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£300-£400 return flights to Australia, New Zealand, Bali, Singapore
15 June 2009
What's the deal?
Singapore Airlines is running a seat sale from London, with return flights to Melbourne for £389 and Sydney and Brisbane £399, including most taxes & charges (the next cheapest is c. £600). There’re also flights to New Zealand for an astonishing £359, as well as Singapore £295 and Bali £319 ALL-IN! This is cheapest in MoneySaving Towers' memory!
The deal's on flights departing from London Heathrow between 1 September to 09 December 09 and 16 January to 31 March 2010 - which is SUMMER time down under. There is still good availability at the moment, but the sale ends 30 June, so you'll have to be quick.
How to find 'em
The flights are available direct through Singapore Airlines, but for a more advanced search you can use screenscraper Kayak*. Enter your trip details and it’ll zip them to scores of normal airlines, including Qantas, to find the cheapest.
If you don’t mind when you fly, there’s a quick way to get an idea which dates are available. On the Kayak homepage, enter London to Sydney (or the whichever destination you're looking for).
A box of ‘best fares’ should then appear on the right hand side. If you flick through the months, it should be clear which dates have £399 flights. Just search for a flight leaving on that date, and hopefully the cheap fare will still be available.
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11am Wed. Quick update from Martin
As always when we do flight sale posts, a few people don't find a flight and write in the discussion below "it's a con." Well its not a con, if it was we wouldn't list it.
There are many flights available at these prices ALL-IN. We don't just rely on sale literature we diligently check the prices through and find examples of our own before we'd ever give a deal this much prominence. In fact one antipodean member of the MSE Team has booked a flight home for all his family at this price - and you'll see many people who've successfully bagged a bargain below.
So if you can't find one, or the price inc taxes & charges is much higher, don't assume its a con, just the sales flights have gone from that date. In which case try another date rate (always remembering the sale is only on from 1/9 to 9/12 this year and 16/1 to 31/3 in 2010
Don't assume it’s automatically cheapest though
Always compare it to the results from the Cheap & Free Flights guide
This deal was originally spotted by MoneySaver marble, and this post was inserted to give everyone the full lowdown. Thanks for the fantastic find!
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Last edited by MSE Martin; 17-06-2009 at 10:58 AM..
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Just listening to the BBC Travel correspondent talking about this deal. Cheaper from London to Christchurch, South Island, New Zealand than a first class, open train fare from London to Manchester.
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Yeah, looks like the site is quite bogged down at the moment. I guess the fact that the it's been on the BBC and various internet sites means it's getting a fair bit of attention.
If you keep hitting the button on the page you are on ('Continue' or whatever), you get through eventually (took about 10 hits per page for me).
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The same prices have been made available to Travel companies. If you are worried about seats going fast as they will do, pick up the phone and speak to a good travel company...
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I said there's got to be some con, I've only just got home - so i'm checking it out as I type...
So far - for 2 adults and our baby : london > perth = £846 (cheap fares... but high tax) - are there any hiden fee's?! "checking in fee" lugage etc etc..... thats when the price starts to creap up!!
I said there's got to be some con, I've only just got home - so i'm checking it out as I type...
So far - for 2 adults and our baby : london > perth = £846 (cheap fares... but high tax) - are there any hiden fee's?! "checking in fee" lugage etc etc..... thats when the price starts to creap up!!
You've obviously not flown Singapore Airlines before!
No hidden extras, free meals (I had an amazing steak last month on them), free booze, best entertainment system in the sky (which has iPod docking system, a control pad with Qwerty keypad, Microsoft Office if you want to work..), sexy hostesses (of both sexes!) and you get to fly the A380.
You won't be getting a better deal! Except if you combine it with their Singapore Stopover package where you could bag yourself a night in Singapore with transfers for £1 each...
Hi, Martin’s asked me to post this in these circumstances: I’ve asked Board Guides to move threads if they’ll receive a better response elsewhere(please see this rule) so this post/thread has been moved to another board, where it should get more replies. If you have any questions about this policy please email abuse@moneysavingexpert.com.
Firstly I moved it to the correct board as it was posted on the wrong one. Does that explain why I moved it?
Secondly it would have taken you the same amount of time to pm me that this deal has already being posted as it did to type your comment above. I'm a volunteer. I have a job, I have real life going on. I don't read every post/thread. So please excuse me for not realising this has already being posted.
Pls be nice to all MoneySavers. There's no such thing as a stupid question, and even if you disagree courtesy helps. Take care over copyright. Use excerpts and links rather than copying long text. This site asserts copyright on all comments posted on the board.
Pls be nice to all MoneySavers. There's no such thing as a stupid question, and even if you disagree courtesy helps.
£300-£400 return flights to Australia, New Zealand, Bali, Singapore
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