blobby1000 Posted February 3, 2012 Share Posted February 3, 2012 We live in melbourne and I have been having a look at flights home to the UK. If we buy a return flight with Emerates it costs $2200 However, when I looked at how much the exact same flight is but booked starting out in London it is 800 pounds return. This is $1150. So it's twice as much to pay in dollars for the exact same seats. We have UK bank account. Does anyone know any way of buying these seats from the UK? Can someone in the Uk purchase them starting out in Australia? What has anyone else done when booking flights home. I am very reluctant to pay $2200 when I know the seats are available for half that. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quoll Posted February 3, 2012 Share Posted February 3, 2012 You dont. Even if you buy through the UK site you will be charged like you are in Australia because you are wanting a return out of Australia and back. It's one of the joys of living in Australia. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bensdad Posted February 3, 2012 Share Posted February 3, 2012 We rang our old Thomas cook shop in the uk got flights with emirates in march perth to London gatwick and return £735 all in. Loving Fremantle! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nic75 Posted February 3, 2012 Share Posted February 3, 2012 Can you tell us which shop as this is a great price. Cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bensdad Posted February 3, 2012 Share Posted February 3, 2012 Thomas cook in portsmouth. Try ringing the one in your old uk town. Loving Fremantle! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blobby1000 Posted February 4, 2012 Author Share Posted February 4, 2012 Thanks, thats really helpfu, we will try that. It beats paying $2200 for the exact saem seats. Did Thomas Cook send you tickets or etickets or what?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bensdad Posted February 4, 2012 Share Posted February 4, 2012 E tickets mailed straight to us. Loving Fremantle! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quoll Posted February 5, 2012 Share Posted February 5, 2012 That's really unusual because the usual response is that return flights originating in Australia are required to be dealt with by an Australian agent - hence the Australian prices. Dont know whether you just got someone who didnt know the rules or there really is a way around it but there are many threads on here in the past (check out NigelinOz, an Australian travel agent) who explained the rationale over and over and it was always said that you would pay Aussie prices for flights originating in Australia Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bensdad Posted February 5, 2012 Share Posted February 5, 2012 dunno to be honest, i phoned them explained that my wife needed to get home for a family emergency and that is what they came back with , i gave them rough dates as we were flexible and that is what they said, you have me worried now will check the credit card balance online to make sure i've not c*cked up :-( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest17301 Posted February 5, 2012 Share Posted February 5, 2012 If you find you've only paid $1100 or so please let me know...Ive looked into this in the past too....you can't play the system or so I thought! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickyNook Posted February 5, 2012 Share Posted February 5, 2012 Quoll's quite right. IATA rules are that air tickets must be priced at the levels established for the country where the trip originates. Thus, when you buy a ticket from Perth to London, whether one-way or round-trip, you pay the price established in Australian dollars. You can book the ticket from anywhere and pay in any currency you like but it should still be the local (AUD price) converted to the currency you want to pay in. Maybe the agent didn't know what they were doing - or maybe they just gave you a massive discount on the Australian fare? Are you sure your ticket is Perth/London/Perth? Or is it London/Perth/London? :wink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bensdad Posted February 5, 2012 Share Posted February 5, 2012 Dunno will double check in work tomorrow. Will update soon as I find out. Loving Fremantle! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghost Posted February 5, 2012 Share Posted February 5, 2012 Apparently there's a. Program called ip blocker you can download so the computers don't know where In The world you are. You can then book on uk sites. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bensdad Posted February 5, 2012 Share Posted February 5, 2012 If you use an ip blocker log onto a uk website and pay with a uk bank account using a member of family or friends uk address and generic email address for e tickets this must work. I'm going to check tomorrow bout our ticket. Loving Fremantle! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest The Pom Queen Posted February 5, 2012 Share Posted February 5, 2012 We rang our old Thomas cook shop in the uk got flights with emirates in march perth to London gatwick and return £735 all in. Loving Fremantle! Is that each? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emmaroo Posted February 5, 2012 Share Posted February 5, 2012 If you find you've only paid $1100 or so please let me know...Ive looked into this in the past too....you can't play the system or so I thought! That's what I thought too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest36187 Posted February 5, 2012 Share Posted February 5, 2012 We are shopping for return flights for October. Cheapest so far....$1995. EACH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest The Pom Queen Posted February 5, 2012 Share Posted February 5, 2012 We are shopping for return flights for October. Cheapest so far....$1995. EACH That is ridiculous especially when you have a family, you are looking at $10,000 before you even organise accommodation etc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest17301 Posted February 5, 2012 Share Posted February 5, 2012 We're looking at $7500 for return flights in October next year for 4 of us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fairystar32 Posted February 5, 2012 Share Posted February 5, 2012 It cost us almost $12k to visit the UK at Xmas !!!!!!! I hope there is a way around it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peach Posted February 5, 2012 Share Posted February 5, 2012 Even if you use an IP address blocker, you still have to put in that you're flying from Australia to the UK. P.S. costing us $7k to visit family next month. (2 adults + 1 kid + 1 infant). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Que Sera Sera Posted February 5, 2012 Share Posted February 5, 2012 Well my maths is rubbish I admit, but surely it seems such bad value because the £ is doing so badly against the $ Its not a rip off its just that the Aussie Dollar is strong and the Pound week. I mean a few years ago the exchange rate would have been 3 to 1 so a £800 flight would equal $2400 so its not Australia's fault its the poor pound Austalia has not suddenly put the prices up. Or am I completely wrong Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quoll Posted February 5, 2012 Share Posted February 5, 2012 If you find you've only paid $1100 or so please let me know...Ive looked into this in the past too....you can't play the system or so I thought! So did we all!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quoll Posted February 5, 2012 Share Posted February 5, 2012 Well my maths is rubbish I admit, but surely it seems such bad value because the £ is doing so badly against the $ Its not a rip off its just that the Aussie Dollar is strong and the Pound week. I mean a few years ago the exchange rate would have been 3 to 1 so a £800 flight would equal $2400 so its not Australia's fault its the poor pound Austalia has not suddenly put the prices up. Or am I completely wrong No, it's not the exchange rate per se although that plays into it of course, but Nigel explained that it was the market demand that made prices higher out of Australia combined with taxes etc (although I would have thought they were universal no matter where you booked your ticket). Aussies are just prepared to pay more to escape! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quinkla Posted February 5, 2012 Share Posted February 5, 2012 If you find you've only paid $1100 or so please let me know...Ive looked into this in the past too....you can't play the system or so I thought! The only way I can think of to game the system is if you travel to the UK more than once a year. Then you can buy a single to London and then get returns from London to Australia. But unless you know your dates firmly in advance, you'd end up getting full fare Y which would defeat the object of getting cheap tickets. FWIW, the cheapest Melbourne to London return fares that I am finding now are with Continental via Los Angeles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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