Multi-City Flight advice please
Aug 17, 2014 | 3:13 pm
#1
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Join Date: Aug 2014
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Multi-City Flight advice please
Hi all
New to the forum, but hoping for some advice.
I'm flying with my family in 2015.
We're flying the following route
London to Adelaide
Adelaide to Sydney
Sydney to London
Does anyone have advice on the best place to get tickets, and if I'm likely to get better prices online or through an agent.
London is in the UK
Adelaide and a Sydney in Australia
I'll be buying by tickets out of London.
Cheers.
New to the forum, but hoping for some advice.
I'm flying with my family in 2015.
We're flying the following route
London to Adelaide
Adelaide to Sydney
Sydney to London
Does anyone have advice on the best place to get tickets, and if I'm likely to get better prices online or through an agent.
London is in the UK
Adelaide and a Sydney in Australia
I'll be buying by tickets out of London.
Cheers.
Aug 17, 2014 | 4:24 pm
#2
Join Date: Jun 2010
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I always book airfare, hotels, pretty much everything in my life online.
If I were doing this I would do test bookings with several airlines using different dates around when you want to go. That way you will get a feel for price and schedules.
All the flying I did within Australia was done on Qantas.
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Enjoy your trip to Australia! I love it there.
If I were doing this I would do test bookings with several airlines using different dates around when you want to go. That way you will get a feel for price and schedules.
All the flying I did within Australia was done on Qantas.
Quantas link
Enjoy your trip to Australia! I love it there.
Aug 17, 2014 | 10:30 pm
#4
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Multi-City Flight advice please
Check matrix.itasoftware.com and you can easily search for the cheapest airline and dates. Very likely cheapest to buy online. It could be cheaper to buy separate returns from London to Sydney and Sydney to Adaleide (though perhaps riskier or less convenient).
Aug 17, 2014 | 11:26 pm
#5
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Price the long intercontinental legs separately, as an open jaw, and look at a cheap, separate one-way ticket ADL-SYD via Tigerair or JetStar. Perhaps cheaper than one multi-city itinerary.
Aug 18, 2014 | 9:23 am
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I'm saying that before you automatically book LHR-ADL-SYD-LHR, try just booking the long legs as an open jaw, then price the domestic ADL-SYD one-way flight separately (it can cost as little as AUD$55 or so on Tiger). The net total could be cheaper.
Aug 19, 2014 | 3:50 am
#8
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Google is your friend. An "open jaw" booking is where you fly to one city and home from a second. In your case, to ADL, home from SYD.
I'm saying that before you automatically book LHR-ADL-SYD-LHR, try just booking the long legs as an open jaw, then price the domestic ADL-SYD one-way flight separately (it can cost as little as AUD$55 or so on Tiger). The net total could be cheaper.
I'm saying that before you automatically book LHR-ADL-SYD-LHR, try just booking the long legs as an open jaw, then price the domestic ADL-SYD one-way flight separately (it can cost as little as AUD$55 or so on Tiger). The net total could be cheaper.
Aug 19, 2014 | 4:53 am
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LHR/LGW-ADL restricts your options a lot. ADL has little international traffic
Far better to book LHR/LGW-SYD return and SYD-ADL return as a separate ticket. Allow plenty of time for connections: overnight if you can
Airlines that fly in Australia domestically
- Virgin Australia (Delta partner)
- Jetstar (a low cost, low quality carrier with low-medium-high priced fares owned by QF)
- Qantas (OneWorld)
- Tiger Airways (a low cost, low quality carrier with low fares majority owned by Virgin Australia. Poor on time record)
- Regional Express Airways (REX) Regional airline
Far better to book LHR/LGW-SYD return and SYD-ADL return as a separate ticket. Allow plenty of time for connections: overnight if you can
Airlines that fly in Australia domestically
- Virgin Australia (Delta partner)
- Jetstar (a low cost, low quality carrier with low-medium-high priced fares owned by QF)
- Qantas (OneWorld)
- Tiger Airways (a low cost, low quality carrier with low fares majority owned by Virgin Australia. Poor on time record)
- Regional Express Airways (REX) Regional airline
Aug 19, 2014 | 2:34 pm
#10
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Qantas and Emirates have a codeshare. LHR-DXB is an A380-800 (EK1/QF8001) and DXB-ADL is a 777-300ER (EK440/QF8440). ADL-SYD is a 737-800 (EK5730/QF730). SYD-DXB you have the choice of QF's A380-800 (EK5001/QF1) or EK's A380 (EK413/QF8413).
As for the question of where to find it, I have absolutely no idea although Kayak has a multi-city function.
As for the question of where to find it, I have absolutely no idea although Kayak has a multi-city function.
Aug 19, 2014 | 3:44 pm
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Don't assume that London is the cheapest starting point as well.
In business class, it's almost certainly not cheapest. If you are going to be flying economy, you can sometimes make very substantial savings from starting somewhere such as Ireland or Norway.
Use ITA Matrix and Kayak to play around with your options.
In business class, it's almost certainly not cheapest. If you are going to be flying economy, you can sometimes make very substantial savings from starting somewhere such as Ireland or Norway.
Use ITA Matrix and Kayak to play around with your options.
Aug 21, 2014 | 5:54 am
#12
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Don't assume that London is the cheapest starting point as well.
In business class, it's almost certainly not cheapest. If you are going to be flying economy, you can sometimes make very substantial savings from starting somewhere such as Ireland or Norway.
Use ITA Matrix and Kayak to play around with your options.
In business class, it's almost certainly not cheapest. If you are going to be flying economy, you can sometimes make very substantial savings from starting somewhere such as Ireland or Norway.
Use ITA Matrix and Kayak to play around with your options.
I took a look using different departure cities.
The saving was there, but it would be offset by the cost to get to those cites as well as the extra travel time (24hrs+ is more than enough for me to start with ^)