Originally Posted by
steex
Only one other data point, but I've been casually looking at a variety of Australia/New Zealand itineraries out of SFO for the fall. The baseline price was 37.5k to 42.5k one-way for them yesterday, all the same routes show up starting at 65k now (this applies to both QF and FJ routes). Unclear if that's a blanket devaluation or coincidental shift in inventory for AS.
Incidentally, I see that nonstop SFO-NAN is still 37.5k and nonstop SFO-SYD is still 42.5k, but adding any kind of connection beyond NAN/SYD jumps the price to 65k.
Funny enough, they show SYD-NZ for 7.5k as a standalone segment. If these prices are real/bookable (I've not tried), booking your own two separate tickets on QF would be 50k for SFO-SYD-NZ while booking a single connecting itinerary would be 65k.
It feels like we probably shouldn't rule out the potential that this is a glitch rather than a devaluation just yet.