International Travel

A Bengaluru-based couple sitting in a Koramangala cafe scrolling through Bali reels is one of the most common honeymoon-planning scenes in 2026. The pull of rice terraces in Ubud, cliffside sunset bars in Uluwatu, and the easy promise of warm beaches feels exactly like what a long-overdue break should look like. The question that follows

If you have spent any time inside Indian credit card forums, group chats or rewards subreddits in the last few years, you already know the pattern. Someone posts a screenshot of a long-haul business class ticket booked on points. The replies fall into two groups. The first group asks which card. The second group asks

Imagine a Tamil Nadu professional family in Chennai mapping out their first family week in Dubai. Two adults working in IT, one school age daughter, a budget that needs respect, and a long calendar of competing tasks. They want a fair fare, a comfortable cabin, a sane arrival experience at DXB, and a clean path

You have a HDFC Infinia or Diners Black in your wallet. A few crore Reward Points are sitting in your account. The cash fares on the May Delhi[/INTERNAL-LINK] to Frankfurt route on Air India look reasonable on HappyFares[/INTERNAL-LINK], but the business class number for the same flight is into the lakhs. Then you remember reading

If you carry an Indian passport and you are thinking about a trip in 2026, the most useful thing to know is not the exact global rank of the passport. It is which countries you can actually walk into, which ones you can enter with a small online application, and which ones still need a

## The Indian Business Traveller’s Doha Decision Picture this. You are an Indian business traveller leaving Mumbai on a Sunday evening, a client meeting in Doha at 10 AM Monday, and a return slot Tuesday night that gets you back into BOM before Wednesday’s all-hands. The flight you book matters. The alliance that flight sits