Yada Yada
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I'm costing a return trip in business class SYD-HKG so that I can attend a conference in Macau in May. Here is what I've just found online:
With QF I can earn points towards retaining status, although I wasn't really planning to fly much with them this year domestically as I'd prefer to retain Gold status on Virgin Blue.
What's with the CX price? It's way out of line.
On SQ, the benefit is that I could leave a day earlier, do some work in SIN and visit friends on the weekend before continuing on to HKG. And what's more, I can travel on on the A380 both ways between SYD & SIN.
The MH schedule is a bit painful and would require either overnight flights (I'm sick of doing that) or staying a night in KUL between flights which would increase the total cost. On the plus side, I could credit the flights to Velocity.
I saw the following in the Cheap International Airfares forum section:
Has anyone here who regularly travels to Honkers got any better ideas? At this point SQ wins in terms of cost, convenience, and fun in the air and in SIN. But there is no FF payoff at all with them - I don't even have a *A account any more (thanks a lot AN) so the points would be wasted.
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QF: SYD-HKG-SYD $6,274 (D)
CX: SYD-HKG-SYD $7,704 (D)
SQ: SYD-SIN-HKG-SIN-SYD $4,903 (?)
MH: SYD-KUL-HKG-KUL-SYD $4,641 (J)
What's with the CX price? It's way out of line.
On SQ, the benefit is that I could leave a day earlier, do some work in SIN and visit friends on the weekend before continuing on to HKG. And what's more, I can travel on on the A380 both ways between SYD & SIN.
The MH schedule is a bit painful and would require either overnight flights (I'm sick of doing that) or staying a night in KUL between flights which would increase the total cost. On the plus side, I could credit the flights to Velocity.
I saw the following in the Cheap International Airfares forum section:
This is an outrageous difference in cost, especially given that LHR is more than twice the distance from SYD. What gives?Platy said:My mother just bought two business class tickets on Cathay for LHR-BNE-LHR for $5,500 inclusive per person to come over in late February. That is way cheaper than any OneWorld fare the other way.
Has anyone here who regularly travels to Honkers got any better ideas? At this point SQ wins in terms of cost, convenience, and fun in the air and in SIN. But there is no FF payoff at all with them - I don't even have a *A account any more (thanks a lot AN) so the points would be wasted.