RedDragon2008

I wouldn't fly via Bangkok as the airport isn't bril. Try Cathy Pacific via HK too

bcworld

What's wrong with it?

RedDragon2008

Or fly into KUL (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) or SIN (Singapore) and then pick up an Emirates flight; might work out cheaper and then you may get your Dubai to Glasgow connection

The price rises are how the airline world works and the cheaper the ticket the less flexible it is and those prices were all the Early Bird Sales to Europe which have to be booked & ticketted by early March

RedDragon2008

Dont know Someone else has been posting on my account Wonder who that was

I cant comment on Bangkok

Margaret3

have your kids hacked your account.

Beoz

You still speak to travel agents? It's 2013.

RedDragon2008

No just someone who would not like me going to Bangkok

bcworld

Well I guess it can have some merit. Airlines excel at bad IT...that's why Dorothy was seeing those fares - they weren't the cheapest available, just what the website came up with - phoning Emirates or Singapore Airlines probably would've got a better result. Clearly Zuji etc are often able to do a better job with the available fare classes - perhaps a TA could do the same on an even smaller margin?

fish.01

Disagree. If, for example, reverse airfares did roughly match at 2% of an average salary in each country and then the currency exchange nose dived in one of the countries they happened to fly to...why should they reduce the airfares in the country whose currency didn't collapse to 1% of average salary and leave them at 2% in the country that did collapse just because of exchange rate changes. Why should the collapse of one particular foreign currency make airfares super cheap in the economy that didn't have a currency collapse. Should every country flying into the UK suddenly reduce their airfares to super cheap when the pound dropped. And raise them when the Yen strengthened, and drop them again against the RMB and raise them again against....

Dorothy

There's also the added benefit of the TA dealing with any problems that crop up with the holiday. For example, when my dad was dying I was due to fly home on JAL from Perth to Tokyo-Tokyo to Detroit then commuter flight from Detroit to Toronto. 3 days before I was due to fly out the commuter airline decided that they were not going to be flying the DTW-YYZ route anymore, which would have left me stranded. The travel agent not only managed to get me new flights (with QANTAS), but I ended up saving money. I'm not sure what strings he pulled either, but all the way from PER to YYZ I was offered an entire row of seats to myself. Same coming home, except the LAX-SYD leg, where there was an empty seat between me and my rowmate. The rest of the flight was full.

If I can get the same price as what I can find online through my agent then why wouldn't I? It keeps someone in a job and I have the added benefit of someone to take care of issues should they arise.

Dorothy

Ok, I've just done this. The best prices I could find PER-TXL, BUD-PER was $2072. However, by looking at Jetstar to Singapore and Luftansa for the rest of the flights the total cost was $1256. Even with paying extra for baggage allowance on Jetstar I still save $750!

Thanks for that.

raven

managed to get flights for $3777 flying malaysia to london. pretty good deal me thinks

raven

here here someone talking sense at last:

Beoz

Or another way of looking at it. UK to Ethiopia.

Can't imagine the Ethiopians are going to be able to afford to pay the same price as the Brits would for the same trip. Therefore to avoid empty flights back to the UK the airlines would have to price the flights in accordance with what Ethiopians can afford.

Software companies do it all the time. Is iTunes going to charge the same price in the US as they would in India to download a tune ..... or better put are Apple going to reduce the US price to that of the Indian price. .... unlikely. Are Apple going to try and sell tunes in India - of course there are a billion of them.

Beoz

I hope that's not for one of you