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London to Australia Flights Special Offer Deals

Tuesday, January 6th, 2009

Today we look at London to Australia flights after checking out deals to Hong Kong. Prices to Sydney can be found for around or just under £700 for flights the late spring / early summer period.

British Airways is offering a return to Sydney for £699 (16 Apr 09 to 15 Jun 09, book by 27 Jan 09) as part of its worldwide fare sale. Upgrades to WT+ available for £319 one-way.

Qantas is offering flights to Perth for £638, Melbourne (£690), Adelaide (£698), Darwin (£698), Sydney (£699) and Cairns (£700). (Travel 16 Apr 09 to 15 Jun 09, book by 27 Jan 09).

Emirates is pretty much matching those fares with Sydney (£696), Melbourne (£691), Brisbane (£700) and Perth (£638) available (10 Apr 09 to 10 Jul 09, book by 05 Feb 09). We also found some EK fares to Sydney on agent sites Travelocity and Opodo for £687.

Etihad has a London – Melbourne fare currently bookable for £705 and ex-Manchester for £711. Travel dates 28 Mar 09 – 02 Apr 09 and 20 Apr 09 – 15 Jun 09.

Singapore Airlines is offering fares to Sydney for £693 return via Singapore – and you can fly on the Airbus A380 all the way if you choose.

Cathay Pacific has some limited fares to Sydney in April available for £697, Virgin Atlantic also has fares under £700.

Alternatively you could also check out Air Asia X’s promo fares. London Stansted to Kuala Lumpur is available from £249 one way and onward (separate) bookings from KUL to Australia are priced as follows: Perth (from £73), Gold Coast (from £121) and Melbourne (from £125), prices all one way. Book by 18 Jan 09, travel from 11 Mar 09 – 30 Jun 09. Check our article for more info: Air Asia X

Australia is a brilliant destination for travellers and now is a great time to grab a deal.

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How To Fly On the Airbus A380

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

If you wish to try out the new Airbus A380 as a passenger you have the following options:

Singapore Airlines – the first airline to fly the A380 commercially, from Singapore to Sydney, Australia. They currently have 4 A380 aircraft in service deployed on various routes:

Singapore to Sydney – Flight SQ 221

Sydney – Singapore Flight SQ 222

London Heathrow to Singapore Flights SQ 317 / SQ 321

Singapore to London Heathrow Flights SQ 318 / SQ 322

Singapore to Tokyo Flight SQ 638

Tokyo to Singapore Flight SQ 637

This week (2nd to 8th Aug) one of the A380s has been flying on the Singapore – Beijing route ahead of the Olympic Games.

Emirates – On 1st August Emirates flew its inaugural A380 service from Dubai DXB to New York JFK. From 8th August they will fly the route as follows:

DXB to JFK Flight EK 201 (Sun / Wed / Fri)

JFK to DXB Flight EK 202 (Sun / Wed / Fri)

Emirates plans to fly the A380 on the Dubai to London Heathrow route from December 2008 and Dubai – Sydney – Auckland from February 2009.

Qantas – Are awaiting delivery of their first A380. They begin service on October 20th 2008 with flight QF 93 from Melbourne to Los Angeles. On October 24th, flight QF 11 will fly from Sydney to Los Angeles. These flights can be booked on Qantas’ website.

Qantas will deploy the A380 on its Sydney to London backbone route in 2009.

If you are based in Sydney you will be spoilt for choice on A380 options.

Next year will also see A380 deliveries to Air France and Lufthansa.

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Flying on the Singapore Airlines A380 Super Jumbo

Thursday, September 13th, 2007

The inaugural flight of the Singapore Airlines Airbus A380 ‘Super Jumbo’ will depart for Sydney, Australia from Singapore at 0800 on October 25th. The SYD-SIN return leg leaves at 1600 on October 26th.

Most of the seats have now been sold via an ebay auction which has raised US $1.3 million for charity (a few seats still remain open at time of writing). One bidder paid over US$100,000 for a Suite package while the cheapest economy seat went for only US$560.

However if you missed out on the auction, you will soon be able to experience the A380 on SIA’s Singapore – Sydney scheduled service. The aircraft will start flying on the route (daily return) from Sunday October 28th.

If you want to book, these are the following flight numbers:

Flight SQ221 SIN – SYD (departs 2030, arrives 0700 +1)

Flight SQ220 SYD – SIN (departs 0850, arrives 1345)

There will be 471 seats on board the A380 aircraft: 399 economy class seats, 60 business class seats on the upper deck and 12 first class suites.

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