Looking for a cheap flight to Sydney

Donnie

Ok, I'll tell you what you should do. It's just a shame you didn't know that at the time of your 'Bangkok' thread,

This solution will depend on whather you can get a refund on the one way BA ticket that you purchased earlier.

What she would need to do, is to buy a return ticket from Bangkok with a return to Bangkok on the 15th of December. £520 with Etihad.

If you paid £400 for the earlier O/W, that would mean that the London to Bangkok portion would cost the equivalent of £120.
From there, you purchase a O/W flight from Thailand to OZ for less than £200 and then a one way from OZ to London for £560 for the equivalent of £880.



Of course, that would depend on you getting a full refund from BA.

Where is that 'Flying Pig' emoticon?

thetope

hi again - when i tried the austravel website it showed no availability either, but i got them to phone me and they found flights for me over the phone - i deffo recommend you speak to them directly rather than through the website. couldn't believe it when they told me the price, i thought it was excluding taxes at first!

pjran

Donnie wrote:

Ok, I'll tell you what you should do. It's just a shame you didn't know that at the time of your 'Bangkok' thread,
This solution will depend on whather you can get a refund on the one way BA ticket that you purchased earlier.
What she would need to do, is to buy a return ticket from Bangkok with a return to Bangkok on the 15th of December. £520 with Etihad.
If you paid £400 for the earlier O/W, that would mean that the London to Bangkok portion would cost the equivalent of £120.
From there, you purchase a O/W flight from Thailand to OZ for less than £200 and then a one way from OZ to London for £560 for the equivalent of £880.
Of course, that would depend on you getting a full refund from BA.
Where is that 'Flying Pig' emoticon?

Thanks Donnie.If only my daughter could plan ahead.
The original flight was booked through Flight Centre travelling with Thai air.No refund for not using return ticket.Now booked oneway return with Ba.

pjran

thetope wrote:

hi again - when i tried the austravel website it showed no availability either, but i got them to phone me and they found flights for me over the phone - i deffo recommend you speak to them directly rather than through the website. couldn't believe it when they told me the price, i thought it was excluding taxes at first!

I will ring Austravel tomorrow, thank you so much.

Pj

Donnie

pjran wrote:

Thanks Donnie.If only my daughter could plan ahead.
The original flight was booked through Flight Centre travelling with Thai air.No refund for not using return ticket.Now booked oneway return with Ba.

I was referring to refunding the BA flight and purchasing a two way flight from Bangkok.

Anyway, let's hope Austravel come up with the goods. Let us know the price quoted.

I wonder why thetope didn't tell us...

thetope

Donnie wrote:

I wonder why thetope didn't tell us...

wonder why i didn't tell you what?

pjran

thetope wrote:

wonder why i didn't tell you what?

Thanks for your interest.
I think Donnie wondered why you didn't say how much Austravel quoted you over the phone the other day.
Pj

Donnie

That's right. So, what was the quote?

Here are alternative contact details;

You can contact them via; http://www.austravel.com/contact/email-quote/

They can call you; http://www.austravel.com/contact/callback/

Call them; 01342 330700 or 020 7734 7755

Email them; westend@austravel.com or city@austravel.com

Depends on where you are based.

pjran

Austravel quoted me £830 to £890 including taxes BUT THESE FLIGHTS WERE NOT AVAILABLE
£1027 + taxes for the first available
I'm still looking.

Donnie

Just as I expected...

As I wrote before, the best deals are those I posted before.

My preference is for the Paris connection, as Cathay Pacific are a top airline.
That, at £995 plus £76 for the UK connection with BA. All taxes included.

Otherwise you can enquire as to whether BA will give a full refund.

If they do, the the total cost of your daughter flying BKK - LON - BKK - MEL - LON would be around £1200. Which is around the same as it will cost to fly UK to OZ and back(indirect flight).

Hope you can understand the slightly convoluted explanation.