Article: Why I Flew Jetstar to the AFF Melbourne Gathering

[AFF Editor]

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Why I Flew Jetstar to the AFF Melbourne Gathering is an article written by the AFF editorial team:

Why I Flew Jetstar to the AFF Melbourne Gathering

Given a choice of Qantas, Virgin Australia or Jetstar, I chose to fly the budget carrier from Canberra to Melbourne for last weekend's AFF gathering. No, I'm not crazy... here's why.

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[eastwest101]

With Federal Parliament sitting in Canberra at the moment, I expect the high prices that you saw with Qantas and Virgin would be explicable by a factor of people spending other people's money to travel between MEL-CBR in these few days, so anyone who would be spending their own money would have considered and possibly booked the Jetstar flight - hence why your flight had a load factor of 100%

 

[Happy Dude]

"one of my fellow Jetstar passengers was very rude to me for no particular reason"

Surely related to seeing your knees. Frightening.

 

[Cossie]

Surprisingly good, left early, arrived early, bag was one of the first out, more than happy, it's our first Jetstar fight for a very long time, I can see more happening.

When I booked this the only available Qantas flights that suited us were on Q400's and $900 each, this flight was under $300 each!

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Same as our own experience the next day.

The flight was meant to be 100% full, but the 3 seats in row 2 in front of us were empty. I tried to be clever and select the window and aisle seat hoping the middle would remain free, not to be, so I moved into the middle seat.