I wish air travel was as easy as busses and trains, and one could just hop on and off and change plans around at a whim. I wanted to try and stay an extra week, as that would make a world of difference in being able to see all the places in North India I want to see. As far as contacting United Airlines to see about changing my connection from Bangkok to SFO the internet failed my miserably. Oh internet! I had some much faith in thee. All I could find online was an office in Delhi, with no phone number listed. After some more searching I found a number. This turned out to be, of course, the phone number for Scandinavian Airlines. So useless. Amazingly, the Bangalore yellow pages listed a U.A. office in B’lore, and one of the three numbers actually worked! (on the second try) and gave me the opportunity to find out that it’ll cost US$100 to change the date. Which is a lot better than it could be. Often one can’t change anything at all except for buying a new ticket. Still, I don’t think it really worth it just for one extra week. Besides, there are things I’ve gotta get done and gotta go home to do them. It does look like I’ll be able to change my flight on Air India leaving from Bombay to Bangkok into leaving from Delhi. Considering that my flight from BKK to Bombay stopped in Delhi then took off again, and that this flight is likely to do the same, I thought it should be pretty straight forward, and even profitable, for them to change it. True to the style of the land it can’t possibly be simple enough to just to go to the Air India office and get a new ticket. They have to leave a message with a different office and then I call a number in a few days, tell someone at the other end a magic number that was given to me, and they will tell me if I’ve been granted permission for the change. Only then can I go all the way back to the first Air India office and finally get it done. Could be worse, many of the other volunteers here end up trying to change their flights in some way or another, and lots of those end up getting put on endless waiting lists or completely unable to except for as much money as a new ticket would cost, etc.