Emirates: Mel - Kul $594 return

[whoistheg]

Emirates Inaugural Sale: From Melbourne to Kuala Lumpur Return from $593.81 (Inc Taxes)

Emirates Inaugural Sale: From Melbourne to Kuala Lumpur Return from $593.81 (Inc Taxes) - OzBargain

Awful flight time from Mel

03:10 depart mel

but pretty good price

Not sure when it ends but i put dates in for March as fare was there

Seem like EK have only loaded fares until end of March, I cannot find
anything for April

 

[dajop]

Emirates Inaugural Sale: From Melbourne to Kuala Lumpur Return from $593.81 (Inc Taxes)

Emirates Inaugural Sale: From Melbourne to Kuala Lumpur Return from $593.81 (Inc Taxes) - OzBargain

Awful flight time from Mel

Can open jaw for $609 AUD MEL-SIN/KUL-MEL add on a cheap fare SIN-KUL on Air Asia/Jetstar etc and gives much better flight times - both flights avoid (fully) overnight flights. (ie both flights are evening flights)

 

[Sprucegoose]

Emirates Inaugural Sale: From Melbourne to Kuala Lumpur Return from $593.81 (Inc Taxes)

Emirates Inaugural Sale: From Melbourne to Kuala Lumpur Return from $593.81 (Inc Taxes) - OzBargain

I would have trouble flying with [them] out of Mel after the last potential disaster when they all got the computerised weight wrong.

I have flown a number of sectors with them over the last few years and not that impressed. [redacted]irrelevant


MH have some very good specials going as well.

Spruce

 

[whoistheg]

Sprucegoose

100% Agree. We did a Mel - Sin last easter we did not get a drink until after
the dinner service, Not even a drink with the meal !!

I dont think i would fly them again just letting people who would know

 

[Dave Noble]

Conversely I find Emirates a very good airline and choose them ahead of airlines such as QF/BA and have nicer lounges generally too imo

Dave

 

[dajop]

Conversely I find Emirates a very good airline and choose them ahead of airlines such as QF/BA and have nicer lounges generally too imo

Dave

+1. I agree. Have taken them three times (return) this year between MEL & SIN , my partner the same (at difft times). If we had been precious about taking them we would have either had to pay an extra $100 for each return and fly Jetstar via DRW or an extra $300 to fly QF, or extra $400 to fly SQ. And between us probably would have then missed out on three upgrades EK gave us (me 1, my partner 2).

I find the crew varies in the level of service they provide, depending on their origin. The variation is no worse, in factor probably less than experienced on QF (at least in the Y cabin) A comment was made above that some cultures were never destined to serve .. this belies a lack of understanding of EK crewing, as their crew often feels like a mini-UN. On my various flights it has included people from Korea, Japan, South Africa, Morocco, Russia, UK, Kenya, Philippines, Indonesia, Australia, Eastern Europe, Germany etc, oh and even the UAE(obviously not all in the one flight). Some are not that terrific, others (and I bet you can guess their origins) really shine.

 

[cmon0005]

$3000 return J fares as well...

pity they are not part of OW.

 

[Travel Guru]

Emirates Inaugural Sale: From Melbourne to Kuala Lumpur Return from $593.81 (Inc Taxes)

Emirates Inaugural Sale: From Melbourne to Kuala Lumpur Return from $593.81 (Inc Taxes) - OzBargain

Awful flight time from Mel

03:10 depart mel

but pretty good price

Not sure when it ends but i put dates in for March as fare was there

Seem like EK have only loaded fares until end of March, I cannot find
anything for April

Fare is valid for travel 2 Feb - 30 November 2010 and is on sale to 8 March 2010.

Based in L class for Economy, C for Biz and A for First.

TG

 

[cazoraz]

Fare is valid for travel 2 Feb - 30 November 2010 and is on sale to 8 March 2010.

Based in L class for Economy, C for Biz and A for First.

TG

How do you actually book flights after March since the Emirates site only shows these flights up til end of March? DO you have to go through an agent or are we just waiting for Emirates to update their website?

Cheers
Caz

 

[madirish]

Greetings Boys and Girls,Fares for July keep on changing day to day on this new route.Sometimes cheap ,sometimes nearly full price,This is the same when I ring the call center.Most websites go up and down with them but lastminute had the $600 sub fares this morning when everyone else,including Emirates was $750+ Can anyone explain this and the daily movements up and down? What should loads be like on this route in the first two weeks in July ? Thanks in advance fellow travelers

 

[Mal]

Fares for July keep on changing day to day on this new route.Sometimes cheap ,sometimes nearly full price,This is the same when I ring the call center.Most websites go up and down with them but lastminute had the $600 sub fares this morning when everyone else,including Emirates was $750+ Can anyone explain this and the daily movements up and down? What should loads be like on this route in the first two weeks in July ? Thanks in advance fellow travelers

Sometimes when airlines have sale tickets, they trickle the tickets into the market place. So the best analogy is a can of baked beans on special at the supermarket. Sometimes you walk past and the space is empty - but that's only because other customers have taken all of the ones there and the staff haven't yet refilled the shelf space.

Why Lastminute still was showing the cheaper price could be caused by a couple of things. The most likely is that the website hadn't updated the availability of cheap fares correctly, and had you gone through the booking process it would fail towards the end. The other possibility is that Lastminute can access certain fares that other sites can't access, but I don't think that is particularly likely in this case.

 

[JohnK]

Fare is valid for travel 2 Feb - 30 November 2010 and is on sale to 8 March 2010.

Based in L class for Economy, C for Biz and A for First.

How do you actually book flights after March since the Emirates site only shows these flights up til end of March? DO you have to go through an agent or are we just waiting for Emirates to update their website?

Travel Guru is a travel agent....

 

[madirish]

Thanks Mal,that all makes perfect sense.Have picked the July 1 -14 period for our trip.Time off work organised etc,Any advice on loads then,should I change my time off? Thanks again