Originally Posted by
40love
Jakarta is not listed as on sale on either site - however try booking during certain periods and you will get a LOWER fare than for AKL-DPS-AKL (in either direction) even though many of those flights transit DPS and include a Garuda flight to/from CGK.
DPS is becoming an bit like SIN/HKG, where it’s cheaper to fly through them than stop there.
Often you’ll see CX do say AKL-HKG-China mainline, for $100s less than than AKL-HKG.
Or when I booked AKL-SIN-HAN last week, it was $400 cheaper than just flying AKL-SIN on the same flight.