Hello everyone.
Long time reader, but this is my first post, so please be kind! I'd like to ask you good people for some advice;
I'm looking for some flights and was wondering if anyone would have any ideas / suggestions as I have a slightly unusual (although not that crazy) itinerary.
I need flights from;
London > Sydney (on or around 28th March)
Sydney > Okinawa (Japan) (on or around 11th April)
Okinawa > London (on or around 24th April)
Ideally I'd prefer to do this all as one trip (booked together with one airline / code shares rather than with multiple airlines). Sadly price is a key factor. Internet search engines (expedia / kayak / skyscanner et al) seem to be offering me itineraries of around £2200. I can do LHD>SYD>LHR and LHR>OKA>LHR for around £1800, but this seems a little redundant.
After many hours on-line I have put together a LHR>SYD (Quantas) SYD>HKG (Quantas) HKG>OKA OKA>HGK (Hong Kong Express - anyone heard of them?) HKG>LHR for a very reasonable £1350 (£950 Quantas and £400 HK Express approximately). This is good, but not perfect as the LHR>SYD leg changes at Melbourne (overnight change between Melbourne's two airports).
Can any of you celver people suggest a way of doing this trip for a lower price or nmore importantly with one airline? I think the
£1300 - £1500 range is a fair enough price for the distance and number of flights I intend to take, but I would really like to do this with
one carrier / code share. Do any of the Asian (JAL? ANA? Asiana?) carriers offer multi trip itinaries?
Any help and advice that anyone can give would be more than appreciated.
Cheers Ladies & Gents
-i79
i79,
Welcome onboard
You have plenty of options with the longer sectors, but the middle sectors are your likely stumbling block as they'll be with local carriers mainly. I was going to suggest Qantas, Cathay Pacific, BA or Singapore Airlines. You might want to look at Star Alliance affiliated airlines so you can use code share flights; eg Singapore / ANA. There's also One World affiliated airlines; BA, Qantas, JAL, Cathay Pacific that might give you greater flexibility. One world have quite a good itinery planner. Try your flight itinery with those and see if that fits in with what you're looking for.
Darren
Welcome onboard
You have plenty of options with the longer sectors, but the middle sectors are your likely stumbling block as they'll be with local carriers mainly. I was going to suggest Qantas, Cathay Pacific, BA or Singapore Airlines. You might want to look at Star Alliance affiliated airlines so you can use code share flights; eg Singapore / ANA. There's also One World affiliated airlines; BA, Qantas, JAL, Cathay Pacific that might give you greater flexibility. One world have quite a good itinery planner. Try your flight itinery with those and see if that fits in with what you're looking for.
Darren
Go to a travel agent who specialises in OZ and worldwide fares.
Travelmood or Austravel are two of the biggest they will sort out all the legwork(although it sounds like you've done most of it already) and it will usually come to less than what you found, they will sort out an OZ visa for you for around £20.00 and include it in the final price.
Travelmood or Austravel are two of the biggest they will sort out all the legwork(although it sounds like you've done most of it already) and it will usually come to less than what you found, they will sort out an OZ visa for you for around £20.00 and include it in the final price.
Thanks for the advice Guys!
As suggested above we've gone ahead and contacted an agent who seems to be able to get some much more attractive fares than we were able to find on-line. It just goes to show that self booking online isn't always the cheapest option.
-i79
As suggested above we've gone ahead and contacted an agent who seems to be able to get some much more attractive fares than we were able to find on-line. It just goes to show that self booking online isn't always the cheapest option.
-i79
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