Sydney to Europe without Dubai through Singapore on Qantas!!

[casanovawa]

Yes it is and from memory in 2010 was EUR10 or less.

What i do sometimes is jsut leave the bags on the carousel if I'm only going to be transiting a city, they then get collected and stored at the airlines luggage office and i come back and collect later that day or the next... Save yourself 10 euros... Or you can just collect and pay up...

 

[Nizar]

What i do sometimes is jsut leave the bags on the carousel if I'm only going to be transiting a city, they then get collected and stored at the airlines luggage office and i come back and collect later that day or the next... Save yourself 10 euros... Or you can just collect and pay up...

Great idea... but sounds to be like its a tad risky ?

 

[turtlemichael]

What i do sometimes is jsut leave the bags on the carousel if I'm only going to be transiting a city, they then get collected and stored at the airlines luggage office and i come back and collect later that day or the next... Save yourself 10 euros..

Unless they think your carouselling luggage is suspicious and detonate it out the back of course

 

[casanovawa]

Yes the thought had crossed my mind about them doing something to it so i have asked once or twice... And the usual reply is that nothing like that would happen certainly within 24 hours... i guess any number of things could lead to a bag arriving without someone, they miss their flight, are sick on the plane and have to get taken to hospital... With the amount of bags you see in those luggage offices there would be a constant rumbling out the back if that was the case that they blew them up even in LOTFAP...

But when i arrived in Atlanta and ended up sleeping over in the airport airside, i didn't even leave the airport, just slept over night then popped out the next morning and got my luggage from United's baggage store before checking in for my next USDM flight leg... Arrived in Frankfurt for an over nighter at the end of the USDM trip and did actually ask the LH baggage people if i could leave it with them and pick up the next day and the baggage guy agreed, so that might make you feel better that you have gotten their ok...

So has worked several times for me and saved me some bucks/hassle... I don't pack anything that valuable in checked luggage anyway so not like anyone will be looking to nick it...

 

[JohnK]

Anyone think that Qantas is likely to return to Europe via SIN/BKK/HKG anytime soon?

Plus you get a free AY return flight from HEL to anywhere in Europe. Yes, free.

Clever people, those Finns.

Olympic used to do this as well for domestic flights. Went ATH-SKG in 2004 and then a return flight to LHR for AUD100.

Greeks are clever people as well. They managed to bleed the airline dry.

 

[greenfish]

I'm half way through a self booked Y class QF / AY BNE--> LHR trip with my 3 kids and won't be repeating the experience; it is too long for the kids (the HEL-->LHR leg is just painful) + we were declined access to the empty lounge in HEL (I thought we might be granted some latitude as OWE given that it appears that Finnair elites are allowed to take kids into the lounge).

The AY hard product was significantly better than QF though (I foolishly booked via Sydney for an F-lounge visit and ended up on a ghastly QF A330 with ancient AVOD) and the cabin crew too shaded the QF81 crew who were clearly having a bad day (full flight, lengthy departure delay).

The price overall was very competitive.

The QF SIN lounge, as mentioned in other threads, was fantastic.

I liked the way the AY special meals came off the trolley rather than being brought out before the trolley service - the QF staff appeared overwhelmed with all of the special meals they had to bring out.

 

[Isochronous]

Anyone think that Qantas is likely to return to Europe via SIN/BKK/HKG anytime soon?


Olympic used to do this as well for domestic flights. Went ATH-SKG in 2004 and then a return flight to LHR for AUD100.

Greeks are clever people as well. They managed to bleed the airline dry.

I wondered if introducing the A380 to SYD-HKG was a precursor to putting it on a HKG-somewhere in Europe run. But then there are also news articles from 2-3 years ago where Alan Joyce talks about hubbing in PVG for Europe flights.

 

[JohnK]

But then there are also news articles from 2-3 years ago where Alan Joyce talks about hubbing in PVG for Europe flights.

With China Southern or another Chinese carrier?

 

[FrankC]

With China Southern or another Chinese carrier?

For PVG, that would be China Eastern