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Astonishing £1,250 business class flights to Australia from Dublin, to early 2023

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The Star Alliance airlines have, for no obvious reason, launched an astonishing fare sale out of Dublin to Australia.

How cheap? We’re talking:

  • Adelaide – €1,450 return (£1,210)
  • Brisbane – €1,500 return (£1,250)
  • Melbourne – €1,450 return (£1,210)
  • Sydney – €1,500 return (£1,250)

You can book on the Lufthansa website here.

For clarity …. these are Business Class, return, tickets, flying with sensible airlines – in most cases:

  • Lufthansa
  • SWISS
  • Singapore Airlines

Travel dates run through to early February 2023.

The minimum stay is six days, the maximum stay is three months.

Clearly you won’t have totally free choice of dates, but the deals are there. Here is an Adelaide trip I was able to find with little difficulty:

Click to enlarge. As you can see, you’re travelling Dublin – Zurich – Singapore – Adelaide out, and Adelaide – Singapore – Munich – Dublin on the return.

The fare is €1,449, which is £1,210.

Unfortunately, I don’t think there is an easy way to build in stopovers. You may be able to do it via trial and error but it won’t be easy because only specific flights will be valid for this fare.

In terms of covid cover, you have some risk. Lufthansa will rebook you, free of charge, but you will be on the hook for the fare difference. Once this offer is over, a typical fare might be €4,000 – and you’d be on the hook for the difference.

You may want to consider paying a little more to book with more certainty. Pay an extra €95 each way and you can cancel the full trip for a refund for a €250 penalty.

Where to credit your flights

SWISS and Lufthansa are both part of the Miles & More loyalty scheme, although you can of course credit your flight to any other Star Alliance programme.

You’d earn around 21,000 miles in most schemes, based on booking class ‘P’. The website wheretocredit.com can give you detailed numbers.

How to book

The easiest place to book is the Lufthansa website here.

If you don’t have a credit card offering 0% FX fees (as you will be paying in Euro), your best option to maximise your miles when paying is American Express Preferred Rewards Gold.  This offers double points – 2 per £1 – when you when you book flight tickets directly with an airline.  Our review of Amex Gold is here.

In theory this offer runs until 7th March but that won’t happen – these seats will disappear very quickly.

Comments (120)

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  • Russ says:

    Very nice! Kind of knocks BA’s rise in award fees right out of the ball park.
    Thanks Rob

  • Yorkshire Rich says:

    Wonder if other airlines will follow suit.

  • Babyg says:

    wow… trying to make some dates work right now.. thanks Rob.

  • Jacob says:

    Got it.
    Anyone knows how to select seats on the SQ flights? On LX/LH website says can’t select and on SQ website, the button is greyed out.

    • Damien says:

      I was able to choose seats through the swiss website, but bizarrely it only showed alternative empty seats in the middle row…. not two together. every alternate row would have the left hand seat free to book. bit naff

  • Harry T says:

    Booked via LX website for ideal dates in January and February 2023 – amazing deal for 1483.93 euros each – DUB-MUC-SIN-SYD and SYD-SIN-ZRH-DUB. Outbound on LH and SQ, return on SQ and LX. Worth remembering booking P class fares via LH is bad for points earning.

  • Lady London says:

    Beware P class. On LH Group airlines I believe it credits at a rate of 0.

    • Bimbo says:

      Wrong.

      • BlairWaldorfSalad says:

        LL has a point; it credits with Miles and More but credits at zero in some *A schemes.

    • David Cohen says:

      It credits as 100% to LH and UA, to A3 and TK it’ll credit as nothing.

      • Tony says:

        Yup A3 gets nothing as I found to my cost with the last Business class sale. Assumed it would be similar to when I booked with Swiss but no luck

  • Lynx says:

    Could be good for anyone wanting to go to the ICC T20 world cup. It appears that LH are not expecting much demand for that, as there are still seats available all through the tournament.

    • Polly says:

      Lyn, only opened my email now, driving the length of France..am sure all gone by now…but my oh says tnx for the ICC’s tip..p

  • Boon says:

    Anyone got open-jaw to work? Out of Dublin, into London?
    Or into Melbourne, out of Brisbane?

    • Kathryn says:

      Currently looking at into Adelaide and out f Melbourne in Jan

    • Harry T says:

      Easy to open jaw within Australia for these prices, so you could fly into Melbourne and out of Sydney for example. But flying back into London will surely bring the price up substantially.

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