Location: God's own country
Posted on: 14-03-07 16:57:17
I agree with Cdn-Dude.
In my experience (and i have also travelled to quite a few places across the globe), the travel agent always needs a copy of my visa to be sent to the Airlines before the Airlines releases the ticket.
A more familier experience to CD's was when i arrived in Canada from Chennai. The TA needed a copy of the Visa to be sent to Sri Lankan Airways before Srilankan airways released the ticket.
This is so true if you are travelling from a 3 rd. world contry (Indonesia, India) to a top rated country (UK, USA, Canada,Europe, Saudi, UAE)
For blocking your seats, you donot need a visa.
TK A
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Originally posted by chandresh
Or may be I have never come across any TA who needs to see my visa before he can sell me a ticket - and I have travelled around the globe quite a few times!
Chandresh
With all due respects to you Chandresh, what cdn_dude said is true. As a matter of fact even I've done a couple of dozen global trips from India and good TAs always ensure that the prospective traveller has all the required documents (Visa, Passport etc) for travel to that destination - before issuing the ticket.
They also verify whether there are any travel restrictions - like ECR or ECNR stamp etc.. on the passport.
I'm assuming that the traveller is a bona fide Indian Citizen.
In India, My Travel agent also asked me to fax the visa to him to show that to airlines. It is a requirement in India, pakistan etc..
But it is not a practice in singapore, western countries etc..
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Originally posted by heaven
In India, My Travel agent also asked me to fax the visa to him to show that to airlines. It is a requirement in India, pakistan etc..
But it is not a practice in singapore, western countries etc..
There you go...........
May be they do it only in India, Pakistan etc as you say. I left India 23 years ago and though changed citizenship only recently, was NEVER asked to show visa to issue a ticket and all the countries I travelled to, as an Indian I required a valid visa.
And I have bought tickets from India, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, London, Canada and USA so there were different travel agents involved at each place.
May be once you are out of India, travel agents know that you know the requirements of travelling outside of the country and therefore they only remind you, but not ask you to produce a visa.
Chandresh
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Chandresh
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i have contacted some of the travel agents in Bangalore and they asked me for the photocopy of my visa. So planning to book the tickets online ...
Lufthansa says INR 97,000 and odds
Singapore Airlines says INR 78,000 and odds
Any other airlines i can try ?? Please ..let me know.
Location: Mississauga/ Toronto, Can
Posted on: 15-03-07 09:56:00
Check out: http://www.expedia.com/ - you have many options there.
--Trinity
Thanks for the link Trinity.
Just now spoke to my friend in the US, who is going to Canada to marry her g'frnd. He is working in the US and his g'frnd was in the US for 3-4 months in a student visa and could not be able to continue her studies and went to Singapore to her sister's place. My frnd's aunt has been a Canadian citizen since 1980,living in Toronto, sent an invitation to her, to visit Canada by stating as a family frnd. He told me that she has not booked any tickets when she was applying for the TRV in Singapore and she got the TRV. Is that just coz, the invitation letter from a Canadian citizen or coz of the US visa?
The airlines (lufthansa) say sometimes the airfares are not refundable,if i cancel. Does the air-ticket help me in getting the TRV easily ?
Please let me know.
Thanks much in advance.
Regards,
tint3d.
