Waiting waiting on sales :)

[Pleb Status]

The QF/EK sale including NZ and europe (J specially) has some pretty good prices IMHO. eg sub-$6k in J oz-LHR is a very very good deal.

Except when you realise that sub AUD6000 is just their normal pricing for LHR-PER in J....

 

[RichardMEL]

Except when you realise that sub AUD6000 is just their normal pricing for LHR-PER in J....

ex-EU pricing is going to be different and I'm talking east coast -> europe. I still think it's a relatively good deal

each to their own.

 

[love_the_life]

QF flights in Y to Tokyo are more expensive than they were a few weeks ago - up by about $130 for CBR - NRT return

 

[mrsterryn]

Husband ended up taking a first class ticket to London. It was just under 10,000 .
He is happy lol

 

[JohnK]

Waiting and waiting for a sale SYD-BKK Feb-Apr but price hasn't moved.

Checked Zuji today for BNE-BKK same dates and up comes $742 airfare via SIN both ways. Check Qantas website and airfare is > $900. Check multi trip BNE-SIN-BKK and airfare comes up as Sale $705.

Oh the deception continues.

 

[AustraliaPoochie]

Don't wait for the sales.
I am certainly not waiting/holding my breath for that elusive very low QF sale.
Am "biting the pellet" and just booked and paid Aud$10xx ADL - MEL - AKL (bofore P+P). $699 if from MEL - AKL.
If you need to build up QF SC, and no particular destination but just need the points, book a J seat with EK TransTasman before they stop it mid Mar.
QF Business Sale fare now earn 125 QF SC, instead of the former one where it earnt 120 QF SC ADL - MEL - AKL in J.
I have one now (just booked a J seat), overnighting in MEL and then back with the "opposition" on the 787 AKL - ADL.
Though I could always come back to Aust in pleb class with "Death*" of course.

 

[UP4014]

QF flights in Y to Tokyo are more expensive than they were a few weeks ago - up by about $130 for CBR - NRT return

QF has heavy loading on the Japan routes, expected to remain pretty much throughout 2018.

If you want QF and see a fare you can live with take it.

 

[kermatu]

Sale "from select cities" only throws up some bizarre scenarios (even by airline / QF fare setting standards). SYD-DXB-LHR-DXB-SYD flights in F - $10,000. Add CBR-SYD and SYD-CBR to top and tail the exact same flights on the one ticket - $15,700. Most of these CBR sectors would be Y flights too.

 

[UP4014]

For people looking for London flights on QF look at going via Perth for any deals. Only one flight booked out due to some rough neck sports event in Perth i think in April. ( I'm not big on team sports so they are all rough to me )

Problem is everyone wants Europe via Singapore so there are feeder flights in from all over Australia and then very limited out the other side.

 

[Matt_01]

I think it is to early for any DSC offers or really good sales. I assume these cards are played mid third quarter, early fourth quarter to sure up future bookings that can be reported at FYE.

 

[Anna]

Last year QF put out great prices in February for US travel. I paid <$1K for ADL - PHX to travel at Thanksgiving last year. Yes in Y but I'm no wimp

 

[RichardMEL]

Don't wait for the sales.
I am certainly not waiting/holding my breath for that elusive very low QF sale.
Am "biting the pellet" and just booked and paid Aud$10xx ADL - MEL - AKL (bofore P+P). $699 if from MEL - AKL.
If you need to build up QF SC, and no particular destination but just need the points, book a J seat with EK TransTasman before they stop it mid Mar.
QF Business Sale fare now earn 125 QF SC, instead of the former one where it earnt 120 QF SC ADL - MEL - AKL in J.
I have one now (just booked a J seat), overnighting in MEL and then back with the "opposition" on the 787 AKL - ADL.
Though I could always come back to Aust in pleb class with "Death*" of course.

You do know there is a current EK/QF sale including trans tas Y/J/F fares till 18th Jan right?

So you did, kind of, get a sale fare which makes this post's point a bit moot, no?

Enjoy your NZ 787 ride though we'll never hear the end of it if they sub it for one of the dodgy lease aircraft due to their engine issues hahaha

 

[JohnK]

Last year QF put out great prices in February for US travel. I paid <$1K for ADL - PHX to travel at Thanksgiving last year. Yes in Y but I'm no wimp

I somehow get the impression that Qantas is keeping quiet in regards to airfares.

Domestic airfares have been increasing and there's nothing special about $200 one-way BNE-MEL.

International airfares can be cheap but not that cheap recently unless Qantas is launching a route or directly in competition with multiple carriers on a route that is not performing so well.

 

[RichardMEL]

I think domestic fares have crept up ever since VA and QF quit their Capacity war a year or so back. Plus QF have reduced capacity a bit with the rmeoval of many 332's from domestic triangle routes (and some transcons ) to fund the trans tasman services, so there's a slight reduction there, and neither QF or VA have incentive to really push it like they were during the capacity war where they were dumping cheap seats like candy and losing bunddles.

Internationally there's far more pressure from foreign competition and other factors influencing things (for example, QF could well feel pressure from carriers like Scoot, and the Asian carriers putting more capacity into oz - eg multiple frequencies in a/c like A350's by SQ, CX etc)

Plus UK pricing has hit the toilet since brexit, where F fares under $10k are not unusual anymore (compare this to a few years back),

QR dumping relatively cheap J fares into the market too also put pressure on, and QR's doing that because of their own situation in the ME right now.

Or, look at carriers like AC opening up routes like MEL in addition to BNE and SYD and this puts pressure on Canada pricing too.

Soo many factors inflencing markets out there....

I also notice QF had a period of single day "rush sale" fares late last year, but they dried up during December but those got you Y fares to China for $500 and the like.. think this kind of thing may return if QF found it worked... so you have to be quick to get these

we live in interesting times (in certain markets) but probably not so much domestic

my 2 cents

 

[michaele]

I'm finding prices to UK (outside of last minute sales) are increasing, particularly if you don't want to go through PER.

Flying from BNE i'd rather do more even legs BNE-SIN-LHR but QF is charging a premium of $3-400 to take that routing in Y.

I have a bunch of long haul to book this year but not impressed with any of the 'sales' thus far...

 

[docjames]

Waiting and waiting for a sale SYD-BKK Feb-Apr but price hasn't moved.

Checked Zuji today for BNE-BKK same dates and up comes $742 airfare via SIN both ways. Check Qantas website and airfare is > $900. Check multi trip BNE-SIN-BKK and airfare comes up as Sale $705.

Oh the deception continues.

Why is that deception? it's obvious priced differently due to different fare structure / search criteria.

 

[mannej]

Waiting and waiting for a sale SYD-BKK Feb-Apr but price hasn't moved.

Checked Zuji today for BNE-BKK same dates and up comes $742 airfare via SIN both ways. Check Qantas website and airfare is > $900. Check multi trip BNE-SIN-BKK and airfare comes up as Sale $705.

Oh the deception continues.

What dates are you looking at, as I got the QF site to price up BNE-SIN-BKK for $671 return.

 

[JohnK]

Why is that deception? it's obvious priced differently due to different fare structure / search criteria.

When you do a BNE-BKK search that routing does not appear only more expensive airfares via SYD. When you do a multi-city search the cheap airfare comes up.

That to me is deception.

 

[JohnK]

What dates are you looking at, as I got the QF site to price up BNE-SIN-BKK for $671 return.

When I checked yesterday the airfare was $705. I'm sure I checked for 2 people travelling. I checked again today and the airfare was $706 so thought I'd better make the bookings.

Called Qantas to cancel a BNE-SYD booking for wife and use the remaining credit for BNE-SIN-BKK. Total cost was ~$655 which is correct.

While I was on the phone I went to make the booking including daughter and the airfare shot up to $867 + now $75 for daughter where as earlier it was only $60 for daughter.

Gutted. There must have only been 1 airfare available at the cheaper price. I can see a $697 airfare with GoToGate and MyTrip on Skyscanner. Seriously thinking of booking to save the $160+ extra Qantas wants.

 

[RichardMEL]

Sounds like availability is tight in the cheap buckets rather than anything deceptive per se.

Also remember some of those cheap resellers do not work with live availability and you may go to book with them and find the price also changes.