How We Verify Airport Currency Exchange Information
Every airport guide on JesTiny Guide tries to answer three questions: who runs the currency exchange counters, where exactly they are, and what rules you need to know. This page explains where those answers come from, how we decide between sources that disagree, and what we do when we get something wrong.
Which sources we trust most
Not every source is equal. When we write or check a guide, we rank what we find in this order:
- The airport's own website, or the airport operator's shop and services directory. If the airport names the counter and its location, that is our strongest evidence.
- The exchange company's own pages, such as a branch list or a press release about a new airport store.
- Government and central bank sources, such as customs pages and Reserve Bank of India circulars, for cash limits and declaration rules.
- News and trade reports, which often report when a new operator wins an airport contract.
- Travel guides, forums and traveller reports. These are useful for details the official sources leave out, such as which side of the hall a counter sits on, but we treat them as weaker evidence and say where a fact comes from.
Each guide ends with a list of the sources we read, with the type of source and its date. If a source is undated, we say so.
When sources disagree
Airports change operators, move counters and open new terminals, so older pages often say something different from newer ones. When two sources disagree, we prefer the higher source in the list above, and the more recent one. If we still cannot tell which is right, we say that both versions exist rather than picking one. We call a fact confirmed only when an official source says it directly, or when at least two independent sources agree.
What we do not claim
We do not invent rates, opening hours or counter locations to fill gaps. If we could not confirm something, the guide says so in a short "What we could not confirm" note. We do not name a "best counter" at an airport unless we have a source that supports it.
The exchange rates shown on our home page are indicative mid-market reference rates from public sources, updated once a day. They are a benchmark, not the rate any counter will give you. Always ask for the final amount you will receive before you hand over money.
How often we re-check
We re-check the airport guides every month, starting with the airports where operators change most often. Each guide shows the date it was last checked at the top. When a re-check changes a fact, we update the guide and record the change on our updates and corrections page.
Indian rules on cash, PAN and customs declarations are kept on one page, our India money rules, so they are correct in one place and do not drift apart between guides.
How we handle mistakes
If we find that a guide was wrong, we fix the guide and add a dated entry to the updates and corrections page saying what changed. The guide itself shows only the current, checked information.
Who checks the guides
The guides are written and checked by Syam, who runs JesTiny Guide. No currency exchange company, bank or airport pays us or reviews our guides before they go live.
Tell us what you saw
If you passed through an airport and something did not match our guide, such as a counter that has closed, a new operator or different opening hours, please email us at jestinyguideofficial@gmail.com. Tell us the airport, the terminal, the date and what you saw. A photo of the counter or rate board helps. We check every report against other sources before we change a guide.
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