Scouse Express

If you are thinking of booking a cheaper flight, back to the UK, on Air India......you may want to read this article;

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/26/bu...pagewanted=all

Jim.

HarryTheSpider

Simply, don't touch it with a barge pole.

Lion in Winter

What, you mean it's not normal to fly with newspaper taped over all the windows

Yorkieabroad

Flew them once on a domestic flight only because there was no choice. Dreadful. After that if i had to do a 2 city visit I used to plan it so I could do one on the way out, one on the way back (ie Sing-Bombay-London-New Delhi-Sing). Racked up the cost somewhat, but it was worth it!!!

I do like the sound of Kingfisher airlines though. Takes some balls to name an airline after a beer......can you imagine Watneys Red Barrel Airlines - no doubt go down a storm on the Benidorm run

cluedweasel

I drive like that all the time. The missus is always taking my sunglasses out of the car.

RICH

Is there a "not cheap" flight option on Air India?

Brit3964

We've had quite a few ATR Captain's from our company go to work for Jet Airways and Kingfisher in India and they found they have strange aviation law which more or less prohibits the co-pilot from having much hands-on experience. For example only the PIC can takeoff and land. Pretty dumb really but that's the way it is over there.

GeoffM

Which is exactly the kind of situation you want to avoid. The whole point of having two people in the cockpit is to have a peer-to-peer evaluation of what's going on, not a instructor-student kind of situation when both pilots are qualified and the student's too subservient to question the captain.