On 4/1/07, Deepa Mohan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Apart from these travel sites ,one could also check out individual
airline websites; for example, Travelguru doesn't give Spicejet or
Paramount listings at all, whenever I have tried it.
I have travelled several times by Spicejet and my
On Thursday 05 Apr 2007 6:41 am, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
I paid so many thousand
rupees for the flight, let me get value for money by getting as many free
drinks as I can
Isn't this a perfectly sane thought process? One does not have to pay
thousands and behave needlessly prim and
As the fight
attendants get tireder and tireder during the flight and the
toilets get
cloggeder and cloggeder, you the freebie drinker is the best behaved
passenger - knocked out and in a coma.
Oh course this is *after* his in the aisle football game has gotten
his fool neck broken when he
On 05/04/07, Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yeah but you dont get pissed drunk and pass out on a flight, right?
I do get badly drunk, but fortunately haven't passed out ever in a
flight - or elsewhere, for several years now.
Binand
PS: Passed out = I don't wake up by the
cloggeder and cloggeder, you the freebie drinker is the best behaved
passenger - knocked out and in a coma.
I'd prefer to spend long flights knocked out, but guess that the savings
accrued by being able to rack and stack pax would be offset by the
substantial cost differential between (free
Bonobashi wrote:
For journeys of less than 300/400 kms, for me personally, trains are preferable,
This is something I have believed in for a looong time (and been
reviled for being cheap. I don't need to buy carbon credits for
burning aviation fuel, and very often, if I calculate the
On 06-Apr-07, at 12:21 PM, Deepa Mohan wrote:
This is something I have believed in for a looong time (and been
reviled for being cheap. I don't need to buy carbon credits for
burning aviation fuel
It may be worth doing the stats on exactly how much damage you're
causing to the environment.
Am Freitag, 6. April 2007 09:04 schrieb Kiran Jonnalagadda:
On 06-Apr-07, at 12:21 PM, Deepa Mohan wrote:
This is something I have believed in for a looong time (and been
reviled for being cheap. I don't need to buy carbon credits for
burning aviation fuel
It may be worth doing the stats
I take the train, not the carer...MOST times, Kiran. We take the
car when there are enough passengers (five). So yes, I do damage the
environment more than I would if I took an eco-friendly bullock
cartbut definitely less than taking a flight. Of course I do not
presume to talk about
If the [Boeing 737-400] plane is 75% full, one passenger is carried
22.2 km for each liter of fuel burned (52.2 miles for each US gallon of
fuel burned). This fuel efficiency exceeds that of almost all cars, when
the driver is travelling alone.
The relevant figure, at least as far as the
Binand Sethumadhavan wrote:
Hardly a characteristic of that demographic. Just about everyone
(including myself) does all that - in fact, in some airlines the cabin
crew positively encourages you to dip freely into the freebies.
Yeah but you dont get pissed drunk and pass out on a flight,
Jet is definitely not budget. I have to travel a lot and find any other is
preferable, price-wise, even good ole Aunty Indian. But if you aren't
specifically looking for a price-break, Kingfisher and Paramount are both nice,
the difference being that you aren't overwhelmed by the colour in
Binand Sethumadhavan wrote:
On 05/04/07, Madhu Menon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Danese Cooper wrote:
I had the scariest ride ever on an airplane on one of these two (and I
forget which because their names are too similar, IMHO).
Must be Air India. Alcohol is not served on domestic flights.
I
On 4/4/07, Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Air India (AI, and Indian Airlines is IC not IA .. both getting merged
and renamed to Air Indian)
Strangely, Air Indian reminds me of The Flying Sikh[1] and Indian
fart jokes [2], both of which do not fit what they want to convey with
I had the scariest ride ever on an airplane on one of these two (and
I forget which because their names are too similar, IMHO).
The flight attendants totally lost control of the passengers on this
flight. There was lots of drinking and by the end in the back of the
plane there were
Danese Cooper wrote:
I had the scariest ride ever on an airplane on one of these two (and I
forget which because their names are too similar, IMHO).
Must be Air India. Alcohol is not served on domestic flights.
--
*
Madhu Menon
Shiok Far-eastern Cuisine
Indiranagar, Bangalore
Visit
On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 00:16 +0530, Madhu Menon wrote:
Must be Air India. Alcohol is not served on domestic flights.
so? i remember a northwest flight to delhi from amsterdam a couple of
years ago that was delayed because some people wanted a whisky, and got
annoyed when told that alcohol was
jet has way better service than most european and american airlines, but
are certainly not a budget airline (even though prices for tickets
bought in rupees in india can be considerably less than the US$ prices
for jet tickets bought from abroad). btw you don't need to sign up for
jet's frequent
Kingfisher++
Service was immaculate, food was awesome. The flying was a little
heavy handed, probably because pilots are straight out of the
air force. :)
cheers,
vipul
On Sun, Apr 01, 2007 at 09:00:00PM +0400, Ramakrishnan Sundaram wrote:
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On 03/04/07, Vipul Ved Prakash [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Kingfisher++
When things are going well, all the airlines are fine - one gets what
one paid for. In my opinion, what defines the quality of service of an
airline is how they deal with the times when things go wrong - fog in
DEL causing
Binand Sethumadhavan wrote:
Incidentally, for metro-metro, it seems Air India Air India Express
have some irresistible fare offers. Their website is horrible, though.
Air India (AI, and Indian Airlines is IC not IA .. both getting merged
and renamed to Air Indian) flights between metros are at
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Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2007 12:38 PM
To: silklist@lists.hserus.net
Subject: [silk] indian budget airlines
Any suggestions on which budget airlines in india to avoid /
go for.?
Have been warned about the one called Air Deccan by many people...
On 4/1/07, Abhijit Menon-Sen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 2007-04-02 06:09:22 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I still get mail from makemytrip for one booking I made 6 months ago.
Oh great.
[snip]
-- ams, who will avoid makemytrip.com in future.
They sold my email address. I still get spam
Aditya Chadha [02/04/07 16:22 -0400]:
They sold my email address. I still get spam from the russians! I
guess they're making more money selling email addresses than air
tickets...
If you're getting RUSSIAN spam .. its typically from bots. So they've
either been hacked or the PC where their
Hmm... Jet is sort of pricey i am looking for fairly reliable
cheaper alternatives...
(cheap as in not crash land cheap)
On 4/1/07, Danese Cooper wrote:
I swear by Jet. I even have frequent flyer miles with them (although
I live in San Francisco). IMHO, they are the only domestic
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Danese Cooper said the following on 01/04/2007 20:50:
I swear by Jet. I even have frequent flyer miles with them (although I
live in San Francisco). IMHO, they are the only domestic Indian carrier
that has their act together. I have flown
On 4/1/07, Binand Sethumadhavan wrote:
For fare comparisons, you should look at makemytrip.com or yatra.com.
Did not know about this site ... thanks.
ashok
Did not know about this site ... thanks.
yatra.com
makemytrip.com
cleartrip.com
travelguru.com
Hopefully you can see them all in the google ads ;-)
-Tarun
Apart from these travel sites ,one could also check out individual
airline websites; for example, Travelguru doesn't give Spicejet or
Paramount listings at all, whenever I have tried it.
I have travelled several times by Spicejet and my experience has been
good so far, a fair amount cheaper
On 2 Apr 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If I am price conscious about a trip I usually choose the cheapest
on cleartrip.com - they don't seem to have an extra fee for booking.
I like the general layout of cleartrip.com. The price you see when you
make the selection of flights is the amount
At 2007-04-02 06:09:22 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I still get mail from makemytrip for one booking I made 6 months ago.
Oh great.
They haven't yet finished processing one booking for me, and I already
hate them. Their web site is dismal. Their feedback form doesn't work.
Their people are
On 4/2/07, Abhijit Menon-Sen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
-- ams, who will avoid makemytrip.com in future.
My wife, who is a travel agent, has a ready supply of online booking
horror stories. Everything from broken websites that bill you but
don't actually book a ticket, issued tickets that the
Binand Sethumadhavan [01/04/07 19:42 +0200]:
For fare comparisons, you should look at makemytrip.com or yatra.com.
cleartrip.com is far better - and has a nice, clean and uncluttered
interface
Biju Chacko [02/04/07 09:09 +0530]:
Her advice: use online booking sites to help you negotiate with your
travel agent, but don't actually book tickets through them.
for domestic, that doesnt hold good
for international - agreed 100%.. besides a good TA can do stuff like book
you into specific
On 02/04/07, Biju Chacko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Her advice: use online booking sites to help you negotiate with your
travel agent, but don't actually book tickets through them.
Exactly. Use the travel sites for fare comparisons, schedules and
possible connections, nothing more. Here in
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ashok _ wrote:
Any suggestions on which budget airlines in india to avoid / go for.?
Have been warned about the one called Air Deccan by many people...
Air Deccan seems to be taking a large bundle of flak these days it was
good earlier.
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Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote:
They haven't yet finished processing one booking for me, and I already
hate them. Their web site is dismal. Their feedback form doesn't work.
Their people are as broken as their web site.
Yeah, that site needs some love
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