Your Best Ever Flight Deal

[Foreigner]

Domestically, Virgin Sydney to Cairns for $48 each way. That was ages ago.
Internationally, Hawaiian SYD to LAS via HNL return for aud832 or so. in their business class.

 

[julesten]

My best ever

Return to London on Qantas $995.00

Also return for two $250.00 @$125.00 each to Christchurch Jetstar birthday sale

Also return for two $399.00 Bangkok Jetstar birthday sale

 

[jsd]

$0.04 for 2 pax HBA-MEL-HBA with JQ

Pretty happy with that

 

[drewbles]

Surprised no one has mentioned this (or I was one of the only people to do it)

$792AUD MEL-DOH-BRU-DOH-MEL on QR during a launch sale they had.

Most effective: $1900AUD LAX-LAS-DFW-ORD-JFK-MIA-BGI-MIA-ORD-DFW-LAS-LAX in F for around 960SC's iirc.

 

[julesten]

Are there any real good deals now????

 

[jaffa]

QF rang and offered me a one leg JFK-LON upgrade from a RTW F ticket ($8500 at the time)to the Concorde for a $400.00 add on.

Of course l took it!

 

[maggies1]

Return MEL to SIN in November 2009, $400 on EK and upgraded to business class one way for $175.
Virgin Blue Sydney to Canberra $1 each way also Sydney to Port Macquarie $1 each way with no credit card fees or taxes during a late night promotion, thanks AFF.
Maggies1

 

[samh004]

My best has probably been the BNE-MEL-SYD-NAN-SYD-MEL-BNE runs with Air Pacific, thanks to AFF. All up $1334 or so, and ranging from 360SC to 520SC.

 

[Flying Fox]

For me -

United Airlines MEL - AKL return in Y for $99.00 all inclusive (x2 for the mrs). Best part, we both got upgraded to J on the AKL - MEL sector.

 

[Misha]

I would totally fly JQ if fares were under a dollar - not any other way though

Got MEL - KUL return for $150 x 2 as two of us. Friend came down to Melbourbe for departure. Her return from Syd was more

 

[ozbeachbabe]

Went on hols in Dec 1999 when QF were running a promotion if you travelled on 5 OneWorld Airlines in a certain timeframe you would receive 100,000 bonus ff points.

At the time a business class round Australia redemption was 37,500 so you could get maybe 8 sectors for a journey up to 11,000kms (I think?) - Serfty know's exactly.

So it wasn't so much the deal I was travelling on initially but the return on investment I would get as a result when you think about the value of the entire routing in dollar terms for J class.

The routing I did which cost less than $2K was:

SYD BA SIN AY BKK CP HKG CX SIN QF DRW

It was a bit of a headslam when I logged on to QF to manage my bookings as I had half used round Oz tickets in both directions next coupled with a mixture of self funded and work flights in amongst it all in order to resume journeys here 'n' there.

 

[branners]

My friends' and family's jaws still hit the deck on this one;
MEL-JFK in late 2009 was $908 return. That was only $10 more than that fare to LAX, which means that Qantas flew me, wife and 2 kids across the US and A for five bucks each, each way!
As a point of reference, I am writing this in the JAL lounge at SFO and the shuttle from the hotel to the airport was $14 per person. That was nuts ...

 

[serfty]

37½K QFF points on any wholly domestic Australian trip of up to 11,000 kms in Business Class. Originally, there were few other limits other than returning to the origin finished the itineray.
You could fly, say, CBR-SYD-MEL-SYD-MEL-SYD ... until the 11K was used up. (or OOL-BNE-SYD-BNE ...)

Later they introduced other rules such as OOL=BNE and could only stopover at a place once or transit twice.

Also, until the later 90's there was no

to pay.

 

[Sprucegoose]

My best has probably been the BNE-MEL-SYD-NAN-SYD-MEL-BNE runs with Air Pacific, thanks to AFF. All up $1334 or so, and ranging from 360SC to 520SC.

Yes this is still one of my favourites, you even get to go to Fiji!!!

 

[Mal]

$977 return in WT+ on BA LHR-SYD.

One way was on QF in PE, and received an op-up to J for LHR-BKK, then PE BKK-SYD - I think... It may have been SIN)

(late 2009)

 

[Brisbane Flyer]

Work mate and I booked YUL-LHR return, then from Stansted to Gothenburg on Ryanair for 1p each way per person (plus 55 pounds tax each), left Stansted at 7a, returned by 4p. Grabbed a taxi from the airport, paid extra for a city tour, had lunch with a client from 11a to 1p, taxi back to airport, flew home.

Lunch cost A$500 and was v good. Fiskekrogen

 

[Joshua]

Besides the many x cent fares on LCC's, the best on QF was 9 flights (8 ticketed) on QantasLink for about $25 per flight. A cheap albeit slow way to build up status.

Of course even better is free. Not on QF though. Virgin has come to that party.

 

[bushtuckerman]

Best deal was for the wife and I a couple of years ago in the middle of the GFC. (Have to admit I didn't have too many wins during that period...and shudder when I think of what I could have done with the dough I lost on the market).

Free AirAsia fligts to KUL plus free connecting flights to coughet. Had to fork out for taxes and charges, but that was no big deal. When combined with a week in coughet at a 4* hotel for a total AU$31 that I got from Ebay, it was all pretty sweet.

I'm sure that some savy travellers have obtained great upgrades to business class or moon class or whatever, or deals worth more money, but I was pretty happy with my small win.

Cheers
Bush

 

[trooper]

Best normal fare was SYD-AKL-LAX vv on NZ late 2009 for $974... used points to upgrade both ways too...:mrgreen:

Got in on the UA "deal" LAX-SYD vv in C for AUD$1800

..and am in on the BKK-IST-GRU "deal" in C for AUD$813... :shock:

Like many of the OW flyers here I have occasionally snagged a really good "UP" fare run in the US... unfortunately NZ has savaged the points earnings on those... (at least we still get the same SC's.... for now....)

 

[Awesom Andy]

This one's probably a little different...
JQ SYD-DRW-SIN one-way for about $200. After missing the connection at DRW, JQ put us into a hotel, offered meals and a $100 voucher. In net terms, I pretty much flew for free.

Also did a SIN-HKG-SIN-AKL-CHC-AKL-SIN-HKG-SIN run last year for around $1360, over 3 separate nested bookings.