Seeking reviews for Air India (AI). I am planning my honeymoon (in June/July) from NY to London to Italy to Paris and back to NY.
AI's one way airfare to London is consistently lower and flight time is shorter. I have seen several negative reviews of AI on the web, but they were a bit dated.
Anyone have recent experience with Air India?
Do you recommend?
Thanks All.
Yes - I have a lot of experience of Air India.
I have to fly from Mumbai ( Bombay ) to Heathrow four times a year. Air India has by far the worst record of cancellations of flights. It's a regular event for the Virgin and British Airways desks at Mumbai to be swamped with Air India reps trying to offload passengers from their cancelled flights onto other carriers.
Air India was once the flagship carrier of India, it has now lost it's domestic market to Kingfisher and Spice Air and has lost most of it's longhaul routes to Jetairways.
From my airline availability display I can see that it strongly looks like this is not a scheduled service but a charter service. Remember that IF that is the case the rules of travel are very different on a charter. If the flight gets cancelled you will, of course, get your money back. What you won't get is a honeymoon. Other airlines will not accept a ticket from a charter onto a scheduled flight unless the company went bankrupt.
Emirates, one of the world's best airlines connect JFK with Hamburg, Germany's most romantic and elegant city every day for very little money. Singapore Airlines, also a top rated carrier both on service and security have a daily to Frankfurt, also very cheap. Frankfurt could make for a good base for your trips to London, Paris (3 hrs something from Frankfurt by bullet train) and of course Italy.
