moonstone

hi all

has anyone found any reasonably priced flights back to uk for christmas??? So very expensive....

The Bloke

I think you have summed it all up in the last three words.

Jaycee1

The longer you leave it the more expensive they become unfortunately
J x

jayr

I went at Christnmas and I think paid about $2500 for a CHILD's seat. We used Q FF for two seats and paid $5k for the other two.

I wouldn't go at Christmas again.

Rosie Cheeks

I am looking at the moment, but we will go beginning of Dec and back end January. So that is cheaper I think, but even so nothing is coming in at much less than $10,000.
That is for two kids two adults.

Rosie Cheeks

Have you looked at an airline called Etihad? They have started a new route out of Sydney, apparently good prices at the moment, but what they charge around Christmas could be a different story. They are a saudi based airline, have no idea what they are like though, they may be good you never know.

jayr

It's worth checking on dates if it is possible to travel earlier.

I think UK flights increase substantially somewhere around 10 December.

TrickyTree

We (wife and I) are flying back mid December but got all our legs with FF points so only paid the taxes. From when I was looking at that time period the going rate was approx $2500 (return) with very few offers.

kez81

I booked recently for xmas we were $7000 for 2 adults and one 4 year old i thought that was a good price we expected to pay around $10,000 for that time of year we booked through klm.

try jetsabroad website they have a database which searches through all flights we did this and the klm came up cheapest we then decided to check the actually klm website and it was $300 cheaper than jetsabroad same flight two stop off but only for 2/3 hrs so not too bad.
we also willo be adding a baby to the booking when she is born so that will cost around $300 so total $7300 we checked after xmas same price but it did start to increase around the 18th of dec by about $1000 for a few weeks then went back to the price we got.
kezx

jayr

Jeez, you must fly a lot, doesn't it cost about 340,000 FF for that trhese days?

Rosie Cheeks

I have just been looking at the Air France website, seems resonable for Dec departures. Good booking site as they display the actual fares on different days, takes out alot of the guesswork. So if you are flexible either side of the dates you would like to go, you can get it for a few hundred dollars cheaper, without having to muck around putting in various dates to check out the prices. Great system.

But out of Brisbane (to singapore) it is operated by Qantas.

kez81

Just checked the air france for curiosity about $1000 dearer than what we payed but still pretty good prices

kezx

Rosie Cheeks

Thats funny, I just checked out the KLM site, they were ($16,500) $7000 more expensive!!!
That is flying out of Brisbane, I was wondering if there was something wrong with the site and that I was seeing things,I did it a second time for luck, but no the same price came up!
Are you flying out of Perth?

kez81

We must have got in at the right time then because ours was$7000 when we booked thats a fair increase glad we booked when we did!!!

my hubby had problems too actually he went in as business class than changed it from there to economy best price think its the website.

kezx

kez81

yeh we are flying from perth.