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I'd like to fly back home (to Perth, from Boston or New York) for Christmas, 2007... but the cheapest tickets I can find online are like $1800 each. Does anyone know where to look to find cheaper tickets? I'm looking at Expedia, and Emirates directly...

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cheap tickets, hotwire.

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It would be nice to have a Travel section somewhere pinned for the various regions. I've spent a small fortune this year on flights to Philippines.

For those needing to connect to other parts of Phils, Cebu Pacific is a great airline, no first class, kind of like SouthWest Airlines, I catch a roundtrip from Manila to Cebu for about $35 dollars each time. The expensive part of getting to Manila. http://www.cebupacificair.com/

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Future Flight - Christmas 2007 - prices right now averaging $1,800 - although Southwest has caused an airwar to breakout now and AA is matching pricing for $200 for west coast flights so I am pricing westcoast flights to Manila now.

I'd like to fly back home (to Perth, from Boston or New York) for Christmas, 2007... but the cheapest tickets I can find online are like $1800 each. Does anyone know where to look to find cheaper tickets? I'm looking at Expedia, and Emirates directly...

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I'd like to fly back home (to Perth, from Boston or New York) for Christmas, 2007... but the cheapest tickets I can find online are like $1800 each. Does anyone know where to look to find cheaper tickets? I'm looking at Expedia, and Emirates directly...

Perhaps Air-Savings.com?

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I'd like to fly back home (to Perth, from Boston or New York) for Christmas, 2007... but the cheapest tickets I can find online are like $1800 each. Does anyone know where to look to find cheaper tickets? I'm looking at Expedia, and Emirates directly...

First of all cheap tickets and Christmas are typically an oxymoron. You are trying to travel during a very busy time and the airlines just charge more because they can.

If yu have flexible travel dates try tweaking your dates around and see if it makes a difference\

Try sidestep.com or kayak.com. These are meta search engines that look at more than one website on each search.

YMMV

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I'd like to fly back home (to Perth, from Boston or New York) for Christmas, 2007... but the cheapest tickets I can find online are like $1800 each. Does anyone know where to look to find cheaper tickets? I'm looking at Expedia, and Emirates directly...

yesh. Christmas time the deals are going to be thin on the ground. Sidekick tends to find the lowest publish fares, but occasionally I've had a fare-watcher set at Travelocity send me notice of flights for less.

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1. You're looking WAY too far in advance - you have to wait. I bought mine a month ago, and they're already 400$ cheaper now.

2. Air New Zealand, I have found, ALWAYS have the best rates..

So I'd say wait a while....you're WAY too early.

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I'd like to fly back home (to Perth, from Boston or New York) for Christmas, 2007... but the cheapest tickets I can find online are like $1800 each. Does anyone know where to look to find cheaper tickets? I'm looking at Expedia, and Emirates directly...

Try kayak.com. It searches all the airlines and all the ticket broker sites at once.

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hi

have you tried qantas....they also have deals where you can have 3 free flights within oz too

and i agree its way too soon and your looking a peek time maybe try beginning november time leaving for a cheaper deal

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I second Kath with Qantas. Just keep checking their website regularly, as they have good specials that come up on and off if you book with them directly. Christmas is a pretty hard time to get cheap fares, though.

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Thanks for all the replies, folks. I will check out all the sites mentioned, hopefully I can find a good deal! Airline pricing seems to be black magic, I for one have never understood it (and I like to think I'm a reasonably smart guy :P)

I'd like to avoid going Qantas if possible. For one, I hate their service; and secondly I think that they only fly from the West coast of the U.S. to the East coast of Australia... so I'd have to go Boston/LA/Sydney/Perth! Which I'd rather like to avoid.

I understand that Christmas is of course the busiest time, which is why I'm looking more than a year in advance!

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10/08/05: NVC receives I-129F from VSC

11/28/05: Medical completed in Dakar

11/30/05: Interview completed in Dakar

12/01/05: Received visa in Dakar

12/22/05: Arrived in the U.S. via JFK & received temp. EAD

12/28/05: Applied for SSN

12/29/05: Applied for marriage licence

01/07/06: Got married!

01/17/06: Received SSN (still waiting for actual card)

01/18/06: Started new job

01/18/06: Applied for Maine state ID

01/26/06: Sent EAD, AOS and AP applications to Chicago lockbox

01/28/06: Received Maine state ID

02/04/06: Received NOA1 for AOS and AP, sent in wrong check for EAD :(

02/06/06: Resent EAD to Chicago lockbox

02/14/06: Received NOA1 for EAD

02/15/06: Received biometrics appointment date

03/10/06: Gave biometrics

03/24/06: AP approved via email

03/30/06: Received AP document in mail

04/12/06: Get immunization supplements

04/24/06: AOS interview (case pending, need another I-864 and FBI name check pending)

04/28/06: EAD approved via email

05/01/06: Received EAD card in mail

10/20/06: AOS approved! After almost 180 days...

10/21/06: Received AOS approval email

10/27/06: Received Welcome to America letter

10/29/06: Received Green Card in mail

 
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