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Qantas BNE/SYD/MEL - LAX $850 Return (approx) Incl. All Taxes and Fees Booked through Expedia.ie

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Qantas BNE/SYD/MEL - LAX $850 Return (approx) Incl. All Taxes and Fees Booked through Expedia.ie
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randompunter on 21/05/2012 - 17:31 expedia.ie (9860 clicks)
Last edited 21/05/2012 - 20:48

EDIT - Fellow Ozbargainers have confirmed this is working well into 2013

This crazy low fare appears to be only available on the Irish Expedia site. I have tested with various dates and can confirm the search works between September and early December 2012. I successfully booked return flights for two pax BNE - LAX from 26/10/12 - 16/11/12, and also two pax MEL - LAX 18/11/12 - 9/12/12. Good luck fellow Ozbargainers, hopefully many people get this price before their site gets Ozbargained!

Forgot to mention, I tried to book with my 28 Degrees card and it failed. 28 Degrees called me about 15mins later to check it wasn't dodgy. Unfortunately I had used an alternative card in the interim and copped an international transaction fee. Oh well not to worry, at this price who cares?!

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  • ironworthy on 21/05/2012 - 17:35
    +1

    lock in some US money now before ours drops even further

    • [Deactivated] on 21/05/2012 - 19:03
      -2

      So you can predict forex? Lucky you!

      • Ace on 21/05/2012 - 22:22

        Anyone with half a brain would be able to figure out that the dollar is only going to get worse by the end of the year with all the interest rate cuts and the turmoil in Europe.

        • geoffs87 on 21/05/2012 - 22:54

          but, arent all developed economies going to be affected by eurozone crisis???? Why will our dollar struggle against the rest of the world more than other countries, say america?

          Yes, you are correct about interest rate cuts, this is to slow inflation which causes higher interest rates… but as for Europe affecting aus more than anywhere else…

        • Trance N Dance on 21/05/2012 - 23:01
          +2

          Euro crisis scares investors (regardless of where they invest). Australia's currency is considered to be a trader's currency and when investors get scared they withdraw their investments causing whatever currency they invested in (these investments also include money parked into Australian banks which are among the highest interest rates around) to crash.
          That's only one of the many reasons and is a simply explanation of what's going, but that should explain things simply.

        • Ace on 21/05/2012 - 23:07

          @geoffs87 - More turmoil in Europe will probably see cash flee to the USD as a supposed safe haven meaning the AUD will drop some.

        • HereYeeHereYee on 22/05/2012 - 00:16
          -2

          I think the AUD/USD will bounce back, it always goes up and down.

          Try to not look so bleak about it, remember at one point when our dollar was at 25 USD cents? lol

        • Trance N Dance on 22/05/2012 - 00:19
          -1

          I don't think the AUD has ever gone below 50 US cents… and that was back in 2000-2001

          The lowest it's been post-GFC was just above 60 US cents (I think 62ish?). The RBA "stepped in" and bought a large amount of AUD with it's foreign currency reserves and gold stock or something to try and rise the AUD.

  • jesseboy89 on 21/05/2012 - 17:42
    +2

    For those playing at home €656 = $850 :)

    • Trance N Dance on 21/05/2012 - 17:45
      -1

      Minus fees and conversion charges that should be about $900 (unless you use something like a 28 Degrees card)

      Looking at the QANTAS website this is an impressive deal!
      Considering it's $1300+whatever CC fees there is.

      Edit:
      It's $1299.62 + $30 CC fee for the flights the OP booked ex Brisbane

  • voteoften on 21/05/2012 - 17:52

    It didn't work out very well over oct school holidays. I just played with 1 pax. Did you try booking 1 or were all of yours based on two?

  • kwchaz on 21/05/2012 - 17:53

    Tried 13/10 to 21/10 - no go. Seems certain weeks are still classed as high season. Nice try though. :(

  • Michalek on 21/05/2012 - 17:56
    -1

    That is an insane price. Just waiting for a mate to get back to me - Could be going for a couple of weeks :)

  • chloden on 21/05/2012 - 17:59

    I see that price, but it says with taxes and fees €1343

    • jesseboy89 on 21/05/2012 - 18:07
      +2

      total sum of two people.

  • scheps on 21/05/2012 - 18:02

    beginning of october i got the same price as above.

    • voteoften on 21/05/2012 - 18:03

      which above the 1343 euro?

      • scheps on 21/05/2012 - 18:36

        1343…. sorry..

  • voteoften on 21/05/2012 - 18:02
    +29

    Maybe everyone can book the same dates as the OP and turn the flights into OzB charters. God help the flight attendants if that were ever to happen. People would be trying to price match Singapoiore airport duty free prices with the qantas inflight duty free sales, etc etc etc

  • jackofspade on 21/05/2012 - 18:08
    +7

    Nice bargain. I recommend you pick QF11/QF12 for a380.

    • Fishy on 21/05/2012 - 21:05

      We are going to LAX on Aug 24 on QF11. Everybody is quite excited about going on A380.

      Unfortunately Qantas just changed it to 747.

      I did a bit of search and found they now use 747 on QF11 on some Fridays. If you guys wanna fly on Friday, you might want to double check.

      • TrendyTim on 22/05/2012 - 10:39

        I did the A380 in feb/march on QF93/94 i was hyped (wanted to fly one since they were announced), but i was underwhelmed (sure its better than 747) but i prefer V Australia over all (not to mention transfers are much easier with VA).

  • voteoften on 21/05/2012 - 18:18
    +4

    It would be great if adioso could pick up this sort of disparity.

  • BenTennyson on 21/05/2012 - 18:18

    I'm only receiving approximately $850 for one way (roughly €1343 return) for the multiple searches I've made.

    EDIT: Nevermind, misunderstood the site.

  • Ultraman on 21/05/2012 - 18:18

    Now that's a bargain!

  • chickenchipsgravy on 21/05/2012 - 18:21

    sensational find - big ups for you !!!!

  • xeri on 21/05/2012 - 18:23
    +5

    We have to go through the European to book our own carriers to go to the US.
    Sigh what has the world come to….

    • Cluster on 21/05/2012 - 18:42
      +2

      It's a clever way of avoiding the Australian gouge, where we get charged more for airfares just because we live here. Try pricing AU-USA flights from American and then Australian sites for the same flight. Huge difference sometimes.

      • xeri on 22/05/2012 - 09:34

        i know was merely being sarcastic :P

        been an ozbargainer long enough!

  • chuneeperformance on 21/05/2012 - 18:28

    omg…. impulse holiday!

  • joeysarsenal on 21/05/2012 - 18:30

    the dates i found seemed normal, anyone want to give examples of the dates they booked?

  • humdogg on 21/05/2012 - 18:30

    Such a great post op. really gives a lot to the community as a lot of people may look for cheap flights.. I dunno how many are doing it on an Irish site!! Kudos.

    • Trance N Dance on 21/05/2012 - 18:36
      +1

      That's a very good point.

      @randompunter
      What made you look on the Irish site in the first place?!

    • jesseboy89 on 21/05/2012 - 18:41
      +1

      obviously you didn't read the OP.

  • Dr.Tenma on 21/05/2012 - 18:43
    +6

    where is lax?

    • UFO on 21/05/2012 - 18:54
      +1

      Dude… LAX = LA Airport ;).

      • montorola on 21/05/2012 - 19:01
        +8

        Now what's the LA stand for? :P

    • SBOB on 21/05/2012 - 18:58
      +11

      I believe it is somewhere near "your google skills"…

  • whatovit on 21/05/2012 - 18:47

    Does anyone know how long this sale will be for?
    Heading to south america and it'll be cheaper to go through LA. But haven't got funds to pay for it atm.

      • dkmvs_com on 21/05/2012 - 20:27
        +8

        dick move guy. Thanks for sharing a month ago :(

      • geoffs87 on 21/05/2012 - 22:57

        I bought flghts a good year back from expedia.ie, doesnt mean i got a sale price, also doesnt mean it was part of this sale… where the eff is your logic?

  • VeganJerky on 21/05/2012 - 18:47

    not working for me? Maybe it's Chrome?

    I get to the page that show's different prices for airlines, but it doesn't show specific flights.

  • bigsarg7 on 21/05/2012 - 18:58

    I got the titled price, 2 weeks from end of November to start of December. Very tempted!

  • jvisaac on 21/05/2012 - 19:08
    +4

    how did you find this? irish site for a aus to usa flight? just curious. cheers for sharing.

  • zango_tango_007 on 21/05/2012 - 19:09

    does anyone know a good site to book flights between US cities, looking to go NY??
    BTW, thanks a lot op, booked a flight. dam you ozbargain…making me offers that i can not refuse …lol !!

    • jackofspade on 21/05/2012 - 20:07

      SYD to NY for 850euro or $1100aud is very tempting.

    • dkmvs_com on 21/05/2012 - 20:29

      I use www.kayak.com. It doesn't get every airline but does do most.

    • twitch1979 on 22/05/2012 - 08:07

      when I travelled in the US hands down the best airline for domestic was Soutwest http://www.southwest.com/

      They do not charge extra for a bags and should you need to cancel your booking for any reason they credit you in full and you can then use that credit to book another flight with them.

      This was very handy in making alterations to your journey once you are state side.

  • maryrose on 21/05/2012 - 19:19

    Gotta be one of the best bargain finds all year. well done

  • montorola on 21/05/2012 - 19:27

    Ugh, so damn tempting!! Someone please buy the tickets so it's sold out for me. I'm really considering it, and I haven't even gone on my singapore trip yet!! Damn you ozbargain! lol

    • Shaw on 21/05/2012 - 19:33

      When are you off to SG?

      • montorola on 21/05/2012 - 19:38

        June 13th, from that scoot deal earlier

        • Shaw on 21/05/2012 - 19:40

          Sweet, heading over the same day! Mrs has never flown overseas before, so thought I'd get her a trip for our 3 years, as tightarse as it is, $800 for 7 days, including accom, for 2 people is pretty sweet, and not staying in Geylang!

  • Turd on 21/05/2012 - 19:30
    +4

    Wow even plane tickets are cheaper overseas, dispite flying with an Australian carrier..

    No wonder it's so expensive to do anything in Australia!

    • tailgatinholden on 21/05/2012 - 21:16
      +6

      Alan Joyce is Irish born… hmm.

  • bindods on 21/05/2012 - 19:31
    +1

    it is a good deal, but not an all time great like the time the British were treated to LA flights for £130, now that was an all time top deal http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/amazing-flights-deal-from-uk…

    • bindods on 21/05/2012 - 19:32

      and that was on the australian expedia site, found it strange booking flights from UK in aus $ at the time

  • lostboi on 21/05/2012 - 19:32
    +1

    thanks OP!!!

    got flight 13/09 - 08/10 for €656 ($850)

  • elf888 on 21/05/2012 - 19:41
    +3

    Found it work with next year Easter! Great

    • voteoften on 21/05/2012 - 19:50

      Holy crap, really. What dates? The school holidays are different from eatser next year. What dates and what departure city?

  • moooooooo on 21/05/2012 - 19:51

    I can enter the desired dates but it fails to do anything when I click 'search'. Doesn't seem to be slow, just not doing anything. Tried with Chrome and FF. Just me, or are others experiencing problems too?

  • PreSsieGuY on 21/05/2012 - 19:51
    +2

    is this working for anyone?
    ive tried 2 different browsers and on my phone and cant get it to progress after clicking search for flights

    • moooooooo on 21/05/2012 - 19:53

      Sounds like we have the same problem.

      • PreSsieGuY on 21/05/2012 - 19:54

        maybe it has been ozbargained :(

        • moooooooo on 21/05/2012 - 19:57

          I note that when on other national Expedia sites, the 'from' and 'to' fields auto-populate, but they're not doing that on the Irish site.

        • PreSsieGuY on 21/05/2012 - 20:08

          took a while, i think you gotta keep refreshing and type in a city, then the auto populate thing would work.

        • moooooooo on 21/05/2012 - 20:16

          Working for me now! :D

  • Trance N Dance on 21/05/2012 - 19:59

    I wonder if you get FF with these.

    • Shaw on 21/05/2012 - 20:03
      +1

      Free Food?

      • Ace on 21/05/2012 - 23:38

        Frequent Flyers

  • sternocleido on 21/05/2012 - 20:02

    Thanks heaps OP - booked flights for August- 1300 euro return for the misses and I. Your a champ!
    As for FF - It asked me to enter my number, so I did! Assume I get them

    • Trance N Dance on 21/05/2012 - 20:32

      Not necessarily, I remember booking a flight for my uncle on one of these sights, you can put in a FF number but he never got the points, he rang up the airline to check and they gave them to him anyway (can't remember what airline it was, he's been over a few times and on a different airline each time…)

  • allegiance86 on 21/05/2012 - 20:03

    Prices are totally different for me :(

    edit:December dates cause it to rise

  • cashless on 21/05/2012 - 20:10
    +4

    Good one OP, booked 2 adults/2 kids return for 2 weeks in November
    Total price AU$3000 - amazing!
    Got a phone call from c/card issuer too (bankwest) - just checking dodgy large amounts going to ireland (trying to bail them out of euro trouble).

    See you fellow ozber's in duty free!

    • lukelegend on 21/05/2012 - 20:16

      what dates did you book?

      • cashless on 21/05/2012 - 21:41

        heading off mid Nov, back on 30th

  • Matt P on 21/05/2012 - 20:18

    big +'s to the OP

    also don't buy booze duty free in the states, its dearer than the grog shops

    • danyool on 21/05/2012 - 23:58
      +1

      But still heaps cheaper than here!! eg at LAX Virgin termainal (forget number) even though they only have 1 TINY duty free store i noticed 1L spirits; Absolut, Jack, Baileys, etc was about US$25 ea.(a month ago) I'm not a drinker, but that was a bargain when you consider 700ml is more than that here. Can bring back 2.2l

  • CheapCoffee on 21/05/2012 - 20:20

    It says Only "3 tickets left at this price!" right now.

    Should make your decisions ASAP. Unfortunately, I would be doing my lovely uni exams while some of you have a lovely holiday at LA…

  • VeganJerky on 21/05/2012 - 20:22

    Damn, booked flights to LAX just last week. This deal is almost too good to be true.

    Can anybody see a catch to this???

  • simong on 21/05/2012 - 20:26

    Once you have put in your Qantas FF, and paid check if it appears on your Qantas Account, it should.. Then you can choose seats if you have status etc..

  • quackster on 21/05/2012 - 20:37

    Theres also flights to New York for $1100!

    • quackster on 21/05/2012 - 20:41
      +2

      And you would earn 19,894 frequent flyer points, worth at least $125 if you were to convert to gift cards.

  • [Deactivated] on 21/05/2012 - 20:39

    Are these booked into sale buckets?

  • starski304 on 21/05/2012 - 20:40

    Wow that's really cheap, tempted. I just plugged in dates and it came up for three people for $900 return on an A380. Cant get any better than that.

    Hmmm…

    • voteoften on 21/05/2012 - 20:57

      That is per head, yes?

      • Ace on 21/05/2012 - 23:40

        Gotta be

  • Trance N Dance on 21/05/2012 - 20:42

    So tempted to go to America now…. So… Tempted… Must resist urge!

    • Bargainz on 21/05/2012 - 23:18
      -2

      Why? GFC MK2 is about to hit, id rather stay at home

      • Trance N Dance on 21/05/2012 - 23:50
        +1

        1. They've been saying that for years… Not to mention apparently we're still in the first one. So yeah what ever.

        2. Cause some people are in the fortunate position to be able to travel? Sure the dollar's gonna tank it but at 95 US cents per Aussie dollar is still a good rate! Especially considering how cheap things are in America (ever the more reason to have CHEAPER stuff in America because of the financial issues!)

        3. Assuming you have the money to travel, economic condition shouldn't affect your ability to travel unless you're looking at financial hardship. ie Possibility of loosing a job or massive loss of money (that's the only two reasons I can think of actually)

        4. The airfare is cheap, and the rate is still relatively high (seriously people those who are complaining that sub-parity is low get your heads out of your arse and stop being spoilt) cause the day America gets back on it's horse it's gonna drop (until China gets back on its horse and our dollar rises again). Once the markets are back to pre-GFC levels we'll see our dollar around parity but nothing like what we've seen in the past few years of 105-110.

  • voteoften on 21/05/2012 - 20:42

    I am having a hard time using this site. Is there a trick with playing around with the dates whereby I can see if I change the outgoing date, the prices changes this much. This crap where you just get a price for a RT ticket sux because you dont know which date will make a difference.

    Has anyone tried any other Irish sites to see if they are more workable?

  • Gavman on 21/05/2012 - 20:42
    +1

    is there way to find out whaat dates attached 600euro flight? all im getting is 1300euro!

    • Cluster on 21/05/2012 - 21:27

      Tried MEL-LAX on 7 March to 21 March. AU$840. ADL-LAX was $1050 for the same dates. Approx currency conversion.

  • roadeh on 21/05/2012 - 20:43

    Many thanks OP, been looking for a trip to Canada next year and was getting $2500-3500 for this sort of trip, just bagged a return flight to Calgary for a total of $1350.. muchos gracias!

    Haven't read all comments but this was for Feb 2013 so its working further than the OP implied

  • jvisaac on 21/05/2012 - 20:44

    how do i add baggage? or is it included?

    • sternocleido on 21/05/2012 - 20:47

      included - 2 checked pieces (23kg each) + carry on!

      • jvisaac on 21/05/2012 - 20:47

        wow really!? where does it say that? thanks btw

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