Long haul flight stopover tips

SW17

kerrin wrote: »

Yay, tax evasion! You ought to also mention the terrible risks involved when your second airline cares nothing about the first airline's flights being delayed or cancelled, and you end up stranded and/or out of pocket.

You clearly have no idea what tax evasion is. It is a criminal offence. Booking an indirect airline ticket is not illegal. Tax evasion would be not paying tax you are legally obliged to pay. On an indirect ticket you pay the tax due on the tickets booked. That tax happens to be lower. No tax evasion. Tax avoidance perhaps, suggest you spend some quality time googling the difference.

Travelling from Manchester to Buenos Aires via Frankfurt on Lufthansa (for example) presents no risks in terms of the first sector having problems, you would be protected.

If you use a routing that requires a positioning flight to start it (such as flying to Oslo to start a trip to the USA), there are some risks, but to call them terrible is over dramatic. A level of contingency planning is required, but people are doing this every day successfully and saving large amounts of money - which is, after all, what this site is about.

blindman

duchy wrote: »

It does depend on the route but so long as it's a nice place and you build in some time - it can work well.

I actually booked one yesterday to California combination of BA and AA flights all the way starting in Scandanavia - who needs charters or dodgy airlines when California in August is under £280 return

That's certainly impressive.:cool:

Is this with BA's "sale" fares?

Care to share the routing? I have to organise a family of 8 to California - In August-next year-so am looking for ideas.

I'm relatively clued up about ITA MAtirx.Flyertalk and how best to use Avios :cool:

richardw

SW17 wrote: »

..... in some cases business class to Australia....

I need to get to Perth next year, any suggestions of a good starting point in Europe ?

SW17

richardw wrote: »

I need to get to Perth next year, any suggestions of a good starting point in Europe ?

On BA the usual suggested starting point for low fares to Australia is Oslo, though some have also found good fares from Dublin. However, Perth isn't always so great for using BA, might also be worth checking out Qatar Airways (also from Oslo, maybe Amsterdam or Frankfurt too), and also Emirates, though not sure of best origin airport for them.

NiftyDigits

richardw wrote: »

I need to get to Perth next year, any suggestions of a good starting point in Europe ?

Try Qatar Airways via AMS returning to London. £475 random dates in Feb next year. Similar price to return to Edinburgh if you're from Scotland

Quickblood

I'd like to visit Vegas as a lone traveller and want to do it as cheaply as possible but have no idea where to begin. I don't mind changing flights or doing these open-jaw flights, my only criteria is that it has to be dirt cheap.

Are you chaps figuring this out for yourselves or is there a tool to help locate these flights?

NiftyDigits

Quickblood wrote: »

I'd like to visit Vegas as a lone traveller and want to do it as cheaply as possible but have no idea where to begin. I don't mind changing flights or doing these open-jaw flights, my only criteria is that it has to be dirt cheap.

Are you chaps figuring this out for yourselves or is there a tool to help locate these flights?

DIY. Do you have dates?

richardw

SW17 wrote: »

On BA the usual suggested starting point for low fares to Australia is Oslo, though some have also found good fares from Dublin. However, Perth isn't always so great for using BA, might also be worth checking out Qatar Airways (also from Oslo, maybe Amsterdam or Frankfurt too), and also Emirates, though not sure of best origin airport for them.

OSL was the cheapest overall with BA, second Etihad from DUB. But I didn't find a business class fare for less than £2k pp, demand seems to be pretty good.

NiftyDigits

richardw wrote: »

OSL was the cheapest overall with BA, second Etihad from DUB. But I didn't find a business class fare for less than £2k pp, demand seems to be pretty good.

There are far less Business Class seats......

blindman

Quickblood wrote: »

I'd like to visit Vegas as a lone traveller and want to do it as cheaply as possible but have no idea where to begin. I don't mind changing flights or doing these open-jaw flights, my only criteria is that it has to be dirt cheap.

Are you chaps figuring this out for yourselves or is there a tool to help locate these flights?

Look\ask in the Vegas Thread :cool: