Flights to Oz & NZ

em_z

Hoping someone can give me some advice about flights. We're planning on going to sydney, Melbourne then Auckland next December for 4 weeks. I've seen flights with qantas for £1600 each. Emirates flights aren't released for another 3 weeks. Is it worth waiting until I see the price of these or book now with qantas? I'm reasonably happy with the qantas price but wondering whether Emirates might be cheaper when they are finally released. Would appreciate some advice on what to do. Scared if I wait for Emirates, I'll miss the ones with qantas, or if I book with quantas, Emirates will be much cheaper, aagghh! Thanks!

richardw

How much are the Cathay Pacific and Singapore Airlines flights from Manchester?

Fruit_and_Nut_Case

I'm doing something similar (Melbourne-Auckland-Sydney-Bangkok-Hong Kong) next April/May and have been watching the Emirates prices going up and down for the past several months. I'm splurging out for First Class (not very MSE) and missed my chance when the price was £4900 last autumn, going up to £6900 for a while before I finally booked at £5300. One leg is a codeshare with Qantas, chosen because it arrives at a civilised time.

I suspect that the Emirates prices will be bobbing up and down a few times before you have to commit. If it were me, I'd wait and see what they offer.

em_z

richardw wrote: »

How much are the Cathay Pacific and Singapore Airlines flights from Manchester?

Cathay weren't released when I looked and I couldn't figure out multi stop on Singapore's mobile site. Will look on desktop version though.

Just checked these and neither airline will search for my itinery.

em_z

Fruit_and_Nut_Case wrote: »

I'm doing something similar (Melbourne-Auckland-Sydney-Bangkok-Hong Kong) next April/May and have been watching the Emirates prices going up and down for the past several months. I'm splurging out for First Class (not very MSE) and missed my chance when the price was £4900 last autumn, going up to £6900 for a while before I finally booked at £5300. One leg is a codeshare with Qantas, chosen because it arrives at a civilised time.

I suspect that the Emirates prices will be bobbing up and down a few times before you have to commit. If it were me, I'd wait and see what they offer.

Thanks, good to know they go down as well as up!

em_z

This trip doesn't seem particularly difficult or complicated, but I'm having difficulty with any other airlines. For example British airways quoted £17,000 each & other airlines won't even quote for it. It seems I'm limited to emirates or Qantas. Grrrr!

zagfles

Might be worth a trip to, or phoning, Trailfinders. Even if you don't end up booking with them it'll give you some ideas on routing/airlines. They specialise in this sort of long haul trip.

DTDfanBoy

If you remove the SYD-MLB leg you'll get a lot more options, searching with a domestic route involved is limiting the code share options

em_z

Ah, will try that now. Could book an internal flight with Jetstart for the Syd-Mel leg. Thanks!

richardw

Look for an open jaw multi stop ticket man-syd/Mel and akl-man.

em_z

Thanks. Can you Explain what an open jaw ticket is please?