Moopere
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- Feb 10, 2010
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Hi Folks,
I'll admit right away that I've not previously tried to be the least bit inventive in my flying habits and have just eaten my dogfood (and been happy!). Since joining the forum in Feb last year my mind has expanded considerably and hence the current question which is a complete newbie question I'm sure.
First; what am I doing? I have family in MEL that I want to visit this year and also want to nip off to Fiji. Pretty flexible with date, first pick is around mid-late Sept. Want to use OneWorld and QF is the obvious choice.
I live in Perth, pretty much the cheapest paying J flight over to MEL and back circa Sep is $1481 each way ($2962 return)
Interestingly, PER-NAN on chosen days in Sep is $2550 return in J. Hmmmm.....
J tickets appear to be fully flexible, with perhaps an 80$ telephone change fee if you have to call QF.
Whats the pitfalls of me doing this?
- Fly PER-NAN in J as expected, have a lovely 6 days in Fiji then,
- Ring QF from Fiji (or maybe I can do this before leaving PER???), tell them I want to stop in MEL for 2 days, pay my 80$ phone fee
- Fly NAN-MEL in J
- Stay in hotel, say hi to family
- 2 days later fly MEL-PER in J
Obvious benefit here is that the fare difference will almost completely pay for the hotel stay when in MEL visiting family.
Aside from the slim chance of no J seats available on my days of choice, anything else obvious that I'm missing here?
I'll admit right away that I've not previously tried to be the least bit inventive in my flying habits and have just eaten my dogfood (and been happy!). Since joining the forum in Feb last year my mind has expanded considerably and hence the current question which is a complete newbie question I'm sure.
First; what am I doing? I have family in MEL that I want to visit this year and also want to nip off to Fiji. Pretty flexible with date, first pick is around mid-late Sept. Want to use OneWorld and QF is the obvious choice.
I live in Perth, pretty much the cheapest paying J flight over to MEL and back circa Sep is $1481 each way ($2962 return)
Interestingly, PER-NAN on chosen days in Sep is $2550 return in J. Hmmmm.....
J tickets appear to be fully flexible, with perhaps an 80$ telephone change fee if you have to call QF.
Whats the pitfalls of me doing this?
- Fly PER-NAN in J as expected, have a lovely 6 days in Fiji then,
- Ring QF from Fiji (or maybe I can do this before leaving PER???), tell them I want to stop in MEL for 2 days, pay my 80$ phone fee
- Fly NAN-MEL in J
- Stay in hotel, say hi to family
- 2 days later fly MEL-PER in J
Obvious benefit here is that the fare difference will almost completely pay for the hotel stay when in MEL visiting family.
Aside from the slim chance of no J seats available on my days of choice, anything else obvious that I'm missing here?