Europe Return: Auckland to Rome $1079, Paris $1118, Amsterdam $1131, London $1321 on China Southern @ Beat That Flight

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  fatboyj on 29/09/2023 - 14:29

  Yep amazing price to UK. So I'm guessing CS only fly out of Auckland?

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    Associatedbeatthatflight @ Beat That Flight on 29/09/2023 - 14:35

    yeah, as far as I can tell :/ But if you can get a cheap jq/nz flight up, then you're away smiling!

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    Everettpsycho on 29/09/2023 - 14:50

    +2

    Christchurch flights should be resuming soon I think. Pretty sure I read somewhere they were coming back in November.

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      Associatedbeatthatflight @ Beat That Flight on 29/09/2023 - 14:52

      +1

      Ooh, you are correct, November 10!
      https://newsline.ccc.govt.nz/news/story/christchurch-airport…

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      fatboyj on 29/09/2023 - 15:17

      Excellent! I'm looking at going next year March so will keep a good lookout for bargain airfares from here in Chch.

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  Juju123 on 29/09/2023 - 17:12

  Thanks OP. We are looking at flying to Europe December 2024, when is the best time for us to start looking at tickets?

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    Associatedbeatthatflight @ Beat That Flight on 29/09/2023 - 17:34

    +3

    I mean for Christmas, normally ASAP. However most booking systems don't get updated with tickets until max 366 days beforehand, so I wouldn't start looking towards the end of the year. Might be worth looking at same dates but for 2023 at present, so you get an idea of what's good.

    Note that generally there aren't big sales for Christmas as they're so in demand anyway, but if you're able to fly before around the 12-15th December / after January 8th, the prices often reduce quite a bit.

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      Juju123 on 30/09/2023 - 08:37

      Thank you!

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  milque toastie on 30/09/2023 - 16:22

  Wow, great prices. Wish I could kick off and take advantage of them…but too many potential plans for 2024. OP, just wondering do you know of any deals to seattle late march/early april 2024? Trying to find a way there that doesn't break the bank is proving tricky

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    Associatedbeatthatflight @ Beat That Flight on 30/09/2023 - 22:51

    +1

    The issue there is Easter. I think Easter is 31 March next year, so that plus school holidays = pain on prices.

    From personal experience travelling to Seattle, you're best off not looking for flights to Seattle. Focus on a cheap flight that gets you to the continent. Doesn't matter if San Francisco, or Los Angeles, or maybe Vancouver (although Canadian taxes are annoying for departure, you can get a cheap bus ride down to Seattle).

    There are so many low cost carriers in the US, that once you have figured how to get to the continent, then look for a cheap return trip from the other city to Seattle. My top tip: look at both economy and 'business/first'. I once paid $9 more for a '1st' class flight from Portland via Seattle to Vancouver. What that meant in practice was a personalised safety briefing as I was the only one up front, and an orange juice while nobody else on the plane got anything. Most of their point end classes aren't much to look at, but what it also included was lounge access, and I made good use of that :D

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      milque toastie on 01/10/2023 - 22:05

      Thanks so much for the detailed reply! Yeah, I have been considering Vancouver as it could be a nice to spend a couple of days in Canada too - hadn't heard about the departure tax for Canada though? I had looked into their ETA and it seemed reasonable, and the bus down to Seattle looked quite reasonable too.

      Great tip on the economy + business seats, thanks, I will look into that. Would be awesome if we could fly back from NY or something like that, but Seattle > NY seems a bit pricey. I'll keep investigating!

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        Associatedbeatthatflight @ Beat That Flight on 01/10/2023 - 22:19

        Apologies, it was late when I wrote it, I meant they (the airports) charge airlines more to take off than American airports. So it's often cheaper if flying from Vancouver to Toronto, say, to bus down to Seattle, fly to like Buffalo and bus back up. It's ridiculous. ETA + ESTA aren't too bad though, thankfully. And ESTA is valid for 2 years, last I checked. (I lived in Vancouver for a year and was cranky at the flights prices, so when I finished up there I bus/trained from west coast to east coast).

        Also consider a flight back from NY to like Vegas, if that appeals, there are often cheap flights because the city wants to encourage you in.

        Sorry, probably too much. Oh the bus down from Vancouver to Seattle - if you do it, check if Megabus is still going cross-borders, they're often even cheaper than Greyhound. You have to still step off and go through passport control at the border, which can be quite an experience - some girl on our bus one time walked offsite to 'look for a bathroom' and suddenly our entire busload was hands up, against wall, all individually patted down!

        Anyway, good luck with the investigations!

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  coach on 01/10/2023 - 17:08

  Is it save to fly through them or are they going to kidnap you the moment NZ-CN relations sour, like they did with the two Canadian Michaels.

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  mycomputer on 02/10/2023 - 10:01

  Hey @beatthatflight !
  Can you help me by finding any good deals in November departing Christchurch to either London/Paris or Rome and returning to Christchurch? On first searches appears to be like $1000+ more than departing Auckland but I am not a pro at this. Makes sense if that's the case just to fid some cheap fares to/from CHC - AKL as mentioned above.

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    Associatedbeatthatflight @ Beat That Flight on 02/10/2023 - 12:11

    Yeah, you'll probably need to find a cheap return flight to AKL, SYD or MEL.

    So for example, the Auckland segment, $1350: https://bookings.beatthatflight.com.au/flights/AKL1311LON291…
    And then you'll need to find a flight to/from AKL before and after.

    So for $231 return, this(bookings.beatthatflight.com.au) is an example, leaving CHC early in the morning, returning several hours after landing in Auckland in case the international flight runs late.

    Note you can get cheaper flights but they either don't work with the connection, or you may need to spend a night in Auckland. That may be your preference, but hopefully that shows you how to find them!

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      mycomputer on 02/10/2023 - 12:57

      Thank you! I assumed that was the best idea too.
      Do you know by any chance if any of these deals work flying into one of those destinations i.e. Paris but departing a different city such as London? I tried playing around with that too but nothing stood out as a great deal

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        Associatedbeatthatflight @ Beat That Flight on 02/10/2023 - 12:59

        Ah, very unlikely, airlines don't tend to like open-jaw flights like that very often. Low cost carriers can work like this sometimes, where two one way flights can be cheaper than a return(youtube.com) but it's tricky. You're often better off finding the cheapest return flight into the European continent (often Paris, Madrid, Amsterdam or Rome, almost never London), and then buy cheap one way flights/trains/ferries around the continent. Hope that helps!