I'm currently living in Hong Kong, and at some point next spring will probably be going to a family wedding in Sydney, so I decided to do a little online window-shopping this morning. I'm not really interested in indirect flights, I picked a pair of random dates since I'm not quite sure when the wedding is, and I'm somewhat flexible on travel class, depending on costs...
There only seem to be three airlines which do direct HKG->SYD - VS, Cathay and Quantas, and the dates I picked were out on 10/3 and back on 20/3.
Virgin will charge me HK$6617 (470 GBP) for economy, HK$9617 (682 GBP) for PE, or HK$18517 (1313 GBP) for UC.
Cathay say HK$14425 for economy, HK$32305 for business class and, well, more than that for first.
Quantas don't say anything themselves, because they don't seem to be able to handle online bookings starting in Hong Kong, but Travelocity suggests GBP 1060, GBP 2357 and GBP 3005...
So the Quantas and Cathay prices are very similar, but the Virgin prices are far far lower. I'm not complaining - really! - but I'd be interested to know if there's any obvious reason why. For those prices, I'm tempted to pay the UC rate and collect the miles and TPs - one return to maintain my silver sounds nice - for upgrades on future HKG-LHR flights
There only seem to be three airlines which do direct HKG->SYD - VS, Cathay and Quantas, and the dates I picked were out on 10/3 and back on 20/3.
Virgin will charge me HK$6617 (470 GBP) for economy, HK$9617 (682 GBP) for PE, or HK$18517 (1313 GBP) for UC.
Cathay say HK$14425 for economy, HK$32305 for business class and, well, more than that for first.
Quantas don't say anything themselves, because they don't seem to be able to handle online bookings starting in Hong Kong, but Travelocity suggests GBP 1060, GBP 2357 and GBP 3005...
So the Quantas and Cathay prices are very similar, but the Virgin prices are far far lower. I'm not complaining - really! - but I'd be interested to know if there's any obvious reason why. For those prices, I'm tempted to pay the UC rate and collect the miles and TPs - one return to maintain my silver sounds nice - for upgrades on future HKG-LHR flights
