Is there a cheapest city / airline / season to fly one-way from anywhere in Europe to Australia?

11/9/2014 3:16:25 PM

I think right now the cheapest way would be to fly with Norwegian from Scandinavia somewhere to Bangkok (from 184 EUR), then with continue with AirAsia to Melbourne (164 EUR), so 350 EUR so for a single fare. To Perth might be a bit cheaper.

7/1/2012 9:45:20 AM

The easiest way to get a cheap flight is to use one of the three dicount airlines that fly into/out of Australia – Scoot (Singapore), Tiger (Singapore-Perth), AirAsia (KL) and Jetstar (destinations). Then find the cheapest available flight linking with an airport serviced by one of these three, since cheap flights into Australia are usually the limiting factor.

6/16/2012 6:19:57 PM

I was just recently introduced to Skyscanner, which has some interesting search options. You can specify “Everywhere” as your destination, and “Whole Year” as your timeframe.

It will then show you the lowest fares and the corresponding travel dates to any destination.

If your timeframe is particularly flexible, this might be a good way to find really good fares.

10/4/2012 3:37:02 AM

Flying one-way with many of the major carriers is normally far more expensive than half of a return due to the way airlines price flights. That leaves you with three options :

  • Find a major airline that doesn’t bump prices for one-way (as much). Malaysian is one that springs to mind, and their one-way flights are normally cheaper than other major airlines.

  • Use frequent flyer points, if you have any. Most airlines allow one-way flights on FF miles, and they are frequently one of the best way to use your miles. Given that most people that pickup hitch-hikers don’t give out FF miles, I suspect this may not be a good option for you 🙂

  • Check out the discount carriers, who normally price flights the same regardless of whether it’s one-way or return.

Unfortunately the major Australia<–>Europe low-cost carrier, AirAsiaX, pulled out of the Europe market a few months ago. At this time I don’t believe that there’s any single LCC’s that fly Europe to Australia, so you’ll need to look at flying 2 different carriers – which probably means you’ll want to plan at least a night wherever you’re connecting.

Picking two carriers at random – Air Berlin from Berlin to Kuala Lumpur and AirAsia from Kuala Lumpur to Sydney – for a random date I selected in November, flights are available for ~400 Euro + ~A$200, or less than 600 Euro all up. That’s compared to about 900 Euro for the cheapest of the major airlines that I can see for those same airports any time in November.

You might want to check out FlightFox, where you can offer a small bounty to croudsource finding the cheapest prices for a flight – although I’m not sure if it supports your concept of “somewhere in Europe” as opposed to a specific airport/region.

If you are coming back through Asia in November, keep in mind that the full moon on the 28th of November is a fairly major event in many Asia countries, and would be a good time to spend a few days in Asia. I’ll be in Thailand for Loi Krathong, but many countries have celebrations of some form or other.

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