The Australian disease - an example
As a pedantic exercise, after reading a Pointhacks article on 'what are your points worth?' I decided to have a look at the cost (if paying cash) for the SuiteSaver redemptions.
One way:
- CDG/SYD came out as AUD 6,604.25
- SYD/CDG blew out as AUD 8,670.85
near enough to $2,000 more expensive to fly out of Australia.
Curiosity got the best of me so I priced up the returns for good measure:
- CDG/SYD = AUD 11,112.59
- SYD/CDG = AUD 13,259.20
What a surprise - $2,100 more expensive.
Now since the departure taxes, flying times, labour costs, fuel costs etc should be close enough to identical -
seems like out & out discrimination.
Time for the new Fed Govt to adopt measures to stamp out this "Anti-Australia" tax imposed on its citizens!
### Moral of the story - plan your future flights as far ahead as possible and begin the first trip as a one-way el-cheapo and all flights after that as overseas to Aust returns (ideally).
BTW on the value of those points...
If you had
the Krisflyer points already, then on the above figures and 'cash fees' charged, it worked out as
5.39 cents per point (CDG/SYD ow)
If you had to transfer
VFF points to get the Krisflyer points, then
3.99 cents per point.