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I am trying to book a ticket to join my husband in Bangalore and not sure which airline to choose. As I am leaving from MSP, pretty much EVERYTHING has at least two connections. So, should I do United, American, BA, Northwest or Jet. I most likely will be flying coach (!!!!!) although I will attempt to use points/miles to upgrade my guess is I will not be lucky.

Thanks.
taitai

You can fly American Airlines non-stop from Chicago to New Delhi. Spend the night in Delhi and then fly an Indian carrier (Jet, Kingfisher, Indian) to Bangalore the next day.

American Airlines service on this flight is pretty bad in economy. Read the comments on
www.airlinequality.com/Forum/am_aa.htm

Unless you can upgrade, I would find another airline.

I have only flown Continental non-stop from Newark to Delhi. I fly Coach and it's my repeat airline to India.

I don't have any personal experience on AA to India, but wouldn't rule it out. I find airlinequality to have a lot of complaints and if you read it too long you wouldn't fly anything.

So, taitai, maybe re-phrase your thread to show you are coming from US to India (ie: "Minneapolis to Bangalore with the fewest stops - please help" )and re-post it under Asia. There are a lot of experienced India travellers in the Asia Forum.

Thanks for the thoughts. I will repost on the Asia forum and see what people think.
taitai

You don't need two connections.

As for most intercontinental connections, just fly straight to Heathrow. BA's regular flights from there to Bangalore are supplemented from next week by Kingfisher's new service.

I wouldn't listen to <b>Wally</b>, if I were you. I would also not read that shite site that he linked as it's pretty much biased towards European airlines.

If the AA flight to Delhi works for you, do it. It's no better or worse than just about any other option.

I've never taken the flight, but someone gave it a One Star, and seeing that when a flight is on time and doesn't crash, that is a very low evaluation.

So, she really isn't listening to me, she is listening to a reviewer who has taken the flight before and was very disapointed.

BTW, one meal and one snack on a 16-hour flight with AA.