Cheapest flight to NZ

jenbew

Hi,
I'm emigrating to New Zealand on July 15th and i'm on a budject. I'm open to suggestions of how to get the cheapest flight. Which broker? What route? Any help would be lovely.
Jen

cheekymole

Oh now I'm really jealous.
We have just booked with https://www.evaair.co.uk or it could be "com".

Might be worth a look

Royal Brunei were also on the cheap side

cheekymole

p.s welcome to MSE

and where will you live when you get there?

SamC_4

jenbew wrote:

Hi,
I'm emigrating to New Zealand on July 15th and i'm on a budject. I'm open to suggestions of how to get the cheapest flight. Which broker? What route? Any help would be lovely.
Jen

Emirates and Singapore Airlines were about the cheapest when I was looking earlier this month. The Emirates flight is longer in total but you can have more stopovers. I'm told Emirates will double your baggage allowance to 40kg if you provide them with proof that you're emigrating.

In the end we went with Air New Zealand, which cost about £200 extra for the family, but had a great baggage allowance (64kg per passenger) which is very handy when the rest of your stuff isn't going to turn up for 8 weeks. Sadly they have now dropped the allowance to 46kg per passenger so it isn't such a good deal. If your final destination within NZ is a city other than Auckland or Christchurch they may be cheaper and you get the increased baggage allowance on the internal flights as well if they're on the same ticket.

Get prices from the agent sites like Expedia, eBookers and Airline-network, then go directly to the airline's site and see whether the price is better, as sometimes it is (especially for Emirates). Also try getting a specialist travel agent like Trailfinders to price up the same trip for you as they can sometimes do better.

If you are booking through an agent use an affiliate site like Quidco for the cashback, even at 1% it's worth having.