How far ahead to book BNE-ZQN J fares

[ozflier]

Hi,
My wife and I are flying to Queenstown in August.
From experience, could anyone suggest a good time to buy tickets ?
I know nothing is set in concrete with airlines and also that there are only 12 seats in the front cabin on the direct flights.

 

[Reeldeel]

We go every other year or so. I normally wait for the QF NZ specials. Easier to get cheap CHC and AUK fares than it is ZQN sadly.

 

[ozflier]

Ta for that - the extra leg eg ZQN-AKL adds some time and no J available.

 

[Mattg]

To be honest, I doubt there will be any good sales on the BNE-ZQN route as QF generally charges a premium for this flight. I'd personally look at purchasing a sale fare on the direct BNE-CHC flight, and doing the short hop from CHC to ZQN in Y on Air NZ. BNE-CHC flights in J are currently available for $549 on certain dates.

If you have any Qantas points though, I've found that there's generally plenty of J availability on the BNE-ZQN flight.

 

[Cool Cat Phil]

To be honest, I doubt there will be any good sales on the BNE-ZQN route as QF generally charges a premium for this flight. I'd personally look at purchasing a sale fare on the direct BNE-CHC flight, and doing the short hop from CHC to ZQN in Y on Air NZ. BNE-CHC flights in J are currently available for $549 on certain dates.

If you have any Qantas points though, I've found that there's generally plenty of J availability on the BNE-ZQN flight.

I would second this!

BNE > CHC on QF has some great J specials on at the moment ( although I don't believe they include August 2017).
I've never flown Directly into ZQN from Australia due to the consistently high prices due to the premium nature of the destination.
Unfortunately, I have had to do AKL > ZQN on a seperate sector with JQ to make flying into ZQN affordable.

 

[drsmithy]

Hi,
My wife and I are flying to Queenstown in August.
From experience, could anyone suggest a good time to buy tickets ?
I know nothing is set in concrete with airlines and also that there are only 12 seats in the front cabin on the direct flights.

For the Ekka week ?


I doubt there's any good time to book them. Taking advantage of that public holiday week for some skiing is a pretty common thing.

 

[ozflier]

Ta for all the responses .
The travel days are saturday or sunday and i can't change them as the family are coming also.
Economy fares are currently round $400 odd and business above $900 on QF so may need to try VA or NZ.