Transit Visa travelling on Air India

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PHSESAaug

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I am going to India by Air India through Paris. I have a AP but no valid USA visa stamp. The previous time I travelled ( 2 years back) I did not need transit visa as we stayed in the plane during the stopover at paris.

Has there been any changes to this policy. I want to know if I need to get the french transit visa. Any recent travellers?
 
PHSESAaug said:
I am going to India by Air India through Paris. I have a AP but no valid USA visa stamp. The previous time I travelled ( 2 years back) I did not need transit visa as we stayed in the plane during the stopover at paris.

Has there been any changes to this policy. I want to know if I need to get the french transit visa. Any recent travellers?
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No need of Transit Visa.

You are either insane or plain stupid to travel Air India. Air India guys are the most pathetic human beings on the face of the earth.

I just came back about 48 hours late than original schedule, both me and my spouse took 2 days of loss of pay because of them.
 
GreenCardVirus said:
No need of Transit Visa.

You are either insane or plain stupid to travel Air India. Air India guys are the most pathetic human beings on the face of the earth.

I just came back about 48 hours late than original schedule, both me and my spouse took 2 days of loss of pay because of them.
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My flight got delayed by 18 hrs. The actual reason was some other flight which was scheduled from Delhi had some technical issues so they sent our flight to Delhi and they lied to us that there is a technical problem in the flight. They took more than 4 hrs to issue the boarding passes in Bombay (we were coming from Hyd) though there is enough staff and absolutely no line. Later we found out that it was because the hotel check-in time starts after 10 AM (not sure if it is true but some body was saying). And they didn't book enough rooms in the hotel, it was a mess at check in time and hotel staff treated Air-India passengers like second class citizens. We had to wait another 1 hr in the hotel launge to get the room.

Definitely it is not a wise thing to travel by Air India. And the ticket price is not cheap compared to other air lines who provide excellent service.

I wouldn't recommend Air India to anybody.
 
pacha_card said:
Definitely it is not a wise thing to travel by Air India. And the ticket price is not cheap compared to other air lines who provide excellent service.

I wouldn't recommend Air India to anybody.
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I did so even though my friends advised me against it.

US-INDIA journey was ok. The LA-Bombay flight I took was only like 25% full.

For India-USA, I went to AI office 72 hours before to confirm. Then they tell me that AI cancelled Bombay-LA flights till Oct 22nd even though they issued tickets. One of AI guys told be that they did so because flights were going only 25% full.

I can write a full story about how bad these people. I had problems at every single step. Some points:

1. Spent 2 half days at AI office. (got lucky on day one because some gave me a token that saved me atleast 4 hours)

2. AI changed my schedule twice, last one right before the day I was supposed to leave. Changes were done only upon my visit to AI office, they never called about flight cancellations. As per first change, I was supposed to go to Delhi a day earlier, stay in a hotel, then catch a flight to LA next morning. They never confirmed the Air Sahara flight that was supposed to take me to Delhi.

3. Checking in took 1 full hour, because AI office was supposed to print tickes which they did not and the people at airport had to manually write tickets for our family (3).

4. No boarding pass till LA, only till Frankfurt. At frankfurt they take 30 min to issue boarding pass to LA.

5. Connecting flight from LA was not not confirmed and lost that flight. I had to drive to my destination which was 8 hours away.

6. The forced me to check in cabin baggage even though I was carrying expensive items like camcorder/mp3 player/camera and baby stuff like diapers/clothes/milk.

7. They lost our baby stroller.

In all I counted direct and indirect loss of atleast 1500$ because of Air India.
 
Direct Flights

My Friends why dont you take the Direct non stop Flight to India and avoide all this.
This way you will not have to take all this.
The treatment you get from USA to India will be good but when it is the Other way every thing is other way for most of the airlines.
 
Direct Non-Stop Flights

I agree with 'JustGC007'..

Starting November 1st, 2006 Delta is starting a DIRECT NON-STOP Flight from New York (JFK) to Bombay (BOM). No need to go through this hassle of Transit visa. Also, American Airline and Continental Airlines have a DIRECT NON-STOP Flight from Chicago to Delhi.



Thanks,
MG
 
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