Emirates Restores Melbourne-Singapore Connection

Hopefully will start to bring some price relief especially across the Tasman, Sydney now has AirAsia and Emirates across.
 
Mainstream media keep repeating 'international air fares remain high' and so does AFF.

This may be true for business travellers jumping on a plane tomorrow to secure a US$200 million deal, but for leisure travellers who can book at least three months ahead, is it really so?

At least to Europe, if one looks around and doesn't have super tight time constraints, I've not found this to be true for J class travel. There are some good deals around. Booking the Asian return separately from say a BKK or MNL to Europe return can save money and give one good airlines with excellent on-board products, way better than EK's B777ERs. Who wants to travel in seven-across business class when one has to step over others if in a centre or window seat?
 
Melburnian1 said:
Mainstream media keep repeating 'international air fares remain high' and so does AFF.

This may be true for business travellers jumping on a plane tomorrow to secure a US$200 million deal, but for leisure travellers who can book at least three months ahead, is it really so?

At least to Europe, if one looks around and doesn't have super tight time constraints, I've not found this to be true for J class travel. There are some good deals around. Booking the Asian return separately from say a BKK or MNL to Europe return can save money and give one good airlines with excellent on-board products, way better than EK's B777ERs. Who wants to travel in seven-across business class when one has to step over others if in a centre or window seat?
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I'm currently contemplating booking CGK-FCO-CGK on EK in F for approx. $7500 for July. Damn cheap.

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Given that QF is ~5k just for SYD-CGK-SYD in J... it's almost a no-brainer.
 
AIRwin said:
Yet QR is double daily?
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I dunno, but I have zero intention of ever going anywhere near DOH even if they are twice daily (which if true must be including that weird MEL tag flight thingy where pax get to spend a night on the floor airside in MEL?)
 
The departure time of MEL bound is a real bumma, but the departure ex-SIN works well for me especially in this era of "work from home". These reflect the timings that the service was (or did?) change to immediately prior to the pandemic. Previous timings were much better 6pm/7pm MEL-SIN and 2pm SIN-MEL really were ideal for me.

One way of looking at it, is using destination time (for those ending the journey in Singapore), MEL-SIN is 00:25 departure, 08:15 arrival , which is very similar, to say SQ 227 that operates from SIN-MEL departing 00:50 MEL time, arrive at 08:15 arrival. :oops:
 
dajop said:
The departure time of MEL bound is a real bumma, but the departure ex-SIN works well for me especially in this era of "work from home". These reflect the timings that the service was (or did?) change to immediately prior to the pandemic. Previous timings were much better 6pm/7pm MEL-SIN and 2pm SIN-MEL really were ideal for me.

One way of looking at it, is using destination time (for those ending the journey in Singapore), MEL-SIN is 00:25 departure, 08:15 arrival , which is very similar, to say SQ 227 that operates from SIN-MEL departing 00:50 MEL time, arrive at 08:15 arrival. :oops:
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I agree with you, dajop, bu the MEL 0025 departure works well for me. You can have a decent feed in town and head out. It's more of a business flight, but I would also do this for leisure.
 
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Anna said:
I dunno, but I have zero intention of ever going anywhere near DOH even if they are twice daily (which if true must be including that weird MEL tag flight thingy where pax get to spend a night on the floor airside in MEL?)
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Just need to check the details when booking. But we need Emirates in Adelaide for competition.
 
Sprucegoose said:
I agree with you, dajop, bu the MEL 0025 departure works well for me. You can have a decent feed in town and head out. It's more of a business flight, but I would also do this for leisure.
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Remember thought, that's 00:25 Singapore time! (02:25 or 03:25 MEL time).

For me, it's manageable, on weekday I often have calls that go through to about 1:30am when in Australia (over summer anyway). Dinner, then calls, then head to the airport ...
 
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dajop said:
Remember thought, that's 00:25 Singapore time! (02:25 or 03:25 MEL time).

For me, it's manageable, on weekday I often have calls that go through to about 1:30am when in Australia (over summer anyway). Dinner, then calls, then head to the airport ...
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Yes, some work requires that flexibility, especially consortium work and you get people from the Americas and Europe all wanting to discuss 'as a team'

0025 suits me just fine SIN time.
 

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