Emirates booking engine behaves oddly, or is it me?

[infrequent_jim]

I am in the middle of planning a post retirement trip from Melbourne to Europe and return. When I ask the Emirates booking site for a Melbourne to Paris return In economy I get a reasonable fare of about $4000 for 2 of us. When I try to add in stopovers in Singapore and Hong Kong the fare goes up to about $38,000.

Is is this normal in your experience? Is there a way around this?

 

[Pushka]

Have you checked the routings? You've probably added additional flights if they aren't connecting airports.

To be honest I've found Emirates to be the most logical website I've ever used.

 

[docjames]

It may be defaulting to a series of one-way flights hence the massive cost escalation.

What was the exact routing?

 

[infrequent_jim]

It looks like Emirates does not have a route from Hong Kong to Melbourne, so that is probably upsetting the booking engine. Lately it has been refusing to show me flights for that sector, whereas a week ago it did.

I was looking at Melbourne to Singapore to Barcelona, then Paris to Hong Kong to Melbourne. I'm not married to Emirates, I was just checking it. If I wanted to fly Emirates for the Asia to Europe flights I could look at Jetstar or similar for the hops out of and into Melbourne.

 

[docjames]

Try BA for that routing. Does mean a transit in LHR in both directions.

 

[infrequent_jim]

Yes, BA seems a good option.

Thanks everyone.