am
#117
Join Date: May 2006
Posts: 128
Unfortunately I did not try, and what I got is all MH. My main goal was tier points, but I can certainly find a use for extra Avios. I really want to get to 3500 TPS to renew GGL and get the GUFs.
May 13, 2019, 1:17 pm
#119
Join Date: May 2006
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