pshepvic
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OK, this has worked twice for me. I can't guarantee it will work for you but it is worth a shot.
The first time I flew Starclass was to Hawaii on the first ever flight from Melbourne. Apart from the 15 hour delay, it was a great trip. Fantastic staff (Merryn the cabin crew manager is the best crew member I have had on ANY flight on ANY airline!), surprisingly good food and a pleasant comfortable journey overall. This flight two of us paid $2800 each return. Not bad considering Q economy was $2200 at the time.
I've since booked two more Starclass trips.
The first is to Japan - I went to jetstar.com and found the dates & price for a return trip. I then wanted to play with the return date, so instead of putting the return details in each time, I just put one way dates from Japan in. This charges you in the local currency - Japan of course being Yen. Lo and behold, even with the credit card conversion fee, the ticket was $500 PER PERSON LESS than when I was paying it as part of a return trip in Aussie dollars! So I booked the two separate one way flights, saved us $1000 on the two tickets!
When booking more fares back to Hawaii (cheap way to get to the states in something more comfortable than economy, and more comfortable on the wallet) for June next year, I tried the same thing. Guess what? This time the tickets to Hawaii only cost $2500 per person return - $300 less than the first time we went - and not bad considering the tickets have also gone up about $100 each since they launched as well!
The trick is - you need to book on a day where the Aussie dollar is high, but Jetstar haven't adjusted their fares in the foreign location. When I booked the Japan flights, the dollar was over 100 Yen, and the Hawaii flights, it was 93 cents US. I had another look at the Hawaii option the other day - the fares from the US have now been adjusted up by about $100 USD or so, plus the dollar has dropped, so at the moment you would only save $120 per ticket. Still, for very little hassle of putting through two separate bookings instead of one, you can save a reasonable amount of $.
$120 can pay for quite a few Pina Coladas on Waikiki beach...
There is one other catch - you can only use Visa or Mastercard - they don't take Amex on the bookings made in foreign currency (even for tickets booked in US dollars!) Strange seeing as they did accept Amex for the one way tickets out of Australia.
One final tip - check availability BEFORE you book! You don't want to book the one way fare there in Aussie dollars, and then find there is nothing available coming back!
The first time I flew Starclass was to Hawaii on the first ever flight from Melbourne. Apart from the 15 hour delay, it was a great trip. Fantastic staff (Merryn the cabin crew manager is the best crew member I have had on ANY flight on ANY airline!), surprisingly good food and a pleasant comfortable journey overall. This flight two of us paid $2800 each return. Not bad considering Q economy was $2200 at the time.
I've since booked two more Starclass trips.
The first is to Japan - I went to jetstar.com and found the dates & price for a return trip. I then wanted to play with the return date, so instead of putting the return details in each time, I just put one way dates from Japan in. This charges you in the local currency - Japan of course being Yen. Lo and behold, even with the credit card conversion fee, the ticket was $500 PER PERSON LESS than when I was paying it as part of a return trip in Aussie dollars! So I booked the two separate one way flights, saved us $1000 on the two tickets!
When booking more fares back to Hawaii (cheap way to get to the states in something more comfortable than economy, and more comfortable on the wallet) for June next year, I tried the same thing. Guess what? This time the tickets to Hawaii only cost $2500 per person return - $300 less than the first time we went - and not bad considering the tickets have also gone up about $100 each since they launched as well!
The trick is - you need to book on a day where the Aussie dollar is high, but Jetstar haven't adjusted their fares in the foreign location. When I booked the Japan flights, the dollar was over 100 Yen, and the Hawaii flights, it was 93 cents US. I had another look at the Hawaii option the other day - the fares from the US have now been adjusted up by about $100 USD or so, plus the dollar has dropped, so at the moment you would only save $120 per ticket. Still, for very little hassle of putting through two separate bookings instead of one, you can save a reasonable amount of $.
$120 can pay for quite a few Pina Coladas on Waikiki beach...
There is one other catch - you can only use Visa or Mastercard - they don't take Amex on the bookings made in foreign currency (even for tickets booked in US dollars!) Strange seeing as they did accept Amex for the one way tickets out of Australia.
One final tip - check availability BEFORE you book! You don't want to book the one way fare there in Aussie dollars, and then find there is nothing available coming back!
Now we are stuck back in WHY cabin with CX or BA. 
