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V Austrailla ???
Hey everyone
I posted a message a while back about air consolidators for trip to Australia from the US (BIL, CPR, DEN, JAC, RAP, or SLC). Well in any event I have a friend that may be able to get me a free ticket on Delta to LAX or SFO. If that happens that would be great news, as I am sure that I can get a better fare to SYD from there. Well just wondering if anyone has any experience with Air New Zealand, Qunatas, or V Australia. I could also go on American or United, as well a few other Asian carriers. No experience with American for overseas flights, but did had a good experience with United from Newark to Heathrow a few months before 9/11. I very much liked the B777, as it has seat back video. Also the plane was not very full and because of that I think we got put in E+ even though we ended up with a cheap ticket, as part of a package deal. If I can get enough time off I would like to spend the night coming and going in either LAX or SFO, but I think I can only 8 or 9 days off from work, so this may put a winkle in this plan. If I can't do this please tell how much time I should allow for a connection from Delta to an international flight at one of the above listed flights, as well for a return flight back. Would I need to claim by bags and then recheck them or can I check them all the way from CPR to SYD and then the reverse. Really only concerned about the flight going, as I can always call work and tell them I was bumped from my Delta flight to SLC (I am sure they would not know anything different), but would hate to miss my flight to SYD. M.M. |
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V Austrailla ???
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... Hey everyone I posted a message a while back about air consolidators for trip to Australia from the US (BIL, CPR, DEN, JAC, RAP, or SLC). Well in any event I have a friend that may be able to get me a free ticket on Delta to LAX or SFO. If that happens that would be great news, as I am sure that I can get a better fare to SYD from there. Well just wondering if anyone has any experience with Air New Zealand, Qunatas, or V Australia. I could also go on American or United, as well a few other Asian carriers. No experience with American for overseas flights, but did had a good experience with United from Newark to Heathrow a few months before 9/11. I very much liked the B777, as it has seat back video. Also the plane was not very full and because of that I think we got put in E+ even though we ended up with a cheap ticket, as part of a package deal. If I can get enough time off I would like to spend the night coming and going in either LAX or SFO, but I think I can only 8 or 9 days off from work, so this may put a winkle in this plan. If I can't do this please tell how much time I should allow for a connection from Delta to an international flight at one of the above listed flights, as well for a return flight back. Would I need to claim by bags and then recheck them or can I check them all the way from CPR to SYD and then the reverse. Really only concerned about the flight going, as I can always call work and tell them I was bumped from my Delta flight to SLC (I am sure they would not know anything different), but would hate to miss my flight to SYD. M.M. QANTAS and United are currently the only two carriers operating Nonstop to Australia; V Australia (an affiliate of Virgin Blue) doesn't start service til the end of February/ beginning of March. And Delta doesn't start service til this summer. American doesn't fly to Australia; their flights are simply code shares on Qantas (BTW, note the spelling). Air New Zealand offers service to Sydney/Melbourne and other Australian services via Auckland, Air Pacific (Fiji) operates via Nandi, and you have a couple options via Honolulu on Hawaiian Airlines or any of a number of carriers connecting to Qantas' JetStar subsidiary - a low fare/low cost carrier. I'd allow at least two hours to connect on an international flight at LAX; Delta to Delta would be in the same terminal; as would United. Qantas has some flights out of the American airlines terminal, but not all. Qantas' 747's and A380's will be more comfortable in economy class than United's 747's (which don't have seatback video), but if you can get United's E+, you'll have decent legroom. |
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V Austrailla ???
On Jan 26, 5:22*pm, "Jeff Hacker" wrote:
wrote in message ... Hey everyone I posted a message a while back about air consolidators for trip to Australia from the US (BIL, CPR, DEN, JAC, RAP, or SLC). Well in any event I have a friend that may be able to get me a free ticket on Delta to LAX or SFO. If that happens that would be great news, as I am sure that I can get a better fare to SYD from there. Well just wondering if anyone has any experience with Air New Zealand, Qunatas, or V Australia. I could also go on American or United, as well a few other Asian carriers. No experience with American for overseas flights, but did had a good experience with United from Newark to Heathrow a few months before 9/11. I very much liked the B777, as it has seat back video. Also the plane was not very full and because of that I think we got put in E+ even though we ended up with a cheap ticket, as part of a package deal. If I can get enough time off I would like to spend the night coming and going in either LAX or SFO, but I think I can only 8 or 9 days off from work, so this may put a winkle in this plan. If I can't do this please tell how much time I should allow for a connection from Delta to an international flight at one of the above listed flights, as well for a return flight back. Would I need to claim by bags and then recheck them or can I check them all the way from CPR to SYD and then the reverse. Really only concerned about the flight going, as I can always call work and tell them I was bumped from my Delta flight to SLC (I am sure they would not know anything different), but would hate to miss my flight to SYD. M.M. QANTAS and United are currently the only two carriers operating Nonstop to Australia; V Australia (an affiliate of Virgin Blue) doesn't start service til the end of February/ beginning of March. *And Delta doesn't start service til this summer. *American doesn't fly to Australia; their flights are simply code shares on Qantas (BTW, note the spelling). *Air New Zealand offers service to Sydney/Melbourne and other Australian services via Auckland, Air Pacific (Fiji) operates via Nandi, and you have a couple options via Honolulu on Hawaiian Airlines or any of a number of carriers connecting to Qantas' JetStar subsidiary - a low fare/low cost carrier. I'd allow at least two hours to connect on an international flight at LAX; Delta to Delta would be in the same terminal; as would United. *Qantas has some flights out of the American airlines terminal, but not all. Qantas' 747's and A380's will be more comfortable in economy class than United's 747's (which don't have seatback video), but if you can get United's E+, you'll have decent legroom. Thanks I may look at going on Delta this summer. Sounds like the best bet for making a connection. M. M. |
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V Austrailla ???
On Jan 25, 2:41*pm, wrote:
Hey everyone I posted a message a while back about air consolidators for trip to Australia from the US (BIL, CPR, DEN, JAC, RAP, or SLC). Well in any event I have a friend that may be able to get me a free ticket on Delta to LAX or SFO. If that happens that would be great news, as I am sure that I can get a better fare to SYD from there. Well just wondering if anyone has any experience with Air New Zealand, Qunatas, or V Australia. I could also go on American or United, as well a few other Asian carriers. No experience with American for overseas flights, but did had a good experience with United from Newark to Heathrow a few months before 9/11. I very much liked the B777, as it has seat back video. Also the plane was not very full and because of that I think we got put in E+ even though we ended up with a cheap ticket, as part of a package deal. If I can get enough time off I would like to spend the night coming and going in either LAX or SFO, but I think I can only 8 or 9 days off from work, so this may put a winkle in this plan. If I can't do this please tell how much time I should allow for a connection from Delta to an international flight at one of the above listed flights, as well for a return flight back. Would I need to claim by bags and then recheck them or can I check them all the way from CPR to SYD and then the reverse. Really only concerned about the flight going, as I can always call work and tell them I was bumped from my Delta flight to SLC (I am sure they would not know anything different), but would hate to miss my flight to SYD. M.M. I was looking to see what my flight options with Delta would be this coming summer and it seems, as thought I would need to connection in SLC and LAX. That is okay, but when looking at the flight information from LAX to SYD I also get the following message. "Delta 17 Boeing 777 subject to government approval" What does message mean? It sounds like they need to get government approval in order to sell a ticket for this flight. M.M. |
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V Austrailla ???
On Jan 27, 10:54*pm, A Guy Called Tyketto
wrote: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 wrote: I was looking to see what my flight options with Delta would be this coming summer and it seems, as thought I would need to connection in SLC and LAX. That is okay, but when looking at the flight information from LAX to SYD I also get the following message. "Delta 17 Boeing 777 subject to government approval" What does message mean? It sounds like they need to get government approval in order to sell a ticket for this flight. M.M. * * * * IIRC, DAL hasn't secured the approvals to fly that route yet. The flight may be available on their site, but that doesn't mean that they have approval from the various governments to fly that route.. So the flight for that route is subject to approval. If they don't get it, they can't fly it. Now I guess I be finding out if they will put on another airlines' flight if they don't get approval. M.M. |
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V Austrailla ???
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Hash: SHA1 wrote: On Jan 27, 10:54?pm, A Guy Called Tyketto ? ? ? ? IIRC, DAL hasn't secured the approvals to fly that route yet. The flight may be available on their site, but that doesn't mean that they have approval from the various governments to fly that route.. So the flight for that route is subject to approval. If they don't get it, they can't fly it. Now I guess I be finding out if they will put on another airlines' flight if they don't get approval. M.M. If they don't get approval, I seriously doubt they will have an interline with another carrier. There is no Skyteam carrier with service to Australia (QFA is with OneWorld; UAL and ANZ are Star Alliance; COA is going Star Alliance this year, and HAL and VAU are on their own). I don't recall if you're flying out of LAX or SFO, but either way, DAL won't have an option without approval. BL. - -- Brad Littlejohn | Email: Unix Systems Administrator, | Web + NewsMaster, BOFH.. Smeghead! | http://www.wizard.com/~tyketto PGP: 1024D/E319F0BF 6980 AAD6 7329 E9E6 D569 F620 C819 199A E319 F0BF -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFJgVNKyBkZmuMZ8L8RAjOmAJ9YBCYaSitpiSzs5EtZqY GNH55k+gCfYoGJ Z3yXAnbpWVM94gdIMIvwzsc= =mpeZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- |
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V Austrailla ???
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... On Jan 27, 10:54 pm, A Guy Called Tyketto wrote: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 wrote: I was looking to see what my flight options with Delta would be this coming summer and it seems, as thought I would need to connection in SLC and LAX. That is okay, but when looking at the flight information from LAX to SYD I also get the following message. "Delta 17 Boeing 777 subject to government approval" What does message mean? It sounds like they need to get government approval in order to sell a ticket for this flight. M.M. IIRC, DAL hasn't secured the approvals to fly that route yet. The flight may be available on their site, but that doesn't mean that they have approval from the various governments to fly that route.. So the flight for that route is subject to approval. If they don't get it, they can't fly it. Now I guess I be finding out if they will put on another airlines' flight if they don't get approval. M.M. In this case, "government approval" is administrative only. There is an open skies treaty in effect between the U.S. and Australia which allows any airline from either country to fly to the other. Delta will be approved by the Aussies just as V Australia is/has been approved by the U.S. |
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