Cocos Keeling and Christmas

[waltervp]

A friend of mine has just moved to Cocos Keeling Island and I want to visit! I heard you can fly from Perth and/or Singapore and like to visit both those locations. Has anyone got any suggestions on points or dollar or RTW or any other good way to visit Cocos Island? Although I am in Devonport (Tassie), I'd happily fly from Melbourne for instance. HELP!

 

[oz_mark]

YOur basic options for getting to Cocos Keeling are from Perth on Virgin Blue. Virgin Blue also operate a service between Christmas Island and Cocos Keeling.

You can also get to Christmas Island from KUL on an MH operated service, but sold as Christmas Island Air. I think the SIN service has ceased operation.

Having said all that, the DJ flights are not cheap, and I am not sure that redemptions on points would come at a sensible price.

 

[V1213]

There are no cheap options to XCH or CCK from anywhere. Virgin's retail price is $465 each way from PER and it never appears to go on sale.
The KUL-XCH flights on Christmas Island Air are $545 each way for a shorter flight so they're no good either.

Ah, the beauty of subsidised, long and extremely thin lifeline routes.
I guess the best value is to fly DJ and earn some Velocity points, or redeem Velocity points for the flights if you have them.

At least you'll get free accommodation!