Is $1900 from SE Asia - Europe cheap?

[LionKing]

I found a one way BKK - Western Europe in January for A$1900, one stop, no lounge access, Class J.
Would that be classified as cheap?
Also OneWorld carrier, Western Europe one stop J to Tokyo for A$2400, is it cheap or there's cheaper?

 

[SYD]

I found a one way BKK - Western Europe in January for A$1900, one stop, no lounge access, Class J.
Would that be classified as cheap?
Also OneWorld carrier, Western Europe one stop J to Tokyo for A$2400, is it cheap or there's cheaper?

Cheap by ex Oz standards. But if you’re after OW, then QR and CX ex CGK are some of the cheapest. We’re in the middle of a trip using CX after we cancelled QR.

Even QR Lite fare ($3-$3.5k return) you’ll still get lounge access at CGK and DOH as WP. CX is closer to $4.5k ret (I Just booked one on Trip.com - slightly cheaper than direct but I could pay in AUD and earned QFF points). CX uses the much better lounge at CGK.

One downside to CX is you might get the regional J seat on CGK<->HkG. This trip it’s full flat on the tour sectors including one Aria. The trip I just booked for next year (CGK-HKG-BCN/MUC-HKG-CGK) has regional config on both the short hops..hopefully that changes (it’s months away).

 

[esseeeayeenn]

Cheap by ex Oz standards. But if you’re after OW, then QR and CX ex CGK are some of the cheapest. We’re in the middle of a trip using CX after we cancelled QR.

Even QR Lite fare ($3-$3.5k return) you’ll still get lounge access at CGK and DOH as WP. CX is closer to $4.5k ret (I Just booked one on Trip.com - slightly cheaper than direct but I could pay in AUD and earned QFF points). CX uses the much better lounge at CGK.

One downside to CX is you might get the regional J seat on CGK<->HkG. This trip it’s full flat on the tour sectors including one Aria. The trip I just booked for next year (CGK-HKG-BCN/MUC-HKG-CGK) has regional config on both the short hops..hopefully that changes (it’s months away).

Have you had to do yur own flight change at CGK?
Do you need to pay any fee or have the health declaration to leave airside to collect bags and check in again?

 

[SYD]

Have you had to do yur own flight change at CGK?

Yes, currently on our fourth trip post COVID flying via CGK. QF J (return) on points Oz-CGK. We normally o/n at CGK. Airport hotels are cheap and even with the eVOA, it’s still half the price of J ex east coast.

This trip, because we wanted to cancel QR and rebook CX, it was cheapest to do a same day transfer at CGK on the way home. Which we’re happy take that risk but wouldn’t on the way out.

Do you need to pay any fee or have the health declaration to leave airside to collect bags and check in again?

Yes, you need to do whatever’s in play at the time of transit. Health declaration seems to have dropped off but the Customs and eVOA can all be done together within 3 days out.

We’ll find out soon if CX will check thru our luggage on seperate tix, otherwise we’ll just do all the declaration / eVOA online in the lounge.

Next year we’re o/n’ing again. The Anara (attached to CGK landslide) is very convenient when arriving from SYD/MEL on QF and departing on the early arvo CX/QR flights. For us, coming home on QF, it’s a late’ish departure so we’re trying the Mercure PIK (that’ll have more options for things to do filling in time).

Most airlines seem to have a strict 3hr before check-in opening time. Fortunately QF has early checkin for elites.

No idea what the repositioning options ex PER are like.

 

[esseeeayeenn]

No idea what the repositioning options ex PER are like.

In a word, awful.
The only non-stop flight PER-CGK is Batik (OD).
But at least its only 4 hours!
And the whole round trip in J will cost well under $5,000.
With Q-suites DOH-CDG.
But of course the "others" lounge in DOH.

 

[SYD]

In a word, awful.
The only non-stop flight PER-CGK is Batik (OD).
But at least its only 4 hours!
And the whole round trip in J will cost well under $5,000.
With Q-suites DOH-CDG.
But of course the "others" lounge in DOH.

The QR tix we cancelled was “Classic” over and back (into HEL and out of MAD*) - so full lounge access. It’s kinda random when / where they spring the “Lite” fares.

They possibly weren’t “Lite” because both “short” sectors were codeshares (operated by AY and IB). QR metal ex MAD at exactly the same time was more $$. Ironically with all the bombs flying, IB pulled out, so switched to QR metal and then AY pulled out and switched to QR metal but by then we could cancel for free.

 

[SYD]

In a word, awful.
The only non-stop flight PER-CGK is Batik (OD).
But at least its only 4 hours!

DPS can work also. I haven’t checked recently since it’s harder to get ex SYD but our first trip via CGK was actually open jaw CGK-Euro-DPS via HKG. We spent a few nights in Bali on the way home and took JQ to PER (it wasn’t awful) and QF J to SYD.

 

[MEL_Traveller]

I found a one way BKK - Western Europe in January for A$1900, one stop, no lounge access, Class J.
Would that be classified as cheap?
Also OneWorld carrier, Western Europe one stop J to Tokyo for A$2400, is it cheap or there's cheaper?

You haven’t disclosed the airline, so it’s not really possible to tell if it’s ‘cheap’.

At the $1900 price you have some of the ‘stan’ airlines, and not all of them offer flat beds… some are just 2+2 recliners on narrow body planes. You also have the likes of Indigo in that range (= not a bargain because no flat beds).