Melbourne vs Sydney..cheap flights

[Glenn]

Just a little bit of a heads up anyone flying to Melbourne for the game, if you are preapred to make the hike from Avalon to the city. Jetstar has some tickets for $39.00 on sale, each way

[JF_Bay22_SCG]

Re: Melbourne vs Sydney..cheap flights

Originally posted by Glenn
Just a little bit of a heads up anyone flying to Melbourne for the game, if you are preapred to make the hike from Avalon to the city. Jetstar has some tickets for $39.00 on sale, each way

Seriously mate. Jetstar is a complete farce. I drove past the Avalon "airport" on route to/from Geelong and couldn't believe how far it was from central Melbourne.

Virgin and QF have some fairly decent old specials as well at the moment. Why waste time flying Jetstar to woop woop when you can fly to Tulla for not much more?

You can also go by car with either the Manager or Peter H (in Ceduna SA last night), as both will be making trips south for the match. We paid $50 return for the Carlton game with 4 in the car.

The Vic Hotel has rooms from $60 as well if you use RatestoGo.com.

JF

[DST]

Fly "Death Star" at your peril.

DST

[Jude4eva]

id rather fly qantas and actually fly in sumwhere near melbourne.

I bought my flights for the demons game in feb and i got my flights fo $85 each way which isnt too bad.

But id never fly jetstar

[daniel f]

Ive never flown jetstar but im told by friends who recently did theres a free shuttle bus from avalon to the city.Avalon really isnt that much further than tulla from melbourne maybe twenty minutes max.

[DST]

Not much further than Tulla? It is another 20+ km's.

There is no bus link as the company that was to provide it pulled out before they started flying their. They do however have free parking for cars.

DST

[Diego]

I would not even go near jetstar. Virgin Blue flights and planes are bad enough..i cant imagine what JetStar would be like.

My last trip to Melbourne I almost blacked out from the pressure inside the virgin blue cabin. So from now on Qantas..rather pay a bit extra but at least i dont have to fly in old rejetced planes that could fail anyday now.

Call me paranoid.

[daniel f]

Originally posted by DST
Not much further than Tulla? It is another 20+ km's.

There is no bus link as the company that was to provide it pulled out before they started flying their. They do however have free parking for cars.

DST

Yeah 20+ks to me =20 mins.lol.Must of been some company do it for a while as they are adamant they got a free mini bus from there to hotel,maybe had something to do with hotel.

[Damien]

I have used Jetstar for Sydney to Hobart, fantastic!

I know a fair few people that have used Hobart-Melbourne also (Hobart Melbournet Jetstar flights use Tullamarine) and loved it.

I am happy just to get somewhere cheaply.

[Damien]

Information about buses from Avalon to the CBD of Melbourne are here.

http://www.avalonairport.com.au/pdf/Sunbus_Fact_Sheet.pdf

(http://www.avalonairport.com.au)

[daniel f]

Originally posted by DST
Not much further than Tulla? It is another 20+ km's.

There is no bus link as the company that was to provide it pulled out before they started flying their. They do however have free parking for cars.

DST

Are you sure of that ,ive seen a fair bit to dispute that theres no bus service,call jetstar theyll tell you there is and as damien has even provided a timetable weird to have a timetable with no service???????

[Captain]

Originally posted by Diego
I would not even go near jetstar. Virgin Blue flights and planes are bad enough..i cant imagine what JetStar would be like.

My last trip to Melbourne I almost blacked out from the pressure inside the virgin blue cabin. So from now on Qantas..rather pay a bit extra but at least i dont have to fly in old rejetced planes that could fail anyday now.

Call me paranoid.

Actually Virgin Blue have much newer planes than Qantas.

Virgin also introduced both the 737-700 and 737-800 before Qantas.

[robbieando]

I saw $39 flights up to Sydney this weekend from Melbourne, pity I don't have the cash available at the moment otherwise I would go.

[DST]

Originally posted by daniel f
Are you sure of that ,ive seen a fair bit to dispute that theres no bus service,call jetstar theyll tell you there is and as damien has even provided a timetable weird to have a timetable with no service???????

I know the initial company pulled out before they started flying, they may have replaced that themselves.

If it is at no cost (the initial bus company was going to charge $15.00) then it must be being put on by Qantas or DeathStar themselves.

DST

[Damien]

Originally posted by DST
I know the initial company pulled out before they started flying, they may have replaced that themselves.

If it is at no cost (the initial bus company was going to charge $15.00) then it must be being put on by Qantas or DeathStar themselves.

DST

It is $12 ($20 return) for Spencer Street and $15 ($22 return) for the CDB loop.

They are called Sunbus.

Not a bad deal really for the bus considering how cheap some of Jetstar's prices are.