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SYD to VIE/FRA/AMS/FCO China Airlines Premium Economy Return ~$1431 or ~$3649 Business Return (Peak Season) @ Aunt Betty

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SYD to VIE/FRA/AMS/FCO China Airlines Premium Economy Return ~$1431 or ~$3649 Business Return (Peak Season) @ Aunt Betty
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qantas21 on 23/01/2018 - 20:57 auntbetty.com.au (1471 clicks)
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NEWYEAR30/NEWYEAR50/NEWYEAR75/NEWYEAR100/NEWYEAR15

Hi Team,

For all those dreaming of a European Summer holiday… this is your chance to fly in relative comfort on a brand new A350-900 at an affordable price.
caveat - I have never flown China Airlines A350 premium economy

China Airlines has a 7-star safety rating according to airlineratings.com, 4 star overall rating according to Skytrax and number 35 in the world.

See: https://www.china-airlines.com/au/en/discover/promotion/earl… for full terms and conditions.
See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGLC4KQSSyQ for full seat review.

Step 1: Use china-airlines.com website to find your desired route and best pricing.
The cheapest departure price begins ~$774.31.
The cheapest return price begins ~$782.61.

The cheapest option I could find was Sydney to Amsterdam ~$1431.
Economy options for same routing starts at ~$1361 in Economy on China Airlines. Emirates, Qantas, Cathay etc all around $2000.

Step 2: Go on to auntbetty.com.au to book your desired route at an even cheaper rate. Add promo code NEWYEAR30 (return international booking) / NEWYEAR50 (bookings over $2500) / NEWYEAR75 (bookings over $3500) etc etc right through to up to $250 off.

Please see:
https://www.auntbetty.com.au/new-year-deals

Aunt Betty is a subsidiary of the Flight Centre Travel Group Limited with the same ABN as Flight Centre. I have tried getting QLD flight centres to match a few of Aunt Betty’s prices in the past without success. Maybe you might have luck?

Step 3: Fly to Europe with 35kg baggage allowance (PE) or 40kg (Business) in around 25hours (be sure to avoid the longer flying option that includes overnight unless of course you want to see Taipei!)

Happy Flying.

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  • Bellpop on 23/01/2018 - 20:59

    Thanks for sharing and the write up

  • drillvoice on 23/01/2018 - 21:32

    Cripes! Looks good. Is it possible to book multi-city trips with aunt betty?

    • Bellpop on 23/01/2018 - 21:37

      I have, yep.

      • drillvoice on 24/01/2018 - 18:00

        how? is there a link to the booking interface?

        • Bellpop on 24/01/2018 - 18:16

          Oh sorry my mistake. I had my holidays mixed up. It was another Australian booking site that allowed longer stopovers.

        • bozbargain on 24/01/2018 - 19:21

          China Airlines doesn’t allow multi-city on their website either for this cabin. I ended up booking through Flightcentre, they will price match whatever rate you show them and will handle seat allocation etc for you as well (can’t be done online, they have to ring the airline for this).

  • bozbargain on 23/01/2018 - 21:35
    +4

    Great write up! I was looking at this earlier this week but forgot to post, their dedicated premium economy cabin looks amazing. I never realised they were a Taiwanese airline, I typically excluded them and China Southern/Eastern from my search results). A 2-3-2 cabin config whereas most premium airlines would squeeze in an extra seat (and in regular economy Qatar and the likes put in 10 seats so imagine the extra space you have!). Massive touch screen displays as well. You can have a stop over in Taipei but that brings up the price a bit ($80 or so). Kids fly for even less and all fares earn 100% miles (if you fly as a family, pool them all into Korean Air, will get you close to 80k points for a family of 4).

    • Bellpop on 23/01/2018 - 21:38
      +1

      Share next time :)

  • lainey13 on 23/01/2018 - 22:30
    +1

    (1) Departure from SYD:
    ※Ticketing period: 2018/01/12 – 2018/02/28
    ※Departure period: 2018/01/12 – 2018/12/12
    ※Price:
    　Sydney to North Asia, from AUD$1448
    　Sydney to Europe, from AUD$1795

    (2) Departure from MEL:
    ※Ticketing period: 2018/01/12 – 2018/01/31
    ※Departure period: 2018/03/26 – 2018/11/30
    ※Price:
    　Melbourne to Taipei, from AUD$1437
    　Melbourne to Europe/USA, from AUD$1759

    (3) Departure from BNE:
    ※Ticketing period: 2018/01/12 – 2018/01/31
    ※Departure period: 2018/03/26 – 2018/06/15
    ※Price:
    　Brisbane to Taipei, from AUD$1350
    　Brisbane to Europe, from AUD$1705

    I'd like to see someone actually book this premium economy fare….

  • bob_wangkar on 23/01/2018 - 22:56
    +7

    For people that don't know, its a Taiwanese airline. Generally means above average to excellent service and quality. Demeanour of people from this country are also polite due to past Japanese influence.

    And I would recommend the overnight option. Taipei is one of the most underrated cities to visit in Asia right now.

    • quaddie on 23/01/2018 - 23:12

      Not sure where the downvotes are coming from, CCP 50 cent trolls maybe?

    • dadazd2003 on 23/01/2018 - 23:24
      -1

      Hi Bob:

      As an engineer who has a bachelor degree of civil aviation safety engineering and a Chinese who come from Mainland, I do not agree on your comments.
      From records, Taiwan has one of the worst safety record and it can be seen from many main Airline ranks.
      For example, http://www.jacdec.de/airline-safety-ranking-2017/ China airline is rank 60th, the last position of all airline companies in this rank.
      I usually donot not want to point out the cheap airline companies have certain risks, but your comment is really misleading.

      I have no comments about the "Japanese influence" part because I respect the people who fight against the evil during the WW2 and may people remember how precious of the peace.

      • corgicorgi on 24/01/2018 - 00:14
        +4

        Haters always will be haters mate.

      • [Deactivated] on 24/01/2018 - 00:26
        +1

        It's really not that bad, they've improved a lot and haven't had a crash since 2002.
        And um "Taiwan has one of the worst safety record"…perhaps you forgot about EVA being a top airline even in the link you provided.

        • dadazd2003 on 24/01/2018 - 01:01
          -3

          Hi, EVA is ok, but have not seen them much in Australia.
          I used to have a chart of distribution of accidents and near miss when I was a student, Taiwan was the high risk zone for sure. Considering there are many other Airlines like TransAsia…
          The record is not only based on crash, near miss and incident are also included, some times people are just lucky and there are some safety tolerance. I still not suggest ppl take cheap airline, they cheap for a reason.

      • bob_wangkar on 24/01/2018 - 00:55

        Well I never mentioned anything about the Chinese nor did I personally mention anything about safety. Amongst the Taiwanese, China Airlines is significantly down on airline safety, but easily better than most other airlines around the world. Look at EVA air's safety record and history. No hull loss etc.

        China airlines isn't particularly cheap either. What is right about the OP's post is that they have invested heavily in A350s and are one of the biggest customers.

        • dadazd2003 on 24/01/2018 - 01:14
          -6

          You are too amateur for this topic, you do not really understand what you are talking about.
          The service quality is usually ranked by skytraxratings, there are around 10 5star airlines and China Airlines is a 4 star, which is a quite normal rank. Of course,there are some other companies are 2-3 stars but the service of a 4 star company could not be "above average to excellent service"
          when you said "quality " it usually mean safety, you may need realize it.

        • Maxxjet on 24/01/2018 - 07:04
          +1

          When you mentioned so called Japanese influences, you revealed your true colour - say that to a Korean about “ Japanese influences “ . It is not bad thing from different prospective but occupation and colonisation are facts , no matter how you sugar coated it but your attempt to just do that is just pathetic- pity you tried to hijacked a fly bargain topic in this manner.

        • arcticmonkey on 25/01/2018 - 06:11

          @dadazd2003:

          How can we turn professional like you? Do you offer tutoring?

      • Maxxjet on 24/01/2018 - 07:00
        +1

        Not sure why you were downvoted , your comments can be checked out on Wikipedia- personally not a fan of CCP at all but China does not mean CCP and CCP doesn’t repeat all China

      • buckster on 24/01/2018 - 07:13
        -2

        Can't trust mainland Chinese when it comes to opinions on the Taiwanese though, biased

      • [Deactivated] on 24/01/2018 - 07:26
        +2

        you can never understand cheap ass in Australia.
        They want best quality with non reasonable price.

      • NotAnAudiophile on 24/01/2018 - 08:04

        caveat : I have never taken China Airlines before.

        But these kind of reports do look worrying (albeit an old report):

        https://flightfox.com/tradecraft/worlds-deadliest-airlines-d…

        Its a complex interplay of fleet, maintenance and to me the most important factor the human element.

  • NotAnAudiophile on 23/01/2018 - 23:05
    +3

    Yes China Airlines is a Taiwanese airline. Unfortunately, it also doesn't have the best safety track record. Just google it….

  • Bobomonster on 24/01/2018 - 00:21

    Their A350 hard product looks fantastic! I’ll rather fly with them than any of the other mainland China airlines.

  • skazclaw on 24/01/2018 - 00:43

    "Something went wrong." on the china airline website

    • CamNEW on 29/01/2018 - 15:52

      Did you figure out what was going wrong? I'm getting this also?

      • skazclaw on 29/01/2018 - 16:19

        Problem with firefox for me (probably addons like adblock or something). Worked on a barebones chrome.

        • CamNEW on 30/01/2018 - 08:34

          Looks like mine was they only fly from/to Melbourne on Saturdays, so instead of offering the next available date it returns an error message???

  • Spizz on 24/01/2018 - 07:30

    Also looks like Business class to both Europe and the USA for just over $4k-

    https://www.australianfrequentflyer.com.au/community/threads…

    • qantas21 on 24/01/2018 - 08:23

      <4k: SYD - AMS on China Airlines Business Class is selling for $3649 per person NEWYEAR75/NEWYEAR150 on Aunt Betty.

      The next cheapest Business Class fare is selling for $5253 with Thai and Austrian Airlines for longer flying time and older aircraft.

      • bozbargain on 24/01/2018 - 08:36

        Although that’s a great price as well, I think the Premium Economy deal is the sweet spot. Not only is it cheaper than regular economy during school holidays, it’s argubly the best hard product out there (Singapore Air does great A350 PE as well all the way to Europe but then in a row of 8 instead of 7). Regarding business class, that cabin looks great as well but won’t be able to compete with the top airlines IMO.

  • Romain on 24/01/2018 - 08:08
    +1

    This is just fantastic for Premium Eco (and Business as pointed out by Spizz).

  • theoracle30 on 24/01/2018 - 10:59
    +2

    Thanks OP, booked my parents to go 3 weeks from Dec 11 to early Jan. They're excited, and are flying from Perth to connect to this deal.

    Closest price direct from Perth, same dates, is about $1600 in normal economy.

    • qantas21 on 24/01/2018 - 13:20

      This makes me happy! I'm glad the ozbargain community could make use of these airfares. Perth - Syd - Taipei - Amsterdam?

      • theoracle30 on 24/01/2018 - 13:27

        Yes they will fly the Perth-Sydney legs separately so there's a few days buffer each way. Using their free Amex return flights.

        • anawth on 24/01/2018 - 14:08

          wait… they let you do SYD-PER on free Amex flights now? I'm pretty sure that wasn't on the map previously?

        • theoracle30 on 24/01/2018 - 14:23
          +1

          @anawth: From Perth, you can go to Sydney on a return trip.

          But you can't originate from Sydney and go to Perth return.

        • anawth on 24/01/2018 - 14:28

          @BL5965: got it. Cheers

  • NegEveryone on 24/01/2018 - 14:42

    I'm trying to find the "$3649 Business Return" flights.
    I want to Travel from Brisbane to Europe - June 18th till July 28th
    Best price I get is $4800 Return.

    • qantas21 on 24/01/2018 - 16:08

      Hi Ozjason,

      Brisbane to Europe in June/July is unavailable. Please see departures from Sydney. Brisbane to Europe is available oct/nov/dec for $3649.

      • Spizz on 24/01/2018 - 17:21

        I found it for a dept September 1st week, return october 1st week for $3649. Wish EVA Air was included in this Business Class special.

  • snajper on 24/01/2018 - 14:48
    +3

    Thanks OP…… not an expert on safety but i might book my inlaws and see how it goes…. i will keep you guys posted..

  • Pootie Tang on 24/01/2018 - 15:47

    Can anyone think of another company apart from flight centre that saturate the market with different branding like Escape travel, cruiseabout, student flights etc etc. Screams sucker to me.

  • mygame on 25/01/2018 - 07:39

    Best price I can find from Syd to London is $5209 depart late June and return mid July

  • Associatedmwilk24 @ Aunt Betty on 25/01/2018 - 09:50

    Hey all!

    Sitting here in the Aunt Betty Office in sunny surfers paradise! Love seeing the community here backing us!

    • qantas21 on 25/01/2018 - 21:14
      +2

      The Ozbargain community would be open to further supporting Aunt Betty aka Flight Centre with some unique discount codes…

  • jcisecki on 26/01/2018 - 10:26

    Does anyone know if a stopover is allowed? Ie: enough time to travel to somewhere else within Asia for a week on the return home?

    • bozbargain on 26/01/2018 - 13:30

      Yes, but beyond 24 or 48h it seems to attract an extra fee. See my earlier comment.

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