Tips for Air Travel In India

March 1, 2017 / by Rachel Stuckey / in India, Travel / No comments

5 Things You Need to Know

Indian train travel is a must do for any serious traveller, but even with the new online train booking options, it is still much easier to book flights than it is to book train passage. And the cost, availability, and timing make flights a reasonable alternative for getting around the sub-continent. While air travel is air travel almost everywhere you go (except, perhaps, in Pakistan!), there are a few peculiarities in India. Here are a few things new visitors to India should know before they head to the airport.

Zero Visibility

January 8, 2013 / by Rachel Stuckey / in Asia, India, Travel / No comments

Clearing the Fog at
Bagdogra AND Delhi Airports

When the Jet Airways flight to Bagdogra was cancelled, and my own Air India flight was delayed, I didn’t have high hopes that I’d be enjoying dinner in the charming colonial dining room of the Windamere Hotel in Darjeeling. No big deal, I’m not in a rush, I can adapt.

Of course, what I didn’t anticipate (which, thinking back, I really should have) was what a disaster a flight cancellation might be for the uninitiated and linguistically impaired in an Indian airport.

Toto, We’re Not in Shoreditch Anymore

August 17, 2012 / by Rachel Stuckey / in Asia, Southeast Asia, Thailand / No comments

I left London on a quiet Tuesday morning, the day after the busiest day ever at Heathrow (with the entire Olympic family leaving the city). My driver said he had gladly had the day off!

Olympics Medal for Heathrow

July 31, 2012 / by Rachel Stuckey / in Travel, Travel + Escape, UK / No comments

Have you ever arrived home on a late-night or early-morning flight, breezed through a deserted customs area, and awaited your bags in an cavernous baggage claims hall? Has it ever happened to you at London’s Heathrow Airport?

I’ve been through London’s Heathrow Airport several times. It’s always an experience. My first time was shortly before 9/11. I was rather taken aback when my passport was checked no less than five times before I boarded my flight home. Little did I know that just a few months later, Heathrow’s approach would become the new normal.