Say the hard thing on day one
If a date is not achievable, you hear it in the first conversation rather than the third month. A lost deposit is recoverable. A lost semester is not.
About the desk
A sequencing business
that happens to sell
visas and seats.
Flight Plus Visa was founded in 2016 after one too many seasons watching capable centres and capable HR teams lose dates they had every reason to hold. Nobody was doing the boring part — deciding what had to happen in which order, for forty people at once.
12,400+ Visa files processed Since 2016
96.4% Approval rate All categories, FY 2024–25
310+ Group departures managed Cohorts of 10 to 120
48 hrs Median file-ready time From complete documents
How it started
The season that started this.
In 2015 a Hyderabad consultancy sent us — then a two-person travel desk — a list of thirty-eight students headed to Russian medical universities that September. Their documents were in order. Their admissions were real. By the end of August, eleven had not travelled, because nobody had noticed that apostille had to precede translation, and the translations had to be redone.
None of that was a failure of effort. It was a failure of sequence, and it was entirely predictable to anyone who had run the process before. We spent that winter writing the order of operations down, per country, per category. That document is still the spine of how the firm works.
Since then we have processed over twelve thousand files and managed more than three hundred group departures. The business has grown into three offices and three country desks, but the premise has not moved: a cohort is a scheduling problem wearing a paperwork costume.
How we work
Six things we will not
negotiate on.
These are the rules we hire against and, occasionally, the rules we lose business over. We are comfortable with that trade.
Never sell certainty we do not have
No guaranteed visas, no special channels, no influence over outcomes. Anyone in this trade offering those is either lying or about to get your applicant refused.
Sequence beats effort
Almost every failed cohort we have inherited failed on order of operations, not on diligence. We are, at bottom, a sequencing business.
One tracker, visible to both sides
You see what we see. Status calls exist because someone is hiding a delay; we would rather you found it before we did.
Depth over coverage
Three countries done properly rather than thirty done on a website. When a fourth is genuinely better served elsewhere, we will name the agency.
The date is the deliverable
Not the filing, not the fare, not the paperwork. Whether the group was where it had to be, on the day it had to be there.
The desk
Twenty-eight people,
three offices.
Small enough that the person who quoted your file is the person who runs it. Large enough that no cohort depends on one individual being at their desk.
A. Raghavan
Founder & principal
Fifteen years in outbound documentation, previously head of student mobility at a national consultancy.
S. Bhattacharya
Head of filing
Runs the New Delhi desk and the quality-read protocol. Built the checklist architecture the whole firm uses.
M. Iqbal
Head of air
Twenty years in airline group contracting across Gulf, European and Russian carriers.
P. Nair
Student mobility lead
Hyderabad desk. Owns Russian and German student cohorts and the mock interview programme.
R. Mehrotra
Corporate accounts
Mumbai desk. Policy integration, procurement, and the accounts that call at eleven at night.
D. Sengupta
Compliance & records
Document custody, versioning, data retention and the audit trail nobody thinks about until it matters.
Names and portraits are placeholders pending the current team page.
The formal bits
Registration & compliance.
- Incorporated2016, New Delhi
- Registered entityPrivate limited, India
- Trade membershipsIATA-accredited partner network · TAAI member
- InsuranceProfessional indemnity & errors and omissions cover
- Data handlingApplicant records retained per engagement terms, then destroyed
- OfficesNew Delhi · Hyderabad · Mumbai
We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or acting on behalf of any embassy, consulate or government authority, and we hold no expedited channel of any kind.
Where we are
Three desks, one file system.
New Delhi
Head office & filing desk
4th Floor, Statesman HouseBarakhamba Road, Connaught PlaceNew Delhi 110001Hyderabad
Student mobility desk
Unit 902, Cyber HeightsHITEC City, MadhapurHyderabad 500081Mumbai
Corporate accounts
Level 5, Marathon FuturexLower ParelMumbai 400013Start a file
We would rather be judged on one file.
No pitch deck, no onboarding programme. Send us the next awkward group and see how the first two weeks go.