How to go broke travelling from Kochi to Bangalore
I'd booked a flight on Cleartrip dot com, and they've been reminding me to book my "free" ticket. The reason for those inverted commas was that they said only the base fare was free, and the taxes (which usually amount to 3 or 4 times the base
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You were being offered routes to Kochi Airport, Japan! It did come as a surprise to me that there was a Kochi in Japan too! The code for the Japanese Kochi is KCZ while the Indian Kochi airport is COK. No wonder you were being shown astronomical fares!
By the way, KIX is Kansai International Airport, Osaka, Japan, HND is Haneda Airport, also in Japan, SIN is Changi International Airport, Singapore (Nothing to do which Chengi!) and HKG is indeed Hongkong!
Here's a link to the 'official' IATA page where you can find airport codes.
http://www.iata.org/ps/publications/Pages/code-search.aspx
'Kochi' brings up both COK and KCZ.
This site, unlike the search facility on the 'official page' lists most major airports.
http://www.photius.com/wfb2001/airport_codes_alpha.html
That was some gaffe! I don't blame you for it though. The site ought to have shown the destination in full, like 'Kochi, Japan' instead of just Kochi.
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