Break Journey to NZ - Too expensive?

FunTime

Blue264 wrote: »

Have you called the airlines to make the enquiry?
Are you a travel consultant?
Are you an airline ticketing expert?

Honest questions and I hope you can give an honest answer please. I just want to clarify if you have genuine information that you can share with the OP.

No
No
Yes

Now what will you do with that information?

FunTime

My personal recommendation.

richardw

FunTime wrote: »

... Expect £900 with normal stopover timing....

For a flight time of approximately48.5 hours, that's less than £19 per hour flight time. Bargain.

Blue264

FunTime wrote: »

No
No
Yes

Now what will you do with that information?

Cool.

What GDS do you use?
As you have access at the moment, could you please cut and paste a GDS itinerary for the Emirates and NZ options that would allow one or two breaks to the trip please? I'm sure it would be a great help to the OP.

FunTime

In this case, book direct with the airline:

FunTime

Blue264 wrote: »

Cool.

What GDS do you use?
As you have access at the moment, could you please cut and paste a GDS itinerary for the Emirates and NZ options that would allow one or two breaks to the trip please? I'm sure it would be a great help to the OP.

Instead of wasting our time, why don't you post an appropriate itinerary together with the pricing?

So far, I am the only one, posting itinerary replete with prices.

Calling the airline is amongst some of the most useless advice that I have seen posted here....and I've seen a lot.

Since you know the dates and requirements, why don't you come up with some sample itinerary replete with pricing?

I'm sure that you will not. Instead I expect some more wordy nonsense. So what use you being a travel expert?

richardw

FunTime wrote: »

.....Calling the airline is amongst some of the most useless advice that I have seen posted here....and I've seen a lot...

It isn't. The most useless advice is flying in economy for hours on narrow seat aircraft.

Blue264

I'm not in work at the moment. I'm at home and don't have Gal access on my home pc. Plus, any GDS results I could give would likely be skewed by the IP being outside of the point of origin country, and I'm not able to emulate into the IP of another country on my home pc.

FunTime

richardw wrote: »

It isn't. The most useless advice is flying in economy for hours on narrow seat aircraft.

Malaysia Airlines has narrow seats? Most definitely not. Casting baseless assertions. Pathetic!

China Eastern flies A330-200, not 'narrow seat 787' as you love banging on about.

China Eastern from London is my recommendation on price.
Malaysia Airlines from London is my recommendation overall.

If you have any specific criticisms on either of those two recommendations, post away.

Do you have even a single viable option to proffer? I'm guessing no.

FunTime

Blue264 wrote: »

I'm not in work at the moment. I'm at home and don't have Gal access on my home pc. Plus, any GDS results I could give would likely be skewed by the IP being outside of the point of origin country, and I'm not able to emulate into the IP of another country on my home pc.

So...as expected. No use whatsoever. It is very easy to emulate an IP. If you give me the details, I will endeavour to find a solution for you.
That way you can use your years of experience to find them a better deal than I have posted.

Should you be baiting someone who is consistently posting the best deals available, when you have nothing to offer yourself? I think it would be better for you to support, rather than to try to play worthless games.