Cheap transtasman flights

[stellar_muddle]

Kiwis snap up flights
8.00am Thursday November 23, 2006 (NZ Herald)

New Zealanders are snapping up cut-price flights to Australia, as airlines try to rally interest in transtasman routes.

Emirates sold out of tickets in its 48-hour "super sale" last night, a spokesman said. The airline offered return flights to Sydney from $304, Melbourne from $284 and Brisbane from $286, including taxes, surcharges and levies.

Air New Zealand yesterday added Australian flights to its cut-price Grab a Seat website, with Auckland-Sydney flights from $132 one way.

They would do this after having booked flights back for CF, but for anyne wanting to do CF or Festival. Bugger for missing out on the Emerates deal though.

There is an LJ feed for the Air NZ grab a seat website, but I am not certain of the exact linkage.

Comments

[sandhi.livejournal.com]

OK with period tent I guess. Heather is coming too.

[basal-surge.livejournal.com]

Ok. White ex-ministry of works A-frame, (Pretty much waterproof) or new brown polycotton A-frame? (Sorta waterproof but mist a bit in heavy rain)?

Basic summary is: We left the two new brown polycottons (two people, three if they're friends, four if they're intimate and have not much gear except sleeping bags) and the white ex MoW tent in Canberra (two, maybe three if intimate), so thats tentage for between six and nine people at a pinch.

I may accidentally make a yurt out of the hundreds and hundreds of metres of canvas I now have lying about, too. But jenny swore off tents for a year after the last ones.

[sandhi.livejournal.com]

is there a downside to the MoW one?

[basal-surge.livejournal.com]

It's the one that Peter and Sonya used the last time you were over for festival. It's pretty old (probably 50 years by now), but doesn't have any major problems. White canvas a-frame with two end poles and a centre pole, door in one end with fabric ties to close, etc, yadda yadda.

It's pretty much about right for a 15th-16th C campaign tent, give or take. There's something a bit funny about the angle of the walls and doors, such that if you don't pitch it just right, it sags funny and the walls and doors don't stay pegged down properly at the bottoms. Which is it's major annoyance factor for me. But then, Jenny and I have great difficulty getting the doors right on our new a-frames right anyway, so maybe doors and walls are just difficult. I'm thinking of pitching it with little sub-poles at the corners, and see if that changes it a bit.

[basal-surge.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah: The waterproofing is functional, so long as you don't touch the walls when it's wet, but has been known to give up the ghost during serious torrential downpours of the sort that happen a lot in NZ, but are less common in Oz, but still happen when the rules state that they would be most annoying.

Whereas the brown a-frames are made of a twill polycotton drill which was sold to me as cotton, so it didn't take the period waterproofing all that well, and under heavy rain the drops will run off, but their impact tends to punch a fine mist of water through the fabric.

[basal-surge.livejournal.com]

Hey, I could sew up simple waterproof rain flys from all the oilskin canvas I now have lying about.

[basal-surge.livejournal.com]

I suppose the point is: Dome tent: No bugs, but not period - and can't stand up to put on garb. Period tent: Possible bugs, but period, and can stand up to put on garb.