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Help please with stopover on way to Oz

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  • KayJay
    KayJay Posts: 95 Forumite
    Thanks everyone. I do think it will be Singapore we go for, just for a few days. Seeing Raffles and the Zoo should be good. We also want to see Sydney so probably will just get a flight from there to Tasmania after a few days there too.
  • mgdavid
    mgdavid Posts: 6,710 Forumite
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    you might want to go to the Tiger Balm Garden in Singapore too.
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  • eDicky
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    ibizafan wrote: »
    However, next time I go, as I live in the Midlands, I might try Etihad from Birmingham, although the thought of the very long final flight puts me off a bit.
    From my one experience with Etihad, the big let-down is transiting in Abu Dhabi airport, overcrowded, sweaty and uncomfortable (the opposite of Dubai / Emirates). Unless they have built a new one in the last couple of years.
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  • richardw
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    Btw Singapore Airlines fly from MAN if that is more convenient than LHR.
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  • agrinnall
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    You might want to consider booking flights from a European airport (Amsterdam/Paris/Frankfurt/possibly Dublin) so that you're not paying long haul rates of UK APD, and book cheap flights from Birmingham to that airport separately.
  • richardw
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    edited 31 March 2015 at 3:37PM
    agrinnall wrote: »
    You might want to consider booking flights from a European airport (Amsterdam/Paris/Frankfurt/possibly Dublin) so that you're not paying long haul rates of UK APD, and book cheap flights from Birmingham to that airport separately.

    Sounds risky. How should they manage the risk?
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  • davetrousers
    davetrousers Posts: 5,862 Forumite
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    You might want to consider flying the "wrong way" with Air New Zealand, and having a stopover in Los Angeles.
    .....

  • agrinnall
    agrinnall Posts: 23,344 Forumite
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    richardw wrote: »
    Sounds risky. How should they many the risk?

    Assuming 'many' should really be 'manage', make sure there's a long enough gap between arrival and departure.
  • richardw
    richardw Posts: 19,459 Forumite
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    agrinnall wrote: »
    ....make sure there's a long enough gap between arrival and departure.

    It's December, so how long is a long enough gap?
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  • silvercar
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    richardw wrote: »
    It's December, so how long is a long enough gap?

    Night before.

    Another alternative is to go via South Africa. Due to the curvature of the earth it is only one hour more in flying time.
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