Qantas is offering 100 daily seats for $200 round-trip at 2pm PST/5pm EST this week.
Today’s special will go live at 2pm PST/5pm EST for 100 seats from Chicago to Brisbane.
Qantas first ever nonstop service from Chicago to Australia launches on April 15th.
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- There will be 10 seats on each of the following outbound dates from Chicago to Brisbane:
- April 20, 22, 27, 29
- May 4, 6, 11, 13, 18, 20
Return dates are more flexible. The minimum stay will be 7 days and you can stay up to 12 months.
You can use just 4.5K BA Avios to fly from Brisbane to Sydney or the Whitsunday Islands or 7.5K Avios to fly from Brisbane to Melbourne or Cairns.
You’ll have to be quick to grab one of the seats on sale, but some DansDeals readers have scored big.
Sydney opera house:
Sydney Harbour Bridge:
Kangaroo at Angelsea Golf Club on the Great Ocean Road:
Great Ocean Road, outside Melbourne:
Wineglass Bay, Tasmania:
Whitsunday Islands:
Back in 2010-2011 Mimi and I flew around the world on the now defunct American OneWorld first class round-the-world award for 230K miles. In Australia we used the award to stop off in Melbourne, Sydney, Tasmania, and the Whitsunday Islands. Truly an awesome country!
- 3-5 days in Sydney would give you enough time to experience the phenomenal Park Hyatt, climb the Harbour bridge, check out the Opera House, pet some Koalas and Kangaroos, and have a day in the Blue Mountains.
- 4-6 days in Melbourne would allow for a road trip of the sublime Great Ocean Road and the breathtaking Grampians before going to to Melborune for Shabbos at the excellent Park Hyatt which is around the corner from a great Chabad House. A flight from Sydney to Melbourne is just 4.5K BA Avios with no fuel surcharges.
- 2-4 days in Hamilton Island or Cairns would give you time to snorkel or dive the Great Barrier Reef. If you’re going to Hamilton Island you’ll also be able to check out famous Whitehaven Beach and the Whitsunday Islands. A flight from Sydney to Hamilton Island is 7.5K BA Avios with no fuel surcharges. Sydney to Cairns is 10K Avios.
- We spent 4 nights covering the entire beautiful island of Tasmania without realizing just how much driving that would entail. Doing over a week would have been ideal. A flight from Sydney to Tasmania is 4.5K BA Avios with no fuel surcharges.
- We didn’t make it to more remote places like Uluru, Kangaroo Island, Perth, or the Australian Outback, but perhaps on a future trip? Then again 10K BA Avios can also get you from Sydney to New Zealand. That’s been on my bucket list for a very long time…
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These dates are terrible if you are counting the Omer.
Why?
As long as you return before Shavuos there shouldn’t be an issue.
Hi Dan, the Lubavitcher Rebbe said there is a huge problem with flying across the international dateline whilst counting the omer because you miss a day, chulu v’chulu. Ergo, the Rebbe said its better to fly the other way home aka around the world.
The Rebbe was talking about flying one-way during the omer, such as flying back after Pesach, as that would lead to a skipped day or an extra day, which would then change when your personal Shavuos would be.
There is no skipped day if you fly round-trip during the omer, so there would be no questions about when your Shavuos would be.
meaning to say your flying to Australia after pesach and you come to maariv in shul when everyone counts the omer afterwards you count a day earlier and when you fly home you just count along with whatever the Americans are counting that day? but are you allowed to be counting a day earlier in a country that is counting one day ahead of you? do all poskim go with that
Omer count is personal. Obviously don’t daven for the amud, but I’m not aware of any opinions that you can’t fly round-trip across the dateline during sefira.
The primary concern is avoiding the thorny question of when Shavuos will be if you fly one-way across the dateline during sefira.
Website is down. I wonder if anyone ever got anything from the last days deals.
https://www.dansdeals.com/airfare-deals/international-flights/qantas-try-ticket-dallas-australia-200-round-trip/#comment-1434696
Thanks Dan!
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Getting only $445 price round trip from Chicago to Brisbane May 20th
$428 is lowest RT they are showing now