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Jayapura, West Papua to Darwin, Australia

Old Oct 6, 2015, 10:46 am
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Jayapura, West Papua to Darwin, Australia

Traveling around and to/from Indonesia is always a challenge and we spent a ton of time in airports. To get from Jayapura on the northern coast of West Papua to Darwin, Australia without going through Jakarta, the best I could come up with is:


Garuda has Jayapura-Bali at 9:25 getting in at 1:45
VirginAustralia Bali-Darwin 9:10 pm (14 hr flight thru Brisbane)

If anyone here enjoys a good flight puzzle and wants to help out with better flights (shorter layover, shorter flights) I would be SO GRATEFUL. These flights will be following a 21-day trip through West Papua, including long flights from the U.S. (DCA-ORD-NRT-SIN-Manado-Sorong plus 2 internal flights).

FYI the flight needs to be on Tues Sept 13. Most of the sites have Sept. grayed out so I used August just to check Tuesday schedules.
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FT is not a travel agency. Really.
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Old Oct 6, 2015, 2:40 pm
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Look at the airlines that fly into DRW http://www.darwinairport.com.au/pass...ation/arrivals
Look at SIN. BNE is a long diversion
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Old Oct 7, 2015, 12:26 am
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Have you looked into flying out of Vanimo on the New Guinea side to Port Moresby? From there -CNS-DRW.

According to http://www.flightconnections.com/, Jetstar and AirAsia fly DPS-DRW.

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Old Oct 7, 2015, 12:59 am
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Just spend some time on the beach in Bali.
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Old Oct 7, 2015, 2:43 am
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About the only way to do it is the Jayapura-Timika-Bali flight on garuda you have mentioned (if you want to avoid Jakarta).

There is definitely a non-stop denpasar darwin flight but i cant remember which airline. I think it's jetstar.
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Old Oct 7, 2015, 2:51 am
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Here are the avaialble non stops from DPS to Darwin:
Depart 330pm (that would be tight off the Timika flight which can see lots of weather delays) Air Asia 540 on Sun/Mon/Fri

4:15pm (probably doable) Air Asia 540 on Wed

and Jetstar 82 departs 6:30pm Sun/Mon/Fri as well. That's the safer bet ex Timika/Jayapura
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Old Oct 19, 2015, 6:33 am
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It would appear that you are not a moderator. Please allow the moderators to determine what is/is not appropriate for a particular forum, as they have done here. If you are not interested in a post, just ignore it. There must be hundreds of posts that don't interest you. Do you take the time to respond to all of them, discouraging other members in the process?
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Old Oct 19, 2015, 6:35 am
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Thank you! That's a great idea and we may try it. How hard is it to drive across that border given the political strain in the region?
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Old Oct 19, 2015, 6:36 am
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We did find a direct flight to Darwin on Virgin Australia via a third-party site but when I went to the Virgin Australia site, it didn't exist!
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So how was your trip OP?
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