While booking an international air-travel trip..

[KKF]

Re: While booking an international air-travel trip..

@TLK

After learning from my own mistakes, I realized that when it comes to booking an international travel or even domestic, a person has to take care of departure and arrival times of both legs, and time spend in between connections. I myself tried to save 200-300 bucks and traveled through Gulf Air to Pakistan during my student days. It took me 44 hours to reach Karachi, and then Gulf lost my luggage and I spent another 4 hours at KHI airport. That saving was definitely not worth it.

I suggest that unless you are going through some major financial crunch, book an international flight with least amount of travel time. Try to save money elsewhere if you have to, like in buying gifts for family back home or doing shopping from there.

those days are long gone, TLK.

the travel industry is much much much competitive and they try to dump you off at your destination as quickly as possible and, as a result, most destinations from anywhere in the world can be/is doable non-stop or with one stop at max.

the lower fare doesn’t always mean ‘bad’. the lower fares come from the airline’s ability to fill all available seats. the more full-capacity flights and airline gets, the cheaper the fare will get. these days, for instance, United Airlines is offering the lowest possible fares in the market for that sector. i can get a fare from Toronto to Delhi/Bombay/Kolkata for as little as $818 US.

some airlines to be avoided are those which have safety issues like Aeroflot.