Advice for Flying Adelaide to Scotland (Inverness) Feb / March Next Year

tunzafun001 on 02/11/2016 - 14:13

Hi all,

Just looking for advice on best value flights out of Adelaide and into Scotland (ultimately ending up in Inverness).

For example, am I better off flying into Glasgow etc or perhaps further afield Dublin, Amsterdam etc?

Maybe even flying over to Perth or Melbourne, and then off on the international leg?

Used to be a bonus getting a cheap flight to Singapore, and then a decent carrier from there (ie Etihad, Emirates, Singapore, Qatar, BA etc)

My last Euro flight was an Open Jaw into London and out of Paris (via Ethihad) at half the cost of a London Return. Trying to reciprocate that.

Cheers

Travel Airfare

Comments

  • inherentchoice on 02/11/2016 - 15:12
    +1

    Skyscanner is pretty good at crunching all the numbers to find the cheapest options.

    Try this search for example:

    https://www.skyscanner.com.au/transport/flights/adl/inv/chea…

    Apparently KLM/Malaysian will do ADL to INV for $1152 return. It's a pretty epic trip though with stops at KL and Amsterdam.

    You can even search by whole country:

    https://www.skyscanner.com.au/transport/flights/adl/uk/cheap…

    If you want to save every dollar sometimes there's creative ways to string together a heap of hops on budget airlines, although AirAsia has withdrawn its Adelaide flights unfortunately. But you could do something like ADL to Bali on Tigerair/Jetstar, then get to Tehran on AirAsia, then use Pegasus Airlines to London, and finally EasyJet to Inverness. And of course you can have stopovers at each country on the way.

    Often there are cheap flights from Bangkok to Europe on Norwegian Air, sometimes for under $250 one way.

    • tunzafun001 on 02/11/2016 - 15:24

      Thanks. Pretty Brutal with 37hr flights etc. I'll try and get my brain around the ITA matrix and see how I go with flights from nearby Asian starting points.

      • inherentchoice on 02/11/2016 - 15:31

        I don't think there's many alternatives for ADL to INV. With 9 hours at KUL you could find a hotel and get some rest.

        Also remember to do a "multi city" search for open jaw flights as it's much cheaper than booking separate one-way trips.

        I'm pretty sure Bali is the cheapest Asian starting point to get to from ADL, as it's the only one serviced by direct flights on low cost carriers.

        • tunzafun001 on 02/11/2016 - 16:24

          Cheers, I will look at Bali. However, last trip it was a few hundred cheaper to fly to Melbourne via Qantas and then on to SIN via AirAsia, and then on from there with Etihad. Darwin or Perth would have been better, but the numbers didn't crunch.

        • inherentchoice on 02/11/2016 - 16:28

          @tunzafun001: And Indonesia has now cancelled their visa fees for Aussies.

  • ChrisLevo on 02/11/2016 - 16:15

    Ask your local travel agent.

    Mine was so good that I married her :-)

    • tunzafun001 on 02/11/2016 - 16:20

      Fair call…Could make it awkward for the GF! haha

      Thanks

  • ChrisLevo on 02/11/2016 - 17:00

    I'm actually serious about talking with a good travel agent.

    A good one (to be cherished and nurtured when you find one - maybe I went to extremes!) knows all of the good fares, as well as the pitfalls of not knowing some quite arcane and complicated rules made by the airlines.

    At the worst, you can just walk away from a travel agent that cannot match what you find on the Web, but they will generally have an excellent reason for not suggesting that flight/special/itinerary to you.

    The first rule of air travel is that the airlines always win.

    Inverness is a really pretty place, and a few pints of Heavy would go down really well - I miss that stuff.

    Hope you have a really nice time.

    • tunzafun001 on 02/11/2016 - 18:24

      ..even a beer tip thrown in! Looking forward to it. Cheers mate.

  • holdenmg on 02/11/2016 - 17:54
    +2

    http://optifly.com/fo-ADL-INV.aspx

    • tunzafun001 on 02/11/2016 - 18:23
      +1

      Nice. Havent seen this site before, thanks.

    • inherentchoice on 02/11/2016 - 18:47

      So all of the optimal routes have 2 stops.

      • mistermr6 on 03/11/2016 - 13:32

        Makes sense because there wouldn't be any direct flights from Asia to Inverness! Not until they officially find the Loch Ness Monster :-)

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