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£300-£400 return flights to Australia, New Zealand, Bali, Singapore
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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
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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Singapore 295 GBP
Bali (Denpasar) 319 GBP
Manila 319 GBP
Hong Kong 425 GBP
Bangkok 329 GBP
Kuala Lumpur 329 GBP
Perth 389 GBP
Adelaide 395 GBP
Brisbane 399 GBP
Melbourne 389 GBP
Sydney 399 GBP
Auckland 369 GBP
Christchurch 359 GBP
See here for more details
Above fares valid for travel between 1 September to 9 December 2009 and 16 January to 31 March 2010.
Get in there quick as they're likely to sell out quick!
I keep getting this message
I will keep trying for flights to brisbane any date would be good
'IF ONLY' with next time
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).
I was amazed, as everything else i have been looking at was £750+
London > Melbourne
Sydney > London
Though i did have to pay £125 for exit row seats on all the flights
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...