Originally Posted by
sooge_sj
How about just flying SFO to HKG on UA, and the doing a HKG to SYD or MEL round trip. It is definitely more hours of flying, but it might be cheaper.
SFO to HKG one way on UA is $529 on Feb 28th, and there seems to be many options from HKG to SYD/MEL round trip for less than $600 including SQ, TG, and MH.
Yes, I started considering this option. It's actually even cheaper to fly with UA to SIN via HKG...
Either way, I'm quite averse to having an extra 10 hours or so of flight time