Look like the airfare for 29th Aug from Sydney to Madrid is A$1881 for Finnair's premium Economy (QF81, AY132, AY1661), times 6 people = 11.2k. Is there any way I can save on this?
I wish I participated in the Finnair point sale… https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/673063
Anyway, PM welcome.
Wow
Did you actually just look up those flight fares for the op ?
Scoot to Athens would be horrific imo
Yeah fly economy
Cut down your travel time… flights you’ve listed take 41hr to get there!
Qatar 909 and 149 get you there in 25h25m for $8000 spend the remaining $3000 on hotels and fancy restaurants for the remaining 16hrs to catch up on sleep and eat better than airline food…
Thank you so much for actually looking up. So in your opinion do you consider Qatar economy class (whose fare you quoted) is comparable with Finnair Premium Economy? (not sarcastic).
moving 6 people to Madrid
Congratulations on the 👍 decision.
You'll ❤️ it there.
How do you know that he is not moving the wife with 5 kids there and he is staying with the girl friend?
enveloped is a 💃.
The real kind.
cause he wouldnt go premium to do that.. would be peasant class.
If you start now and hitch a ride on a container ship, you'll get there in no time. :)
More likely stuck in a port at Shang Hai for the next few months
…> times 6 people = 11.2k. Is there any way I can save on this?
derrr… Save 50% by just booking three seats and sitting on each other's lap!
Just tell the airline that 3 of the adults identify as toddlers, and thus will sit on laps, please fetch the belt extensions.
Is there any way I can save on this?
Take fewer people, fly the economy option instead.
is there a return flight?
Also had a look at the flight mentioned: SYD-MAD
and its P/E only on the SIN-HEL leg, the rest are Economy
Thank you for actually looking up. The P/E is only needed if travel by night, so the first 5 hours of economy is acceptable. But why do you use ITA software instead of Google Flight? Does it provide combination tickets across airlines without partnership (which Google Flight normally don't)?
ITAmatrix allowed using multiple destinations (google flights has it now) for longer and has better date mechanics (+/- 2 days) than google flights and also seems to have a better algorithm to find cheap flights.
Also when inputting destination, it allows you to select a radius (up to 2000km) and select all airports in the area (great for trips to Europe where cheap internal flights are available). I’ve also seen it does combos without it being a common airline/known airline partnership but I would have to assume that they were within the same partnership that I wasn’t aware of.
In my experience, I’ve had quite good luck using it and for example in 2019 booked return SYD-LHR (return from CDG) for $1100 in peak euro summer (late June-early august) while typical prices were about double. After I had booked the price actually dropped to the high $900s but I was happy enough to with the price I got. This was before Scoot flew the route (I.e no competition) and was on a full service (albeit kinda shit) airline - Air China via. old chengdu airport both ways (airport even worse than the airline)
stay here
Go to Logan for a few weeks instead and invest the $10k saved with rektrading.
Go to Logan for a few weeks instead
Can recommend.
Oh, in this case we are moving, not travelling. You mean Logan City in QLD? Why?
Hey could you also spend some time researching flights/hotels and doing odd jobs for me as I am super busy at the moment.
Anyway, PM welcome.
PM sent
Thanks so much - just start with those hotel bookings for Thailand and then the dishes.
I've shipped the dishes to Thailand so I can wash them in between carrying your luggage and playing caddy at Black Mountain. Thanks for the opportunity.
Fly regular economy; Scoot to Athens for around $650 pp, then on to Madrid for another $150pp or so.
The point sale would have unbeneficial for your situation, given getting six award tickets is highly unlikely unless you are flying economy.
Also, the OWE status which would get you in the First lounges where available, usually has a limit of 1 guest per OWE member, so you would need three passengers to hold OWE status to get all passengers to enjoy the lounges.