An amazing price for return airfares to London, albeit on budget airlines. You may be able to source cheaper flights directly with Scoot/Norwegian.
Travel Dates are between 01 Oct 2017 and 22 Nov 2017, with limited availability for these dates.
I thought they stopped the boats
Updated guys. Budget airlines. Not as exciting as I thought :( but still might be useful for some.
Actually looks like a decent deal. The lowest on IWTF on those dates is with Vietnam Airlines (w' long stopovers in Vietnam) for 1k
The Norwegian leg was on CheapCheapLah a couple of months ago. I'll just quote myself:
Bags are $45 each way. If you want bags, food and seat section you are better selecting the LowFare+ option which adds about $90 on to the fare each way.
So $199 SGD ($189 AUD) going to London from Singapore is a steal, just need to find a cheap fare coming back.
Rang about the flights.
Got told they were also valid for Feb/Mar 2018.
Flying with Scoot to SNG then Norwegian to Lon via Copenhagen so a couple of stop overs… forgot to ask how long these were.
Was advised that price is with 7kg carry-on only, need to add ~$100 for baggage.
SNG
haha
SNG? You have to fly to Bolivia? No deal….
Tbh I'm just surprised Scoot even fly to Bolivia!
Was just teasing :P
Out of curiosity what kinda work do you do that requires you to type SNG for Singapore instead of SIN though?
@illumination:
Computer / server support. Most new ones are using sinxxxxx now, just the older ones that have sng. Since I have been in the job for a while I am used to the old names.
At this rate the UK might not be there by 2018.
My advice with this would be to ensure plenty of time between connections. My scoot flight to Singapore was delayed by 5 hours which would have ruined any connections such as this.
Or get some good travel insurance..
Can anyone recommend travel insurance that covers delays when tickets are purchased in separate legs?
It probably doesn't exist, or if it does it negates the cost saving of booking multi-ticket journeys on budget carriers… so if you're worried about it you may as well pay the little bit extra and book with an airline that can get you all the way.
The complimentary travel insurance on Citi Platinum / Signature cards cover this; check the PDS.
I'd actually assume most policies do, but obviously need to read the PDS carefully in all cases.
@z0s0: I'm not doubting you, but I'd be interested in the working of the PDS that says it's covered. I had a look at what I could find on the internet, but couldn't find anything saying it was covered. If you can send me a link to the PDS and the point reference I'd be interested to have a read.
It does look like a good policy… I did see it covers car hire insurance excess. I wish I had that in my credit card insurance policy.
(I live in Germany, so the Citi Platinum is not an option for me anyway).
Commbank insurance:
"We cover you for unexpected cancellation of travel arrangements and other unexpected expenses, provided the claim is not covered elsewhere in this insurance and is for one of the unexpected reasons listed below"
Under these inclusions is:
"- you miss your arranged travel because your preceeding flight was delayed or cancelled"
It also covers unexpected death or sickness of family members in Australia NOT travelling with you.
It's quite comprehensive for complimentary insurance.
FWIW, I flew Norwegian January Mallorca-Gatwick. Whilst it's budget, it was very comfy and good choice of purchased food. Also, free wifi which some full service airlines make a song & dance about! I have good impression of Norwegian, the quiet achiever.
Yep
Probably biggest game changer in the next ten years. Yet they don't come with below par safety standards from that of AirAsia. 200 odd aircraft on order. Would be great if they start extending their 787s down from Singapore to Australia..
Given how many billion flights Air Asia have done, how many problems have they had? Nothing is perfect. Maybe European > Asian in some people's mind (top airlines like Singapore excepted.)
@tightwad agree with you. Yes, they had some much-publicised mishaps. I've flown numerous times with AAX and have always been happy with the service. Norwegian Asian hub is Bangkok (I think) and now Singapore. Easy enough for Aussies to connect onwards to Europe and North America. The other budget airline that I like is Icelandic, flew them Paris-Toronto, also very impressive. If planned right, I could've had a couple days stopover in Reykjavik, but was in a hurry.
I'm planning to fly with these two in near future.
I agree. Norwegian and SAS run great as budget airlines. I had deals last year thru Bank Norwegian for as low as $70 from London to the USA. I'm going to Norway early next year, and they are a great airlines to hop around on
What's in it for flight center as these airlines don't provide commission…
I suspect if you booked direct it would be a little cheaper.
It's ~ $358 one way if you book direct (from OOL), so yes.
$40 booking fee plus upsell?
Good deal. But if you are flying from Melbourne, I would personally spend extra $100 to fly with Royal Brunei Airline.
Flew Norwegian London - Tromso(Norway) return with connecting flights in between. Had better service/experience than full service airlines for sure. Would recommend 10/10.
Its much what I'm hearing also. They seem to be trying to kill the market with low prices and a known standard of service. SAS are also picking up their game
by hot air balloon ?