Am I crazy? Route options.

[BD1959]

• Do I utilise International Transfers so no need to go through immigration in AKL or SIN?

FYI: SIN terminals are mixed arrivals/departure passengers - arrive at your xPER gate, walk straight to the Lounge, then straight to your BNE gate. Security checks as you enter the BNE gate lounge.

PER-SIN-BNE would be my choice.

Regards,

BD

 

[marki]

Steve.1702 your options are eye opening ! Personally I would go via Sin but my next trip to Perth from Mel is certainly going to take me thru Asia. Via Sydney, then Brisbane.

 

[AustraliaPoochie]

For AKL, if you are doing an international transit, you don't have to go through NZ immigration, just international transit security.
Arrivals are one level down, under departures.
Some times during the year, there is a several days a week (not daily) QF flights (QF111) direct from PER - AKL, the only Au - NZ flight done by QF in the 330. Dep PER 20.30 arr AKL 8.30 next day.
As I mentioned, do it another time, when you don't need to be BNE for that important occasion.

 

[JessicaTam]

There is a very slight probability, only slight, that something might happen to that EK metal 380 you desire AKL - BNE, or the preceeding MEL/SYD - AKL.
That 380 has to come all the way from DXB, and if that one is late into MEL/SYD, then it will be late into AKL, and chance of you missing the EK flight from AKL - BNE.
If you really must be in BNE for a certain meeting, work or otherwise, or thing, I would not consider AKL at this stage.
For anything Au to NZ, I would only do it EK metal with a QF flight number in F.
Even if only SYD - CHC in F on the 777.

Flight delays can occur with any airline and any aircraft, so I don't know why AKL-BNE should come in for special treatment.

 

[angusburns]

PER - MEL - HHK - SYD - BNE - PER - how does someone book such a ticket?

I just tried to make a multi-city booking with those legs on the Qantas website but would not do it for me...

Thanks!

 

[Stevo.1702]

PER - MEL - HHK - SYD - BNE - PER - how does someone book such a ticket?

I just tried to make a multi-city booking with those legs on the Qantas website but would not do it for me...

Thanks!

I searched:

PER - HKG 07 Apr - can only fly on the red-eye
HKG - BNE 08 Apr - selected the 747 to Syd
BNE - PER 12 Apr - direct

This resulted in the Mel and Syd connections.

When I looked last is was just a little shy of $1900. I have a colleague who foolishly booked the red-eye Perth to Brisbane the Thursday before Easter and paid $1800 ONE WAY!!! So for the SC/$$ earn this isn't a bad option to get somewhere I need to be in a non-time critical manner.

 

[PeteMac007]

If you keep an eye on business class specials to NZ, you may pick up some routings that give you 2-3 transfers. I saw one a few months a go that went SYD to WLG, but gave a routing SYD - MEL - AKL - WLG. Ticket was about $1300'sh in business class. bucket load of status points...

If you're looking for cheap status points, fiji to LAX on FJ is always a good bargain in Z class

 

[angusburns]

So you booked three separate tickets, total cost of $1,900.

When you said "The sum of the parts is very much greater than the sum of the whole." I assumed that you were meaning that all the legs were on one ticket somehow, and if you had booked the three flights separately, then the cost would be much greater than a single ticket - have I got it right now?

Thanks!

 

[Stevo.1702]

So you booked three separate tickets, total cost of $1,900.

When you said "The sum of the parts is very much greater than the sum of the whole." I assumed that you were meaning that all the legs were on one ticket somehow, and if you had booked the three flights separately, then the cost would be much greater than a single ticket - have I got it right now?

Thanks!

Sorry, your original think was correct. They are all on one ticket.

The part where I described three different searches was the way I looked using a Multi-city booking. The result was one ticket with three stages/legs.

Hope that helped.

 

[angusburns]

Thank you for the clarification, I will try to use the Qantas multi-city booking engine again and see what it gives me - obviously I need the practice!

 

[AustraliaPoochie]

AKL - WLG will be on JQ NZ domestic where I believe there is no J service.

 

[Princess Fiona]

AKL - WLG will be on JQ NZ domestic where I believe there is no J service.

Or it could also be on NZ metal as the QF website often sells NZ domestic along with international tickets.
In any case you are correct, there is no J status credits for AKL-WLG and in the case of NZ flight no points either.