Which is the best airline to fly from Australia to Bali?

[PERLHR]

Well they do more than double the travel time. Bali to me is barely further than Perth from Melbourne. I do get the attractiveness of long days in J class but my Bali trips are usually short breaks of 5 days and the JQ daytime flights make sense

I agree. Never been to Bali before and certainly did consider ex PER via SIN but in truth from PER flight can be done in not much over 3 hours and with the Jetstar max price still only around 600 dollars return kind of reckon it's worth a pop. It will.be first time on Jetstar also!!

 

[Lockyer Man]

Well they do more than double the travel time. Bali to me is barely further than Perth from Melbourne. I do get the attractiveness of long days in J class but my Bali trips are usually short breaks of 5 days and the JQ daytime flights make sense

Of course but I was referring to Bne to Bali where we have to do a double flight anyway unless we fly on Virgin which I will not do to Bali since they bumped me as a full fare paying passenger from J to economy, not even economy X, to permit 2 people to get a free upgrade. No compensation or apology from Virgin.

It was the worst level of service that I have ever found on an airline. Virgin is a real cattle class airline to Bali nowadays and they don’t even use a proper gate in Melbourne but a small one with insufficient seating for the passengers. A lot of the time in Bali they use a hard stand too so passengers have to bus to the terminal which defeats any benefit of being a J passenger both from priority and from luggage arrival perspectives.

I was just mentioning a choice for people flying from Bne and it’s a way of using KrisFlyer miles too which I have done so.

I felt that the article could have been more open about the actual levels of service that passengers receive on the different airlines mentioned in the article.

 

[Aussie_flyer]

Of course but I was referring to Bne to Bali where we have to do a double flight anyway unless we fly on Virgin which I will not do to Bali since they bumped me as a full fare paying passenger from J to economy, not even economy X, to permit 2 people to get a free upgrade. No compensation or apology from Virgin.

It was the worst level of service that I have ever found on an airline. Virgin is a real cattle class airline to Bali nowadays and they don’t even use a proper gate in Melbourne but a small one with insufficient seating for the passengers. A lot of the time in Bali they use a hard stand too so passengers have to bus to the terminal which defeats any benefit of being a J passenger both from priority and from luggage arrival perspectives.

I was just mentioning a choice for people flying from Bne and it’s a way of using KrisFlyer miles too which I have done so.

I felt that the article could have been more open about the actual levels of service that passengers receive on the different airlines mentioned in the article.

Jetstar fly BNE-DPS, some days twice a day. Or are you saying you insist on flying J only? Just book 1F on the A321neo and buy some meals and drinks.

 

[jase05]

Jetstar fly BNE-DPS, some days twice a day. Or are you saying you insist on flying J only? Just book 1F on the A321neo and buy some meals and drinks.

Many prefer to fly J only and some like me have JQ on their banned list

 

[iamsuperandrew]

Has anyone recently flown Garuda in J from MEL? keen to hear about the experience and menu/ wine list

 

[Aussie_flyer]

Many prefer to fly J only and some like me have JQ on their banned list

Well with the A321neo fleet quite beefed up now the Australia-Bali flights on JQ seem quite reliable these days. But, fair enough

 

[MEL_Traveller]

Has anyone recently flown Garuda in J from MEL? keen to hear about the experience and menu/ wine list

Here’s SYD-DPS, will be same same: