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Title: Flights to Australia
Post by: Andy B on May 16, 2012, 04:28:35 pm
Does anyone know of any particularly cheap places to try and pick up flights to Australia please?
Title: Re: Flights to Australia
Post by: tomtom on May 16, 2012, 04:35:03 pm
I booked my works trip to Darwin a few weeks ago... at c.£850 with Singapore.. down from £1k the same time in 2010...

I've been c.5 times in the last 6 or 7 years and I've never managed less than £780... I (now) always try and go with Singapore.. not the cheapest, nor most luxurious ecomomy class (Emirates?) but really decent, well run and good value... Nearly all on the A380's now as well.... (a more pleasant two days in a plane than on a 747..).

Might be worth checking Air NZ - they've been pretty agressive recently...
Title: Re: Flights to Australia
Post by: Andy B on May 17, 2012, 05:23:22 pm
Nice one, thank you.
Title: Re: Re: Flights to Australia
Post by: dave on May 17, 2012, 05:52:45 pm
Does anyone know of any particularly cheap places to try and pick up flights to Australia please?

Try new zealand.
Title: Re: Flights to Australia
Post by: Andy B on May 17, 2012, 06:46:57 pm
and a big thankyou to you too, dickhead.
Title: Re: Flights to Australia
Post by: dave on May 17, 2012, 07:11:13 pm
you're welcome.
Title: Re: Flights to Australia
Post by: r-man on May 17, 2012, 07:27:56 pm
We went in 2010, 560 quid return - a deal we saw on the net with STA travel (you don't have to be under 25 for all their deals, we weren't). That was flying with Emirates.
Title: Re: Flights to Australia
Post by: Johnny Brown on May 17, 2012, 08:59:29 pm
When I went to Taipan for the weekend, my boss advised Emirates - was £800ish. He commutes between Huddersfield and Brisbane every other week so seemed worth listening to.
Title: Re: Flights to Australia
Post by: Bonjoy on May 18, 2012, 08:08:55 am
We used STA travel too
Title: Re: Flights to Australia
Post by: Bubba on May 18, 2012, 07:32:09 pm
He commutes between Huddersfield and Brisbane every other week
Fuck that!
Title: Re: Flights to Australia
Post by: Johnny Brown on May 18, 2012, 07:50:26 pm
I exaggerate, but only slightly. He didn't think sending me on a quick week of meetings in Singapore, Melbourne, Perth and Dubai was a big deal at any rate.
Title: Re: Flights to Australia
Post by: Mike Tyson on May 24, 2012, 12:32:56 pm
Whilst we are on the topic of travelling to Australia, I had a question regards visa application. I Google'd "Australian holiday visa" and followed a link which listed the price as £20 for an instant visa. However, I have found a place that will do it for £6.50 if I can wait 24-72 hours! As I am not going until July I am tempted by the cheaper one (Who wouldn't be!) but as a general rule of thumb, is there a preferred/specific place to obtain ones visa from?

Title: Re: Flights to Australia
Post by: DaveC on May 24, 2012, 12:46:06 pm
All Australian visas are issued by Australian Immigration in London at the end of the day so regardless of what you pay a travel agent or the like for the visa, they're going to get the rest off you somewhere else. In other words there is no 'free market' in travel visas...well not a legal one anyway.
Title: Re: Flights to Australia
Post by: Mike Tyson on May 24, 2012, 01:11:37 pm
Thanks for that. It just seems rather odd that there is such a vast price range (At first glance).

I don't quite fancy the cheapest looking site, at £6.50 per visa, so will more than likely go through the official immigration website.
Title: Re: Flights to Australia
Post by: Johnny Brown on May 24, 2012, 04:41:22 pm
I had no idea I needed one until I checked in after a 24hr stopover in Singapore. I think it was £40, so that's another option.
Title: Re: Flights to Australia
Post by: tomtom on May 24, 2012, 10:11:06 pm
Yeah, you just register online - then when they check your passport on arrival its all OK.... etc...
I think the basic tourist/short stay business visa is done this way anyway...
Title: Re: Flights to Australia
Post by: fatdoc on May 24, 2012, 10:20:32 pm
When I went to Taipan for the weekend, my boss advised Emirates - was £800ish. He commutes between Huddersfield and Brisbane every other week so seemed worth listening to.

Christ....
Title: Re: Flights to Australia
Post by: tomtom on May 24, 2012, 10:38:50 pm
When I went to Taipan for the weekend, my boss advised Emirates - was £800ish. He commutes between Huddersfield and Brisbane every other week so seemed worth listening to.

Christ....

Precisely, Brisbane of all places.... ;)
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