The Green Channel is for passengers with nothing dutiable or restricted to declare, meaning you are within the free allowance (Rs 75,000 for most adult travellers). The Red Channel is for anyone carrying dutiable or restricted goods, or value above the allowance. Walking through Green when you should use Red is an offence under the […]
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Usually no. On most routes, flight prices rise as departure nears because airlines sell their cheapest fare buckets first and save the last seats for high-paying last-minute travellers. A genuine last-minute drop only happens when a flight is badly undersold — it’s the exception, not a plan you can rely on. For most Indian trips,
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For domestic flights inside India, you generally do NOT need a consent letter to travel with a child who has a different surname — but carry the child’s age proof and any document linking you (birth certificate, passport). International travel is different: some countries and airlines ask for a notarised consent or authorisation letter when
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Keep in your cabin bag anything valuable, fragile, or lithium-powered: power banks and spare batteries, phones, laptops, medicines, documents, and one change of clothes. Put in checked baggage anything sharp, bulky, or over 100ml of liquid: full-size toiletries, tools, and most aerosols. A few flammables are banned from both bags entirely. Updated June 2026 ·
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It depends on the aircraft, airline and cabin — not the airline as a whole. Many wide-body long-haul jets have USB ports and often AC power sockets at every seat, while a lot of narrow-body domestic flights in India have no seat power at all, or USB only. The only reliable answer is to check
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Pack your carry-on with the things you can’t afford to lose or wait for: ID and travel documents, wallet, phone with a charger and power bank, all your medicines, one change of clothes, and valuables like a laptop or jewellery. Add comfort items — earphones, an eye mask, a neck pillow, an empty water bottle
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Yes — you can bring your personal laptop, phone and gadgets into India. One laptop and your in-use phone are customarily treated as personal effects within the Rs 75,000 duty-free allowance, so there’s usually no duty. Brand-new, sealed or multiple identical high-value items can be taxed — declare them via the Red Channel and keep
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The stamp or punch on your boarding pass is the CISF’s proof that you and your cabin bag cleared the security check. The gate agent re-checks it before letting you board, so an unstamped pass gets you turned back. This is still standard at most Indian airports in 2026 — it has not been universally
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On a long Indian-airport layover you have three ways to rest: a transit hotel inside the international transit area (so you never clear immigration), a landside day-room or hourly hotel booked in blocks of a few hours, or a paid lounge with recliners. Availability differs sharply by airport and terminal — Delhi’s T3 has the
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When you fly back to India in 2026, the General Free Allowance lets Indian residents, NRIs, OCI cardholders and foreigners on non-tourist visas bring in goods worth up to Rs 75,000 duty-free (Rs 25,000 for foreign tourists of non-Indian origin), per CBIC Baggage Rules 2026. That covers used personal effects plus gifts and souvenirs, along
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