IndiGo booking check, 6E Fare Hold and international check-in

How to look up a booking on IndiGo

1. 1Open goindigo.in and choose Edit booking, which you can also reach from My trips.
2. 2Type the PNR or booking reference from your itinerary.
3. 3Add either the email ID the booking was made with or a passenger’s last name.
4. 4Check passenger names, flight numbers, times and the fare type, because the Lite Fare changes how you check in.
5. 5When web check-in opens, 48 hours before a domestic flight or 24 hours before an international one, use the same two details.

6E Fare Hold or a flight reservation for the visa

6E Fare Hold costs from ₹49 per passenger on domestic and international flights booked on goindigo.in. The fee is non-refundable, is not adjusted against the fare and cannot be paid with points or vouchers. At least four days must separate booking and departure, and you pick the hold length when you buy it, from 6 hours up to 96 hours depending on how far away the flight is (see the table). If the full fare is not paid within that time, the booking is cancelled automatically.

It is the cheapest official hold among Indian airlines, and it suits a traveller who will fly IndiGo and needs a few days to confirm leave or move money. As a visa document it is weaker: even the 96-hour option ends long before most embassies decide.

A flight reservation for the visa answers a narrower question: does the file show a sensible route in your name on the day you submit? The desk holds it without payment, and the holding airline sets its life, which varies from airline to airline. If you want IndiGo on it, name IndiGo as the preferred airline when you order; the desk confirms what it can hold on your route before it sends a secure payment link.

Web check-in, Lite Fare and the document check

Domestic web check-in runs from 48 hours to 60 minutes before departure. International web check-in runs from 24 hours to 75 minutes before, and the airport counters stay open until 60 minutes before domestic and 75 minutes before international departures.

Checking in online for an international flight from India does not end on your phone. The boarding-pass screen tells you to present valid documents at the check-in counter to collect the boarding pass, so the counter sees your passport and visa either way. On the Lite Fare, launched on 1 July 2026, international web check-in is not offered at all: use an IndiGo counter or kiosk. Unaccompanied minors and wheelchair users also check in at the counter.

IndiGo’s international flying in 2026

IndiGo’s long-haul experiment changed fast. Release titles show Mumbai–Manchester from 1 July 2025 and Mumbai–Amsterdam from 2 July 2025 on leased Norse Atlantic 787s. In 2026 IndiGo dropped Manchester from 31 August, paused London Heathrow until its own A350s arrive, and said wide-body flights end on 25 October 2026, with Mumbai–Amsterdam moving to the A321XLR from that date.

New routes went the other way: a daily Kolkata–Shanghai service, Delhi–Colombo from 27 March, Chennai–Réunion from 29 April, a second A321XLR on Delhi–Istanbul from 19 April, Gaya–Bangkok from 26 October and Guwahati–Bangkok from 27 October. IndiGo became the first airline at Noida International Airport on 15 June 2026. Six destinations (Langkawi, Krabi, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Siem Reap) were paused from early July to 30 September, with bookings reopening from 1 October.

The Gulf was disrupted too. IndiGo ran a reduced 252 weekly Middle East flights from 16 to 28 March 2026, added a fuel charge from 14 March, and resumed Doha on 1 May 2026.

Codeshares and connections through a hub

IndiGo is not in an alliance. It sells partner flights through codeshares, and its release titles name Turkish Airlines, Qantas, British Airways, Japan Airlines, Malaysia Airlines, American and Air France-KLM. In June 2025 it also signed an MoU with Delta, Air France-KLM and Virgin Atlantic.

A codeshare connection on one booking is the clean way to show a journey beyond IndiGo’s own network. At Amsterdam, for example, India is not on the Dutch airport-transit-visa list, but you must leave the transit zone to re-check bags or to fly on to another Schengen city, and then you need a Schengen visa. At Istanbul, airside transit for Indian passport holders was not confirmed on an official page for this guide, so check before relying on it. Two separate tickets mean collecting bags at the hub, which is entry, not transit.

If an IndiGo booking will not open

Swap the second field. A booking made by a travel agent or a relative may carry their email address, so try the passenger’s last name instead, or the other way round. Recheck the reference for characters that are easy to confuse, such as the letter O and the digit 0.

An unpaid 6E Fare Hold cancels itself when its window closes, and any other unpaid reservation goes when IndiGo releases it. A flight reservation ordered for a visa file is subject to the same release, so it is dated for the day you submit.

6E Fare Hold: hold lengths by time to departure

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