Cheap transtasman flights

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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

[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.