What's The Cheapest Place to Fly to That's Classified as Overseas?

My friend would like to renew her holiday VISA and stay a bit longer in Australia but to do so she has to travel overseas for 4 days. What's the cheapest way to do this?
New Zealand? Fiji? She's currently in Brisbane and it seems a return flight (in December) to NZ is going to sting her for about $800 and that's not including accommodation for 3 nights while shes over there.

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  • +11

    Flying in December is the problem here.

  • +1

    A cheap scoot flight to Singapore?

  • +2

    You'll (she'll) need to scratch around places including NZ, Fiji, Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines. One of these will likely be the cheapest option depending on a whole range of factors.

    But, yes, December is about the worst time to fly to any of those sorts of places on the cheap.

  • +3

    Your friend should plan for the (likely) possibility that immigration is aware of this 'hack'. I feel like I saw it on Border Security maybe five years back?

    I don't remember specifics because the individual didn't have a suitcase packed full of meat (as 99% of Border Security episodes end up being).

    • +4

      Of course they are aware of the 'hack' - its literally the rules.

      His "friend" should make sure she has sufficient validiity on her passport to ensure re-entry though.

  • Denpasar Bali

    • Take a boogie board?

  • Going to be very date dependant, whether it overlaps school holidays or not puts Vanuatu in or out of the equation.

    Port Moresby might be a good choice? Personally I'd just go to flights.google.com, throw in brisbane as the exit site and look at the map.

  • What's The Cheapest Place to Fly to That's Classified as Overseas?

    Well you clearly know what is 'overseas' places, so do a search for whats cheap from your location.

  • Call up airlines and ask to be put on standby

    • +1

      This is not a thing. If a last minute seat appears the day of the flight, it will be a fully flex booking class and the most expensive option.

  • New Caledonia? Short flight from Brisbane. But yes Bali probably cheapest…

  • +7

    Tasmania

  • +2

    If theyre on a 600 (Tourist) visa, they cannot simply fly out and back in and reset the visa. See conditions 8503, 8558 on Immigration website.

  • NC and Bali I hadn’t thought of, nice work boys

  • Thanks everyone for your comments, I just found out this dumb dumb isn’t vaccinated so it’ll probably have to be NZ…

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