Budget international flights?

sebire

November 13, 2007, 09:15 PM posted in General Discussion

Hey guys, I don't suppose anybody knows of any budget airlines or travel agents that offer flights between Delhi and Beijing? Especially ones with webpages in English! Because the cheapest flight I could find was with Sri Lanken airlines, and that's going to cost over £200 one way! (And I saw a flight from London to Hong Kong for £125 today, so I'm thinking there must be cheap flights somewhere.)

wildyaks

November 14, 2007, 05:10 AM

Wow. I would be interested to know where you found that flight HK -London for £125. I am going that way soon...

bazza

November 14, 2007, 06:58 AM

Cheapest isn't always the best option, I might consider business class next time. ;)

henning

November 14, 2007, 08:09 AM

The comfort level of a flight to China is inversely proportional to the product of the number of kids you take with you and their activity level. The rest I can bear. :)

ladave

November 15, 2007, 04:14 AM

I've heard good things about EVA. They have a class of service that sounds like you get business class seats with coach class service at a reasonable price.

clay

November 15, 2007, 04:31 AM

Amber told me about Kayak.com booked a round trip ticket to the states from shanghai for a grandski. not too bad for the chirstmas season.

sebire

November 20, 2007, 08:55 PM

Wildyaks: This site does great special offers http://www.leestravel.com/ These offers are before tax, but £99 to NY before tax is not an offer to be sneezed at - my friend is going tomorrow to Washington for over £200. Unless, of course, they slap on £90 worth of tax. It's cos Mr Lee (he's dead now, he was a nice chap) is a Singapore Airlines agent, and I find him hard to beat when it comes to flying over to SE Asia/Australia. I was just thinking that seeing as budget flights were exploding over in SE Asia, I was hoping that there may be some between China and India.

TaiPan

November 21, 2007, 11:00 PM

Sebire, There's a Dear Amber episode on that EXACT topic... http://chinesepod.com/extra/accents-and-subway-survival/discussion

sebire

November 22, 2007, 06:29 PM

Taipan, the problem is that I'm based in the UK, when the flight I need is between India and China, so the best deals will probably be given to agents based in India or based in China. Perhaps Chinese agents over here will do it, I shall see if I can find one.

sebire

November 22, 2007, 11:30 PM

Well, turns out I've just paid £250 for a flight, so don't need to look after all.