Five Important “Did you knows” of Air Travel

1. 1.       If you booked from Yatra or Make-my-trip or any third-party kind of sites, and had to cancel your tickets, the airline will charge Rs.1000 per ticket but these sites will charge anywhere between 350-500 additional.
2. 2.       When booking from third party sites, the price of tickets shown initially will match exactly if you go to the airline site but when you are just about to make the payment, the price goes up by Rs.125 per ticket/sector/passenger. These are convenience fees. Many airlines also charge Rs.100-Rs.125 per ticket/sector/passenger if payment is made by credit card. Net banking attracts no fees.
3. 3.       If you have booked a special return fare ticket (irrespective of third party or airline site), it means that once you have taken one part of the journey, many airlines will not allow you to make any modifications/cancellations to the return part. You have to forego the entire fare in case you are unable to travel back on the scheduled date/time. Since the fare difference is hardly a few hundred rupees when doing special return fare as opposed to two separate tickets, it is better to book two separate tickets even if you have an iota of doubt about your return journey.
4. 4.       The cheapest (not the quickest) way to book a ticket is to check prices in  third-party sites and then call the respective airline and book the ticket over phone. Once the agent books your ticket, they send a PNR number on your email and you have 24hrs to make the payment. They keep the reservation on hold for 24 hours and there is no extra charge. If you booked on web instead of phone there is an extra 100-125 per ticket charge.
5. 5.       Finally, many airlines run an unaccompanied minor service wherein they pick your minor from the airport and drop him/her to the destination. They will take care of the luggage, check-in, security, boarding, give minor food and hand the minor over to the person you have instructed after checking for his/her photo ID. The typical charges are Rs.1500 per sector. However, Spice Jet will refund this 1500 in case of cancellations but Go-Air will not.