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Detailed travelogue on Australia and New Zealand

Detailed Travelogue on Australia and New Zealand

Larry
2006-05-27 03:23:16

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during the peak travel season (school
vacation for Australia and New Zealand, plus winter break for the Northern
Hemisphere), invariably, certain flights would be full on one airline, but
the other airline would still have some seats left. You also have a much
better selection of flight times and routings, having both airlines to
choose from. For instance, I wanted to fly direct from Brisbane to Auckland
(New Zealand). Qantas offered the routing, but not Ansett. Yet Ansett
usually has more flights than Qantas, in general. Also note that you can
get these fares for travel both within and between the countries of
Australia and New Zealand.
The funny thing about the airline industry in that part of the world is
that now, everyone seems to own at least part of everyone else. There are
four major airlines: Qantas, Ansett Australia, Ansett New Zealand, and Air
New Zealand, and all four companies seem to own at least part of each
other. My Qantas flight from Christchurch (NZ) to Melbourne was actually
operated by Air New Zealand (on Air New Zealand aircraft). Fares (for
locals) are quite high in the region, probably because even though there are
four separate companies, they all seem to have a stake in each other.
One last note is that in general, the service aboard Ansett and Qantas is
quite good. Unlike the U.S., (and reflective of Australia in general), the
service on board is warm and friendly both inflight, and on the ground.
More than once, I wanted to get on an earlier, or different flight on which
all the economy seats were filled. I was ready to pay the higher fare, and
each time the ground staff smiled and let me get on without asking for the
fee. Even when I needed to change the routing on my Qantas ticket, (there's
a $50 fee only if you change the cities once ticketing has been done), the
agent smiled and said ...

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