Train travel the way to go in India

For foreign travellers it's a colourful and more expedient way to see the country, where roads are mostly bad and car trips extremely time consuming.

While cheaper plane tickets are making air travel another option, an early morning takeoff from a major city can be as confusing and crowded as tackling any train station.

Trains are popular for long distance travel. While people usually go by bus for short distances, it's possible to book sleeping berths in some buses.

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India's Jet Airways will soon look at operating direct services to almost all of India's large cities

Jet Airways Gulf, Middle East and North Africa general manager Abraham Joseph said the immediate priority was to launch world-class services from Bahrain when it begins operations on January 5.

"We are starting off with a flight a day to Mumbai and Kochi, from Bahrain, both of which will be non-stop operations," said Mr Joseph.

"The 14 flights every week will operate state-of-the-art Boeing 737-800 aircraft, in the configuration of 124 economy and 16 business class seats."

Mr Joseph was addressing the media during a luncheon organised at The Kebab Factory, Jawad Dome, in Barbar.

Indian Railways: Getting Agents on Track

The traditional revenue stream of most travel agents in India, airline ticketing, has been under a cloud in the recent past with drastic commission cuts undertaken by airlines. From 12 per cent commission till 2001, commission was reduced to seven per cent in 2004. Currently at five per cent, travel agents are faced with a prospect of zero commission in the near future. Against this backdrop, the figure of about 61 per cent of Full Service Carrier (FSCs) passengers in India booking their tickets through travel agents reiterates the need for the agents to seek alternate source of revenue.