Melbourne vs Sydney International Departures - Melbourne much cheaper

[YSSY]

I'm searching for flights to Singapore in January and Rome in April for little family of 4. I had a quick look at different departure options including NTL (we are about 45 mins from NTL) and SYD, but also had a look at MEL and BNE.

The flights from MEL are at least $250 cheaper on average and the BNE ones about $200 cheaper. For a family of 4, $1000 is enough of a saving to consider using qantas points to fly NTL-MEL-NTL. What is laughable is that some of the MEL departures involve connections through SYD...

Supply and demand I guess...

 

[AIRwin]

Does it make any difference with a multi city booking departing MEL and returning to NTL?

 

[YSSY]

Does it make any difference with a multi city booking departing MEL and returning to NTL?

Yes and in a few scenarios that worked out cheaper bizarrely. I can't say I understand the logic behind airfares, but presumedly their is an algorithm which maximises profit somewhere and has decided this is the way to do it!