Originally Posted by
canolakid
You need to also consider what events down under would drive up pricing on the Aus-Cda legs- school holidays, start of vacation time, ski season. Recent example: lots of room Canada to Australia during the first week of the Commonwealth Games; very little coming back. Priced out according to the return.
Google flights will give some limited sense of pricing history for a defined itinerary and set of dates; or flag you with a price in a zone you set- not complete transparency but can give some insight into day of week low fares.
There's no particular events driving this at the moment, it's just low/mid-$8000s pretty much any time. I've already been watching Google Flights.
Originally Posted by
ced_lx
Same boat here but from YUL. Ended up booking paid YUL-NRT then award NRT-MEL with JAL . AC has really good fares in J for the new YUL-NRT flight, sub 4k CAD.
Potentially a good option from YUL. From YYC, it costs almost as much to get to NRT as it does to go all the way to Australia.
Originally Posted by
worldtraveller73
Actually, I was referring to travelling LAX/SFO/PDX-YVR-SYD; all on AC metal. Test it out, you may be surprised with the fare differences than versus UA with one stop via SFO/LAX. AC typically tries to poach a UA customer to grow international connecting traffic.
That's exactly what I thought you were saying. And it makes no difference. AC wants low/mid-$8000s for things like SFO-BNE, PDX-SYD, LAX-MEL (connecting via YVR). Maybe $200-300 cheaper, but that doesn't pay for the positioning flights, let alone compensate for the substantial extra time.