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Bah! This is a stonking deal. There may be more reductions to follow.
Im a kiwi working in the travel and enterainment tech industry and have seen no better deal. Admittedly its off peak (winter in NZ in that direction) but for this price who cares.
Be aware you need to act fast - connecting flights to nz or oz always have issues as you are competing with people booking from USA -> Auckland and vice versa, HK->sydney...etc... - who fill up the cheap flights on the last leg you want to do. Typically there are many many more connections out of London to USA and HK to allow a cheap fare on this side of thejourney, but the other side (with smaller airports and traffic) fill up fast as. The combined total of these 2 or 3 legs needs to be low to get the low fares.
e.g.a typical flight to OZ may be : LHR ->HK, HK->SYD. The LATTER part fills up faster as there are less cheap seats due to less flights doing that leg. And people wanting HK->SYD or SYD->HK use up those cheap fares fast as long haul is far less prevalent than medium or short haul custom. Same applies to LHR->LAX,LAX->AKL and similar. Anyhoo you get the idea of why its volatile.
Now the sad part - booked by whole family to go via AirNZ last week before these fares came out!
Thats HALF of what my fares were.... at trade rates....
Ah well - go for it!
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