Air India JFK-LHR

[winetraveller]

I was wondering if anybody had flown trans-Atlantic with Air India. They have some rather good fares for J and F, and as they will join *A next year I was considering giving them a go.

I saw some shots of their F product, and it looks pretty good, and at $3500 return is very well priced.

 

[SeatBackForward]

Avoid Air India like the plague. No matter how affordable it seems. Up until a few years ago they were the only option to fly into India, so i've had several experiences with them, heres a random list of things:

1) Being denied a boarding pass during check in because the people in arguing over excessive bags by which time the plane filled up.
2) Seeing other people deined boarding pass on same flight offering bribes to check in staff (and it must've worked because they weren't waiting afterwards)
3) Flights being cancelled, having my ticket returned to me and told "go find another airline in the terminal that might honour the ticket"
4) In the futile belief that business class gets treated better - waiting 30mins at an unattended business class check-in desk
5) Only one FA serving entire business class section of flight
6) Visitors being taken into coughpit - in 2007!
7) No adherence to flight safety - man walking out of the toilets as flight *bump* landed.

I understand that if you're Sachin Tendulkar they treat you well, although I've heard he avoids them too.

 

[markis10]

Jet airways to JFK is one of the Forbes Traveler Secret routes!

Affordable Ways to Fly Business Class - ForbesTraveler.com

They stop at Brussels though!

 

[QF WP]

Have read enough bad Trip Reports on Flyertalk to never want to sit in one of their aeroplanes (whether it be due to terminal chaos as outlined above, mechanical delays, poor onboard service etc).

Why do you think they are offering the seats at such good prices - perhaps they can't sell them?

I'd stick with a quality product - there are many carriers plying the route so I would presume some fare discounting goes on.

 

[bravoecho1]

To manipulate the phrase "lie with dogs - gets flea's", in Air India's case it is "fly with Air India - get flea's" and i'm talking about F class too.

And that's not even commenting on their so called "maintenance"!!

Stay away.

 

[straitman]

I was wondering if anybody had flown trans-Atlantic with Air India. They have some rather good fares for J and F, and as they will join *A next year I was considering giving them a go.

I saw some shots of their F product, and it looks pretty good, and at $3500 return is very well priced.

winetraveller,

Looks like a pretty universal Don't do it! from what I can see.

 

[winetraveller]

winetraveller,

Looks like a pretty universal Don't do it! from what I can see.

Yes, I don't know if I've ever seen such an overwhelmingly universal response to a question on this forum.

Oh well plenty of other fish in the sky!

Has anybody ever used Trip experts to book flights? http://www.tripxperts.com/Default.asp, they have some excellent J airfares from the US to Europe, less that $3000 return with LH to Europe, which makes me a little suspicious.

 

[browski]

I flew Abu Dhabi to Mumbai on Air India last month - in economy. New 737-800, great service (lovely FA's), on-time departure. AUD $175.

I'd fly them again, but I generally prefer Jet Airways due to the Qantas hook-up.