Article: The Cheapest Flights from Australia to New York

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The Cheapest Flights from Australia to New York

Want to fly from Sydney, Melbourne or Brisbane to New York on a budget? These are the cheapest ways to get to the Big Apple.

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[justinbrett]

I'm a big fan of the HNL stop, especially westbound. If I'm not flying J that's how I do it, overnight in HNL then an easy day flight home.

Not on JQ though. You can usually get pretty good prices on QF, and it's a good route to book with points.

It's going to be even better with HA in oneworld, lately I have taken a few flights with them (HNL-LAS).

 

[DTM1]

Is it correct that status will allow a pax to bring luggage when purchasing a "lite" or "no luggage" fare? I didn't think that that was the case.

 

[AFF Editor]

Is it correct that status will allow a pax to bring luggage when purchasing a "lite" or "no luggage" fare? I didn't think that that was the case.

It depends on the airline. I believe most of the US airlines allow this if you have relevant status. Obviously not Jetstar though, and there are also various exceptions with airlines such as Air New Zealand, Lufthansa, Avianca and British Airways (although they aren't really relevant here).

 

[Mischief1]

We’re having an interesting experience getting from New York to Melbourne using Q economy classic reward seats. I’m writing this from Q club in AKL.

The first battle was to find CR seats! Nothing when looking up New York to Melbourne, nothing New York to Sydney (starting to curse), I’ll try splitting the legs and look up JFK - AKL - success!. This flight gets in at 6am so we were able to get another Q reward seat booked separately on the AKl - Mel leg departing at 9am. Then about 2 months before the trip QANTAS call to say they are discontinuing the 9am service

The next Q flight is 2pm so we reluctantly decided to cop the long layover. Why are QANTAS flights to Mel out of AKL so rare?? There is another at 6.10 am but no good for the connection from New York.
So we get to the Q counter at JFK - can’t get our boarding passes for the AKL- Mel leg. The system won’t allow (presumably because check-in hadn’t yet opened) but how silly that the staff member could not override. As it turned out our baggage did go through even though we were told we would have to collect and recheck.

But for some positives, good flight from JFK (got in 45 early). Excellent service from a couple of good natured, efficient Kiwi flight attendants. Auckland airport is impressive. Modern, well organised, good facilities and cheerful staff. And a good benefit from all my credit card hacking is I linked a couple of passes to Qantas Club so at least we are waiting
in some comfort.

Hopefully we will have no issues on the AKL - Melb flight…

 

[QPProletarian]

Do they have booze in the morning at AKL Intl? Sometimes I just want to have champagne/sparkling or anything before my final flight home.

 

[CaptJCool]

going the other way round the world is also an option...

eg ADL/Per - Dubai - New York with EK vice versa (with points)

 

[Mattg]

Do they have booze in the morning at AKL Intl? Sometimes I just want to have champagne/sparkling or anything before my final flight home.

I believe they do

 

[kookaburra75]

Do they have booze in the morning at AKL Intl? Sometimes I just want to have champagne/sparkling or anything before my final flight home.

Absolutely. MrsK and I have toasted many a flight, whether in the Lounges, or even in the airport bars in the morning at AKL

 

[moa999]

Nice article. For those trying to optimise $/SC or $/TP heading further south say Panama or San Juan can also present some useful options.. then maybe an award flight to NYC.

 

[CaptJCool]

Nice article. For those trying to optimise $/SC or $/TP heading further south say Panama or San Juan can also present some useful options.. then maybe an award flight to NYC.

yes, I often wondered why more people didn't do that

from the last AFF event in Brissy, a pinboard was done, and I must say the gathering was a bit light on of folk who'd been to South America so perhaps its symptomatic of the difficulties faced in travelling around the South....