Barpolo

Hi there
My family want to come out and visit me in NZ next March and I was wondering if it would be best to book the flights now or leave it to see if the oil price comes down and with it (maybe) flight prices.

My family won't have the money saved until October/November....but I was wondering whether I should maybe pay for the flights now in case the price was to rise between now and October.

Does anyone think flight prices will rise between now and October?

thanks for any opinions

Barry

welshman213

Barry,

Can thelp really, but we have booked our flights to Auckland for April 2009 via the Air Newzealand website, and the price was £1800 ish, which seemed quite good compared with the other places we checked.

John

Margaret Parkinson

I booked in June for us to come for Christmas (6 weeks). The cost is £2839 it has now risen to £3001.Its dearer at Christmas) This is booking direct with Singapore Airlines. We came this year in February and we booked in July for £1812. If we had booked for the same time next year it would have been £2002 this has now risen to £2402. From what I have been told by Travel Agents Schedule flights go dearer the nearer it is to flying. I have found this to be true because I kept checking last year and all they did were go up not once did it come down. The cost of airport taxes last year was £344 This time when we booked the price it was £552 which included a fuel supplement that has that has now gone to £595.

I checked the prices with Air Newzealand & Emirates and they were similar but they have more than 1 stop.

So I think my advice would be to book as soon as you can.

June

p.s see it it would be cheaper booking at your end.

Barpolo

Thanks.

I might hold off for a few weeks and see if the price comes down a bit. Vehicle petrol has came down a bit again today so hopefully aviation fuel might do the same.

I won't bank on it though.

I am going to try and get the family on Emirates flying Direct from Glasgow to Christchurch via Dubai (missing out Heathrow is a big bonus).

thx for the responses

Barry

eddie_nz

just got tickets from heathrow to auckland 1200 for jan

thats a very good price I paid the same last year before the big fuel rises

welshman213

Forgot to say my £1800 was for 2 people.

eddie_nz

each ? together? one way?

welshman213

Thats return for 2 people, was an extra £0.50p/each if we wanted wanted to go straight to Welly.

eddie_nz

900 quid each is very good

welshman213

Still need to book Car and accomodation now.

Margaret Parkinson

Correct me if I am wrong but I checked Air Zealand & the price was very similar to Singapore Airlines. I have just had another look and its now £1919 for 2 people plus £618.40 for taxes, levies & surcharges = £2537.40 Did the £1800 include this, if does when did you book because I have been checking each airline since May and did not find anything so cheap. If it did then I have been well and truly robbed.

June

welshman213

Just checked and all in was £931 each. We booked it in the second week in July

welshman213

Just checked again, looks like the offer they were doing has expired.
They did have a few deals on the offers section and we booked through there.

Flan

Margaret -

Just looked for flights for December to Auckland on Air New Zealand - the total cost is £1809 for 2 adults and 1 infant including all taxes and surcharges. Slightly more expensive for January - but only about £50 extra per adult. Not sure why you were quoted so much?! Maybe you should double check

welshman213

I thought we had a good price!

When in Bucks you fo Flan, although Welsh, we are in Milton Keynes.