vancouver to sydney

I'm planning on going in mid-december for about a month. Any thoughts on
getting cheap airfare?

First thought ....... Its a good idea

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I'm planning on going in mid-december for about a month. Any thoughts on
getting cheap airfare?

sirstew wrote:
I'm planning on going in mid-december for about a month. Any thoughts
on getting cheap airfare?

Have a look and see if JAL are offering any specials. They used to do good
ones on that route (have to go via narita).

Failing that, do some net searches, see if anyone's doing good prices.


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On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 08:15:41 -0500, "sirstew" wrote:

I'm planning on going in mid-december for about a month. Any thoughts on
getting cheap airfare?

Dunno about timing but last year June/July I flew return
SYD-YVR-SYD with China Airlines booked through STA and the fare was
some AUD1,600 compared with AUD2,500 offered by Flight Centre.

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Keith Sayers wrote:
On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 08:15:41 -0500, "sirstew" wrote:

I'm planning on going in mid-december for about a month. Any
thoughts on getting cheap airfare?

Dunno about timing but last year June/July I flew return
SYD-YVR-SYD with China Airlines booked through STA and the fare was
some AUD1,600 compared with AUD2,500 offered by Flight Centre.

Flight centre is not cheap. I was rather pleased with the prices available
on Travel.com.au recently, got cbr-syd-lax-US City-Lax-mel-cbr in December
for just a shade over $2 grand. I priced Flight centre and hurriedly
returned to travel.com.au! They were even cheaper than Qantas, although the
prices on the Qantas site weren't bad.

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On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 08:15:41 -0500, "sirstew" wrote:

I'm planning on going in mid-december for about a month. Any thoughts on
getting cheap airfare?


Good idea if you can !! Will be cheaper that way (:-))

On Sat, 02 Sep 2006 01:06:01 +0800, wrote:

On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 08:15:41 -0500, "sirstew" wrote:

I'm planning on going in mid-december for about a month. Any thoughts on
getting cheap airfare?


Good idea if you can !! Will be cheaper that way (:-))

Just booked a flight Vancouver to Sydney Oct 21 - Nov 23 and the
cheapest was Air Canada out of Vancouver. Gave us a free stop over in
Hawaii also and the total length of trip was shorter than going
through LA

cheers

sirstew wrote:
I'm planning on going in mid-december for about a month. Any thoughts on
getting cheap airfare?



Try to avoid going through the USA. Right now the USA is so fixated with
security that the TSA Safety Stazi will go through your checked baggage
and make a total mess of it - and then leave an official notice stating
they they legally did that. No effort is made to keep any of your items
in and semblance of order: cookies are crushed, bicycle tools are mixed
up with books, etc...


If you fly from Vancouver try to bypass the USA (even Hawaii). I
understand that folks going through Japan, Hong Kong etc don't have to
put up with such searches and STILL have safe travel.


Ken, Canada

Ken Pisichko wrote:

Try to avoid going through the USA. Right now the USA is so fixated
with security that the TSA Safety Stazi will go through your checked
baggage and make a total mess of it - and then leave an official
notice stating they they legally did that. No effort is made to keep
any of your items in and semblance of order: cookies are crushed,
bicycle tools are mixed up with books, etc...

They've been doing that for the last few years. There NO point in carefully
packing, wedging, wrapping things. tehy seem to go to some trouble to jumble
everything up. The damage done to stuff is amazing, it's like they and the
baggage handlers are in league against the contents of your luggage.


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Fact - never wrap prezzies etc when travelling internationally.
That has been the 'rule' for many, many years, most likely more than
you have been on this planet.

Please don't (try to) pass your silly notions as "Fact"s! There is no
such "Fact" and no such "'rule'" for any noteable length of time. Quite
the contrary, "most likely more than you have been on this planet"
wrapping has been *neccessary* for obvious reasons.

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