• Melb to Honolulu business class?

    From lindsay@3:633/280.2 to All on Tue Jan 23 19:37:26 2024
    Does anyone else besides Jetstar offer non-stop return flights, business
    class from Melburg to Honolulu??
    Cheers..

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  • From Daryl@3:633/280.2 to All on Tue Jan 23 20:05:42 2024
    On 23/1/2024 7:37 pm, lindsay wrote:
    Does anyone else besides Jetstar offer non-stop return flights, business class from Melburg to Honolulu??
    Cheers..


    Qantas.
    American Airlines.
    Philippine Airlines
    Air Canada

    I just put the details into Flightcentre and came up with quite a few
    options.
    I was recently looking for Melb London return for around late April
    early May and noticed that prices seem to have dropped quite a bit.

    --
    Daryl


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  • From lindsay@3:633/280.2 to All on Tue Jan 23 21:29:18 2024
    On 23/01/2024 8:05 pm, Daryl wrote:
    On 23/1/2024 7:37 pm, lindsay wrote:
    Does anyone else besides Jetstar offer non-stop return flights,
    business class from Melburg to Honolulu??
    Cheers..


    Qantas.

    I looked and couldnt see any...

    American Airlines.
    Philippine Airlines
    Air Canada

    Didnt think of these. I tried United and Air NZ...

    Jetstars business class is certainly 'cheap' but from what I've seen on youtube, its too cheap. Prepared to pay a bit more for a bit more comfort...

    Wife just caught me looking, and said, and i quote:" i'm not buying
    airfares till we come back from the NZ cruise". I may hold her to that.
    Seems like she thinks she's paying. Who am i to dissapoint? :-D


    I just put the details into Flightcentre and came up with quite a few options.

    Thanks for that. I'll take a look.

    I was recently looking for Melb London return for around late April
    early May and noticed that prices seem to have dropped quite a bit.

    Was looking at Hawaii around the same time. Maybe May-June

    I must admit, I expected the airfaires to be higher. I no complain. :-)

    Cheers.



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  • From Daryl@3:633/280.2 to All on Tue Jan 23 22:21:41 2024
    On 23/1/2024 9:29 pm, lindsay wrote:
    On 23/01/2024 8:05 pm, Daryl wrote:
    On 23/1/2024 7:37 pm, lindsay wrote:
    Does anyone else besides Jetstar offer non-stop return flights,
    business class from Melburg to Honolulu??
    Cheers..


    Qantas.

    I looked and couldnt see any...

    American Airlines.
    Philippine Airlines
    Air Canada

    Didnt think of these. I tried United and Air NZ...

    Jetstars business class is certainly 'cheap' but from what I've seen on youtube, its too cheap. Prepared to pay a bit more for a bit more
    comfort...

    Wife just caught me looking, and said, and i quote:" i'm not buying
    airfares till we come back from the NZ cruise". I may hold her to that. Seems like she thinks she's paying. Who am i to dissapoint? :-D


    I just put the details into Flightcentre and came up with quite a few
    options.

    Thanks for that. I'll take a look.

    I generally search on either Flightcentre, Skyscanner or Expedia.
    There are lots of other sites that also search all airlines.
    My first big OS trip in 2014 was organised via Flight Centre and the
    whole trip went 100% to plan, trip to the UK in 2016 was via Skyscanner
    and it was also without any hassle.
    Expedia web site seems to be the best for checking out multi stop
    flights such as what we are planning mid this year.
    Its also worth checking premium economy prices, son has flown Qantas
    premium economy on long haul flights and said that it was nearly as good
    as business class, apparently PE varies quite a lot airline to airline
    so you need to do your homework.


    --
    Daryl


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  • From Petzl@3:633/280.2 to All on Wed Jan 24 13:13:23 2024
    On Tue, 23 Jan 2024 19:37:26 +1100, lindsay
    <nope@nunnya.business.com.au> wrote:

    Does anyone else besides Jetstar offer non-stop return flights, business >class from Melburg to Honolulu??
    Cheers..

    I use (select packages for cheapest airfares) <https://www.wotif.com/?pwaLob=wizard-package-pwa>
    --
    Petzl
    Good lawyers know the law
    Great lawyers know the judge

    justice is open to all; like the Ritz hotel
    High Court reveals every current judge is a
    member of Qantas’ ‘most exclusive club in Australia’
    The High Court has exposed secret members of Qantas’
    exclusive Chairman’s Lounge amid a landmark case over
    the sacking of 1700 workers.

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  • From lindsay@3:633/280.2 to All on Sun Feb 4 09:26:04 2024
    On 23/01/2024 10:21 pm, Daryl wrote:
    On 23/1/2024 9:29 pm, lindsay wrote:
    On 23/01/2024 8:05 pm, Daryl wrote:
    On 23/1/2024 7:37 pm, lindsay wrote:
    Does anyone else besides Jetstar offer non-stop return flights,
    business class from Melburg to Honolulu??
    Cheers..


    Qantas.

    I looked and couldnt see any...

    Dont know if Qantas do direct to Honolulu from Melb, but after some
    thought, i think we'll do a bigger holiday. Always had Cape Canaveral on
    my bucket list, also want to go to Oklahoma/Kansas/Tornado valley, head
    over to Seattle via Wyoming, jump on a cruise ship and check out the ice
    in Canada, and perhaps stay onboard back to Sydney via Hawaii.... it's
    early days, buy methinks a travel agent is going to be required. :-)

    get locked up with the wife for 13 days shortly, see how we go after
    that! :-D

    Thanks for the advice below...


    American Airlines.
    Philippine Airlines
    Air Canada

    Didnt think of these. I tried United and Air NZ...

    Jetstars business class is certainly 'cheap' but from what I've seen
    on youtube, its too cheap. Prepared to pay a bit more for a bit more
    comfort...

    Wife just caught me looking, and said, and i quote:" i'm not buying
    airfares till we come back from the NZ cruise". I may hold her to
    that. Seems like she thinks she's paying. Who am i to dissapoint? :-D


    I just put the details into Flightcentre and came up with quite a few
    options.

    Thanks for that. I'll take a look.

    I generally search on either Flightcentre, Skyscanner or Expedia.
    There are lots of other sites that also search all airlines.
    My first big OS trip in 2014 was organised via Flight Centre and the
    whole trip went 100% to plan, trip to the UK in 2016 was via Skyscanner
    and it was also without any hassle.
    Expedia web site seems to be the best for checking out multi stop
    flights such as what we are planning mid this year.
    Its also worth checking premium economy prices, son has flown Qantas
    premium economy on long haul flights and said that it was nearly as good
    as business class, apparently PE varies quite a lot airline to airline
    so you need to do your homework.




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  • From lindsay@3:633/280.2 to All on Sun Feb 4 09:38:11 2024
    On 24/01/2024 1:13 pm, Petzl wrote:
    On Tue, 23 Jan 2024 19:37:26 +1100, lindsay
    <nope@nunnya.business.com.au> wrote:

    Does anyone else besides Jetstar offer non-stop return flights, business
    class from Melburg to Honolulu??
    Cheers..

    I use (select packages for cheapest airfares) <https://www.wotif.com/?pwaLob=wizard-package-pwa>

    thanks.


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  • From Daryl@3:633/280.2 to All on Sun Feb 4 12:15:24 2024
    On 4/2/2024 9:26 am, lindsay wrote:
    On 23/01/2024 10:21 pm, Daryl wrote:
    On 23/1/2024 9:29 pm, lindsay wrote:
    On 23/01/2024 8:05 pm, Daryl wrote:
    On 23/1/2024 7:37 pm, lindsay wrote:
    Does anyone else besides Jetstar offer non-stop return flights,
    business class from Melburg to Honolulu??
    Cheers..


    Qantas.

    I looked and couldnt see any...

    Dont know if Qantas do direct to Honolulu from Melb, but after some
    thought, i think we'll do a bigger holiday. Always had Cape Canaveral on
    my bucket list, also want to go to Oklahoma/Kansas/Tornado valley, head
    over to Seattle via Wyoming, jump on a cruise ship and check out the ice
    in Canada, and perhaps stay onboard back to Sydney via Hawaii.... it's
    early days, buy methinks a travel agent is going to be required. :-)

    Good idea, Flightcentre did a very good job of organizing our first big
    OS trip in 2014.
    Friends are going to Hawaii in May and they are flying Qantas but via Syd.


    get locked up with the wife for 13 days shortly, see how we go after
    that! :-D

    LOL, good luck:-)

    Thanks for the advice below...

    No problem.

    --
    Daryl


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  • From keithr0@3:633/280.2 to All on Mon Feb 12 17:52:45 2024
    On 4/02/2024 8:26 am, lindsay wrote:
    On 23/01/2024 10:21 pm, Daryl wrote:
    On 23/1/2024 9:29 pm, lindsay wrote:
    On 23/01/2024 8:05 pm, Daryl wrote:
    On 23/1/2024 7:37 pm, lindsay wrote:
    Does anyone else besides Jetstar offer non-stop return flights,
    business class from Melburg to Honolulu??
    Cheers..


    Qantas.

    I looked and couldnt see any...

    Dont know if Qantas do direct to Honolulu from Melb, but after some
    thought, i think we'll do a bigger holiday. Always had Cape Canaveral on
    my bucket list, also want to go to Oklahoma/Kansas/Tornado valley, head
    over to Seattle via Wyoming, jump on a cruise ship and check out the ice
    in Canada, and perhaps stay onboard back to Sydney via Hawaii.... it's
    early days, buy methinks a travel agent is going to be required. :-)

    get locked up with the wife for 13 days shortly, see how we go after
    that! :-D

    If you're looking for a road trip including KSC and Seattle, it's going
    to be a long one, that's just about as far as you can drive in the US. I enjoyed KSC when I went there 20 years ago and I'll be there in April,
    We're staying on Merritt Island so hopefully we'll se a launch. (I must remember to ask how many Amegas they have there :) ). If you want to go
    there first Orlando is the place to fly into, it's only about an hours
    drive away. Key West is another good place to visit on Florida, it's a
    fair drive though down the Florida keys.

    If you want to start in Seattle, you could go via Honolulu, the
    immigration people there are actually friendly not like the arseholes at
    LAX (in fact avoid LAX if you can, it's a shithole). There's a fair
    amount of aviation stuff in Seattle, the Boeing museum of flight (one of
    the top air museums in the world), a tour of the Boeing factory in
    Everett (about 1 hour north), Flying Heritage & Combat Armor Museum also
    at Everett, and a bit further away the Spruce Goose at McMinnville
    Oregon. There's also the Museum of Pop Culture (sounds dull but it used
    to be called the Museum of Rock and Roll) and a bunch of tourist stuff
    (they, at least used to, have old Melbourne trams there).

    There are several ways to get to Vancouver from there where you can take
    an Alaska cruise, or the Rocky Mountaineer train to Calgary. From there
    you can hire a car and drive the Icefields Parkway to Jasper on the way
    you can get to walk on the Athabasca Glacier. Then head back through
    Kamloops, and take the old Highway #1 through Hope and back to Vancouver.

    If you want any info, I may be able to help.


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  • From lindsay@3:633/280.2 to All on Mon Feb 19 18:51:32 2024
    On 12/02/2024 5:52 pm, keithr0 wrote:
    On 4/02/2024 8:26 am, lindsay wrote:
    On 23/01/2024 10:21 pm, Daryl wrote:
    On 23/1/2024 9:29 pm, lindsay wrote:
    On 23/01/2024 8:05 pm, Daryl wrote:
    On 23/1/2024 7:37 pm, lindsay wrote:
    Does anyone else besides Jetstar offer non-stop return flights,
    business class from Melburg to Honolulu??
    Cheers..


    Qantas.

    I looked and couldnt see any...

    Dont know if Qantas do direct to Honolulu from Melb, but after some
    thought, i think we'll do a bigger holiday. Always had Cape Canaveral
    on my bucket list, also want to go to Oklahoma/Kansas/Tornado valley,
    head over to Seattle via Wyoming, jump on a cruise ship and check out
    the ice in Canada, and perhaps stay onboard back to Sydney via
    Hawaii.... it's early days, buy methinks a travel agent is going to be
    required. :-)

    get locked up with the wife for 13 days shortly, see how we go after
    that! :-D

    If you're looking for a road trip including KSC and Seattle, it's going
    to be a long one, that's just about as far as you can drive in the US. I enjoyed KSC when I went there 20 years ago and I'll be there in April,
    We're staying on Merritt Island so hopefully we'll se a launch. (I must remember to ask how many Amegas they have there :) ). If you want to go there first Orlando is the place to fly into, it's only about an hours
    drive away. Key West is another good place to visit on Florida, it's a
    fair drive though down the Florida keys.


    Wow. great info.. thanks. Wife has been to the states before we got
    hooked up.. did a helo ride through the Grand Canyon which may be nice,
    but KSC, tornado Alley, and Seattle/Vancouver/ice are priorities, and
    the Pacific Air Museum and USS Missouri are also on the bucket list...

    If you want to start in Seattle, you could go via Honolulu, the
    immigration people there are actually friendly not like the arseholes at
    LAX (in fact avoid LAX if you can, it's a shithole). There's a fair
    amount of aviation stuff in Seattle, the Boeing museum of flight (one of
    the top air museums in the world), a tour of the Boeing factory in
    Everett (about 1 hour north), Flying Heritage & Combat Armor Museum also
    at Everett, and a bit further away the Spruce Goose at McMinnville
    Oregon. There's also the Museum of Pop Culture (sounds dull but it used
    to be called the Museum of Rock and Roll) and a bunch of tourist stuff (they, at least used to, have old Melbourne trams there).

    There are several ways to get to Vancouver from there where you can take
    an Alaska cruise, or the Rocky Mountaineer train to Calgary.

    My mum and dad did that one. was suggested to make sure you get the top
    floor on the train...

    From there
    you can hire a car and drive the Icefields Parkway to Jasper on the way
    you can get to walk on the Athabasca Glacier. Then head back through Kamloops, and take the old Highway #1 through Hope and back to Vancouver.

    If you want any info, I may be able to help.

    Keith, many thanks. My proposed trip is in it's infancy, but I'm sure
    I'll have plenty of questions for you when it gets off the ground, but
    it'll be a minimum of 18 months.. have a cruise to NZ next week, another
    to South Aus in November(?) and a couple of fishing trips to West Aus on
    the books.

    Cheers!



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