Cheap flights to Australia for a frequent flyer

Posted by admin on Thursday July 01, 2010 | Travel Related News | 234 views

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Frequent flyers often get cheap flights to Australia incase if they always fly with one airline and earn some good air miles to be eligible for the discount. But then there are those bundles of other terms and conditions such as there are only few particular sub classes of economy/premium or business that can be upgraded or discounted and not all of them. Hence even frequent flyers some time end up not been able to get the discount they deserve on their long haul flights as to destinations like Australia.

Flights to Australia from London, UK are one of the most expensive destinations if compared with flights to Africa or Asia. This makes it more important for frequent flyers to best use their number of travels in earning them cheap Australia flights.

Firstly for a frequent flyer, it’s important to know:

  • Always keep a record of your travels. Makes an excel sheet in your computer and keep updating it with date of travel, ticket numbers, flight numbers and destination records each time you fly
  • Also keep your passport number saved with your records in long run it will save you time for looking in expired passports.
  • Choose the cheapest and responsible flight booking company and each time try and contact the same agent or representative to earn “old client” repute in a company. As at travel agency level also, there are discounts for clients booking more than 3 flights with them.
  • Book your flights well in advance, as early as possible so that you get enough time to apply and get the upgrade or discount sorted out as in peak season it can take time
  • Always remember there are not all seats or classes that can be discounted so timely reservation is a key
  • If you book with an agent, as they have much cheaper flights, you can still contact the airline afterwards on their direct line or through your agency as some airline can facilitate upgrades based on your previous travels.
  • If you are a frequent flyers but keep changing airlines, try getting fares from Travel Agencies rather than Airlines directly as most agencies buy tickets in bulk, get discounts and sell cheap fares.
  • Be a good time divider. Do not spend too much time shopping around as it will confuse you and by the time you return back to the cheapest flights to Australia provider, the seats will be gone since cheap flights don’t stay long in market.
  • Do not forget to take name and call back number from all people / agencies you call and note the quoted amount separately to get back to the right person.
  • In case of booking last minute flights to Australia, try indirect flights first, ask the time of stop over / change over, if only 2 to 4 hours are involved well, that’s the best don’t miss it cause direct flights will be already taken.
  • If you prefer flying direct, try to get Australia flights from a GSA or agent that has contracts with direct carriers. The fare difference usually between buying from normal agency and a contract holder cane be between 20 to 200 GBP cheaper.
  • To make a call is better than online reservation as you can ask many questions, ask for the terms and conditions and also check if there are “easy modes of payment” available such as installment / deposit plans etc
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