I am in a situation where my wife can fly for free from gold coast to Sydney return on labor day weekend. for me to join her will be ~ $500….total rip off.
so i suggested i fly from ballina airport 100km south for $250 return. Thus i drop her off, the continue to my airport… we both depart and land roughly the same time.
is this being extremely cheap, ie saving $250 minus petrol but flying seperatly…
anyone else done this, in their life of being cheap.
id have done the same, only 100kms extra each way, thats $20 in fuel really…
Well you do end up saving but with car travel (both ways), then airport parking, then car depreciation etc you'd be saving a lot less.
airport coolongatta is on the way to airport Balline
… and parking at airport Ballina is cheaper so sort of works out nicely… only flaw is double the chances of a delay, and well being apart sucks, but no big deal.
being apart sucks, but no big deal.
Oh really? Come home and sleep on the couch tonight.
How much checked luggage allowed?
How much do you weigh?
no checked luggage, i weigh alot, u need a specific amount…
Maybe he can do it the other way around (wife in bag)? 😉
haha, i had no idea what u were on about….
$250 for a few hours apart!
sounds like a good plan to me!
Depending on the wife some people would pay $250 to spend a couple of ours away from the wife!
spend a couple of ours away from the wife!
Was that "ours" a freudian slip or just a typo?
Typo. I actually love my partner and would pay to spend more time with her.
But I know several people who would spend $500 just to spend a flight away from their wife.
I'm on the Jetstar website and they have OOL-SYD return for $248 for your dates (leaving 02 Oct 7am - return 05 Oct 6am).
yes thanks, need to leave late monday and early saturday.. still depressing paying $250 to fly to sydney when im sure tiger can get me there for 39 or jetstar 69 any other weekend
We do this sort of thing all the time.
I live in Canberra and we fly to Brissy or Adelaide every so often. It's cheaper to get a $15 bus ticket to Sydney and fly from Sydney for about $300 return then fly from Canberra which usually costs $600-700 return.
yeh its no brainer sucks, flying to/from canberra
get a amex edge card for $195 and use the free domestic ticket … save even more !
$250 you can spend on your wife.
It's OK to sound cheap - you're a member of Oz Bargain.
You don't sound cheap. You sound intelligent. Work hard to keep YOUR money in YOUR pocket. Our corporations are doing just fine without it.
Sounds reasonable to me. $250 is a fair saving and 100km is not that far (I drove from the Sunshine Coast to the Gold Coast for my flight to Singapore - that's about 200km each way.) Saved about $500 on flying from Brisbane return though!