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Crazy Low Fares Between India And The UK

TheDiplomat From Ireland, joined Jun 2006, 382 posts, RR: 7
Posted (6 years 6 months 2 weeks 1 day 18 hours ago) and read 3655 times:

Departure tomorrow:

One way economy ticket

Direct: £300 (Jet airways)

One Stop: £159 (Etihad)

One way Business class

One Stop: £532 (Gulf), £535 (Qatar)

One way first class

One Stop: £762 (Etihad)

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Nimish From India, joined Feb 2005, 3078 posts, RR: 9
Reply 1, posted (6 years 6 months 2 weeks 1 day 18 hours ago) and read 3633 times:

Does this show the desperation of the Gulf carriers? What price are the non-stop carriers offering at - I'm assuming those will all be at the 300 level or higher one way (given you've only listed 9W amongst the non-stop options)?

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TheDiplomat From Ireland, joined Jun 2006, 382 posts, RR: 7
Reply 2, posted (6 years 6 months 2 weeks 1 day 18 hours ago) and read 3618 times:

All fares ex Mumbai.

Its shows the new capacity to and from India to the gulf, and how the gulf players, who mugged India for decades with high fares are now struggling. I cant believe that a last minute fare is so low...

Virgin premium economy is £400 one way!

AI is about £380 one way in Y.

BA (no surprise) is chocca full all weekend.

Nimish From India, joined Feb 2005, 3078 posts, RR: 9
Reply 3, posted (6 years 6 months 2 weeks 1 day 10 hours ago) and read 3390 times:

Quoting TheDiplomat (Reply 2):

Its shows the new capacity to and from India to the gulf, and how the gulf players, who mugged India for decades with high fares are now struggling. I cant believe that a last minute fare is so low...

I wonder what the Gulf carriers will do when there's more service on the Kangaroo route - since that's their other traditional route? And there's bound to be more/better service sooner than later.

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Jaysit From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 4, posted (6 years 6 months 2 weeks 1 day 10 hours ago) and read 3390 times:

Quoting TheDiplomat (Reply 2):
Its shows the new capacity to and from India to the gulf, and how the gulf players, who mugged India for decades with high fares are now struggling. I

And whose fault was that other than the asinine Indian government?

Jammin From India, joined Nov 2006, 133 posts, RR: 0
Reply 5, posted (6 years 6 months 2 weeks 1 day 10 hours ago) and read 3356 times:

Nice. Maybe this will also happen on the India-US sector, which is seeing quite an increase in capacity... bigthumbsup

If it's only ex-BOM, who's making that last-minute shopping trip to London?? cool

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Nimish From India, joined Feb 2005, 3078 posts, RR: 9
Reply 6, posted (6 years 6 months 2 weeks 1 day 9 hours ago) and read 3314 times:

Quoting Jammin (Reply 5):
If it's only ex-BOM, who's making that last-minute shopping trip to London?? cool

Only a moron (or a prince Big grin

) would make a shopping trip to London - that city is just so bloody expensive!

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Comorin From United States of America, joined May 2005, 4671 posts, RR: 17
Reply 7, posted (6 years 6 months 2 weeks 1 day 1 hour ago) and read 3131 times:

Quoting Nimish (Reply 6):
Only a moron (or a prince Big grin) would make a shopping trip to London - that city is just so bloody expensive!

LHRspotter From United Kingdom, joined Nov 2006, 182 posts, RR: 0
Reply 8, posted (6 years 6 months 2 weeks 16 hours ago) and read 2989 times:

Quoting Nimish (Reply 6):
Only a moron (or a prince ) would make a shopping trip to London - that city is just so bloody expensive!

I assume that to make a statement like this you've ever been shopping in London at the right time?

It all depends on where you live, what you earn and what you like to spend your money on.

London is a lot cheaper than Tokyo, Dubai, Paris etc and on a par with NY and Berlin. And unlike other places in the world there is actually something to buy here.

B747-437B From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 9, posted (6 years 6 months 2 weeks 16 hours ago) and read 2985 times:

I have regularly seen (and often purchased) one-way tickets BOM-LON on day of travel for ~Rs.12000+tax on airlines as varied as QR/VS/BD/AI/EY/GF/AZ.

Nimish From India, joined Feb 2005, 3078 posts, RR: 9
Reply 10, posted (6 years 6 months 2 weeks 15 hours ago) and read 2944 times:

Quoting LHRspotter (Reply 8):
I assume that to make a statement like this you've ever been shopping in London at the right time?

No offense intended on my original post. That being said, I have spent a lot of time in the UK, and found it very expensive for everything - whether electronics (cheaper in the US), clothes (cheaper in India), groceries (cheaper anywhere else in the world) etc. I'm of course talking only about the absolute costs, not the costs relative to income or standardized for PPP.

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David_itl From United Kingdom, joined Jun 2001, 7145 posts, RR: 14
Reply 11, posted (6 years 6 months 2 weeks 13 hours ago) and read 2870 times:

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Quoting B747-437B (Reply 9):
I have regularly seen (and often purchased) one-way tickets BOM-LON on day of travel for ~Rs.12000+tax

Quoting Nimish (Reply 3):
I wonder what the Gulf carriers will do when there's more service on the Kangaroo route

What are the fare likes ex-MAN, BHX and GLA for India compared to those out of LHR?

Jammin From India, joined Nov 2006, 133 posts, RR: 0
Reply 12, posted (6 years 6 months 2 weeks 9 hours ago) and read 2767 times:

Quoting Nimish (Reply 6):
Only a moron (or a prince Big grin) would make a shopping trip to London - that city is just so bloody expensive!

Funny

Quoting LHRspotter (Reply 8):
London is a lot cheaper than Tokyo

I believe all of these are just preceived notions, cause when the few times I've been in Tokyo, it's really not that expensive compared to the states. Food, taxis, drinks, etc... not bad. Everyone hyped it up... but I guess it all depends on your spending habits and what not...

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Fbgdavidson From United Kingdom, joined Oct 2004, 3687 posts, RR: 31
Reply 13, posted (6 years 6 months 2 weeks 9 hours ago) and read 2745 times:

Quoting Nimish (Reply 6):

Only a moron (or a prince ) would make a shopping trip to London - that city is just so bloody expensive!

That's bloody brilliant! rotfl

Those fares look pretty decent too. EY F for £762 one way sounds superb thumbsup

, I suspect the one way fare coming back isn't so competitive...

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A480 From France, joined Nov 2006, 17 posts, RR: 0
Reply 14, posted (6 years 6 months 1 week 6 days 16 hours ago) and read 2595 times:

Quoting LHRspotter (Reply 8):
I assume that to make a statement like this you've ever been shopping in London at the right time?

It all depends on where you live, what you earn and what you like to spend your money on.

London is a lot cheaper than Tokyo, Dubai, Paris etc and on a par with NY and Berlin. And unlike other places in the world there is actually something to buy here.

Brother, no offense but London is the priciest place in the world right now, it is more expensive than even Tokyo and way more than Paris.

FCAFLYBOY From United Kingdom, joined Nov 2006, 472 posts, RR: 0
Reply 15, posted (6 years 6 months 1 week 6 days 15 hours ago) and read 2570 times:

Quoting LHRspotter (Reply 8):
London is a lot cheaper than Tokyo, Dubai, Paris etc and on a par with NY and Berlin. And unlike other places in the world there is actually something to buy here.

And something to actually see, and we have HISTORY, not to forget the Queen, she's cool
cheeky

FCAFLYBOY From United Kingdom, joined Nov 2006, 472 posts, RR: 0
Reply 16, posted (6 years 6 months 1 week 6 days 15 hours ago) and read 2559 times:

Actually, slightly off topic, it's Moscow!!

http://www.finfacts.ie/costofliving.htm

Planesarecool From United Kingdom, joined Nov 2001, 4089 posts, RR: 13
Reply 17, posted (6 years 6 months 1 week 6 days 15 hours ago) and read 2548 times:

While the premium fares are cheap, the economy fares are not exactly mind boggling. Provided i take a return journey, i can get on a BA flight from LHR-JFK tomorrow for £134. Of course, once you check First, you're looking at £3335 one way.

Gr8Circle From Canada, joined Dec 2005, 2987 posts, RR: 4
Reply 18, posted (6 years 6 months 1 week 6 days 9 hours ago) and read 2394 times:

Quoting Nimish (Reply 6):
Only a moron (or a prince ) would make a shopping trip to London - that city is just so bloody expensive!

Plenty of both categories live in modern day India..... Big grin

The average Indian still has that England and Switzerland obsession when they think of travelling "overseas"....but that's changing fast....

AKLDELNonstop From New Zealand, joined Apr 2006, 305 posts, RR: 0
Reply 19, posted (6 years 6 months 1 week 5 days 16 hours ago) and read 2200 times:

Quoting Fbgdavidson (Reply 13):
Quoting Nimish (Reply 6):

Only a moron (or a prince biggrin ) would make a shopping trip to London - that city is just so bloody expensive!

Nimish is it THAT prince u r referring to? Big grin

Jammin From India, joined Nov 2006, 133 posts, RR: 0
Reply 20, posted (6 years 6 months 1 week 5 days 7 hours ago) and read 2040 times:

Quoting Gr8Circle (Reply 18):
The average Indian still has that England and Switzerland obsession when they think of travelling "overseas"...

How true... it's those damn Bollywood movies that are to blame spin

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Mk777 From United States of America, joined Oct 2006, 1186 posts, RR: 0
Reply 21, posted (6 years 6 months 1 week 5 days 6 hours ago) and read 2030 times:

Wish there were crazy low fares from IAD to DEL as well. But i guess it will be a while before prices fall on the US-India sector.

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