Suggestions for intra-EU (HAM to AYT)

[hossein_au]

Hi there,
I am looking for flights from Hamburg to Antalya in April for 3 people. I have been using various online tools over the past couple of days (ITA, Google flights, etc), but I cannot find any flights with reasonable costs.

Any suggestion on using points? I have a reasonable stash of QF, VA, SQ and AA points, and just over about 40,000 Avios points.

 

[jase05]

What do you call reasonable cost?

 

[Wanderlust_tim]

Anytime in April? and is it one way or return?

Lastly are you looking for direct flights? Or are you happy for a stop?

 

[hossein_au]

What do you call reasonable cost?

I cannot find any thing lower than "Y" class between IST and AYT!

"Reasonable", I would say, is anything less than, say, $1,000 or $1,100 for the three of us.

 

[hossein_au]

Anytime in April? and is it one way or return?

Lastly are you looking for direct flights? Or are you happy for a stop?

Prefer direct, but happy to have one stop over. Dates are 14th or 15th of April for the outbound and 20th or 21st for the inbound.

 

[Wanderlust_tim]

Prefer direct, but happy to have one stop over. Dates are 14th or 15th of April for the outbound and 20th or 21st for the inbound.

From what i can see direct flights are charter airlines such as Condor which probably won't be what you're looking for in experience and a value for money sense. Lufthansa and Turkish each fly the route and they're Singapore Airlines partners, perhaps they would be worth using points on (someone more learned in Krisflyer redemptions should be able to chime in).

 

[hossein_au]

From what i can see direct flights are charter airlines such as Condor which probably won't be what you're looking for in experience and a value for money sense. Lufthansa and Turkish each fly the route and they're Singapore Airlines partners, perhaps they would be worth using points on (someone more learned in Krisflyer redemptions should be able to chime in).

Thanks for the suggestion. I am happy to fly any old airline, even LCCs, if the timing and costs are ‘reasonable’. It is only a 2-3 hour flight. I am getting to HAM on EK first class, so I can be less precious for intra-EU

 

[dajop]

Kayak keeps on throwing up Sun Express. Seems to be JV between TK & LH...

 

[hossein_au]

Kayak keeps on throwing up Sun Express. Seems to be JV between TK & LH...

Oh, good old Kayak, has totally escaped my mind. I’ll look into Sun Express; thanks.

 

[Must...Fly!]

If it's one way you might find legacy carriers prohibitively expensive. In Europe a lot of them do still prescribe to the older mantra of short haul being much cheaper when you book a return ticket.

Points ticket is good advice,perhaps try looking in to that through SQ - oneworld will be of little use I think

 

[dajop]

Points ticket is good advice,perhaps try looking in to that through SQ - oneworld will be of little use I think

Catch with SQ is that Turkey is in ME/North Africa zone, so that's 17.5K pts oneway, and then looking at about $150 in surcharges using TK or more if using LH.

 

[jase05]

Catch with SQ is that Turkey is in ME/North Africa zone, so that's 17.5K pts oneway, and then looking at about $150 in surcharges using TK or more if using LH.

Can see availability with Avianca but in J only and award availability with SkyTeam but the fees make it cost prohibitive let alone being mostly 2 stops

 

[hossein_au]

If it's one way you might find legacy carriers prohibitively expensive. In Europe a lot of them do still prescribe to the older mantra of short haul being much cheaper when you book a return ticket.

Points ticket is good advice,perhaps try looking in to that through SQ - oneworld will be of little use I think

I’m after return ticket. I am finding it difficult to find any availability on SQ web site (ie. partners).

 

[hossein_au]

Catch with SQ is that Turkey is in ME/North Africa zone, so that's 17.5K pts oneway, and then looking at about $150 in surcharges using TK or more if using LH.

I did notice it was 35k in Y and 55k in J, but I did not know TK and LH attract that much YQ through SQ! Bummer!

 

[hossein_au]

Can see availability with Avianca but in J only and award availability with SkyTeam but the fees make it cost prohibitive let alone being mostly 2 stops

I’ll look into Avianca. Thanks.

 

[jase05]

I’ll look into Avianca. Thanks.

Avianca is 54k return in J plus fees and is 2 stops so a long day

 

[Gremlin]

Don't have any wisdom other than your return leg is over the Easter weekend. That may be why costs aren't that friendly.

 

[hossein_au]

Don't have any wisdom other than your return leg is over the Easter weekend. That may be why costs aren't that friendly.

True! Good observation; thanks.

 

[Mattg]

Not sure if you ended up booking yet, but I see that Turkish Airlines has just announced it will launch Munich-Antalya flights from April, operating 2x per week. Given it's a new route, prices may be a bit more reasonable.

 

[hossein_au]

Thanks Mate. Just a few days ago I used my AmEx travel credits to book the flights (had 3x travel credits worth 1x$300 and 2x$400). I ended up having three separate PNRs with one travel credit used against each PNR.

I think it was blood expensive for what it is (basically a couple of intra-EU legs in each direction, in economy, costing north of $400 per person). At least I got to use the travel credits.