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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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  • Sam says:

    For this price I can go anytime ! Anyone know if there is a way to find the cheapest available fare in a month? I’ve only been able to find it in economy.
    Thanks

  • EvilDoctorK says:

    I think it’s gone now ? – Prices on many dates that were available now showing quite a bit higher .. Google flights suggests OTAs may still have the fare, but may not really be bookable .. Great deal while it lasted

  • Vincent Teo says:

    I see there is a flight that stops in Tokyo for 9 hours. Would we be allowed to do a quick tour of the city during this time?

    • Gavin says:

      I don’t see why not, if Japan is open for tourism as normal by then. But I’m not expecting it to be open as normal for a long time to come!

      • Rhys says:

        I think Japan will reopen before 2023, though!

        They’ve just passed the peak of daily infections, give it a few months. ANA is returning to daily flights to London next month.

  • froggitt says:

    And if the British government still think APT is a green tax, add a return to Dublin and think again.

  • Steve says:

    looks to me like all availability gone – wasnt quick enough today but good tip Rob

  • Ryan says:

    Looks like most options gone now. I see this article was released last night, but I only got the email this morning – is there a way to get an immediate notification?

    • Amo says:

      +1. I enjoy the 3 morning emails but personally would be happy to occasionally receive an additional email for ‘hot’ topics like this (provided I don’t get the same email as part of the automated following morning’s batch)

      • Rob says:

        You need to pop over to the site during the day!

        We only send emails later in the day when we have deferred one from the morning due to an embargo.

    • Kathryn says:

      Follow headforpoints on Twitter & set to have notifications. I’ve followed HFP for years and 95% of the notifications I dismiss, but every so often an offer comes in like this or the Japan fares from a few years ago ☺️

  • Eamon says:

    Managed to get return business flights to Sydney for GBP 1,500 per person. Thanks HfP!

    The lowest lowest fares had already gone but still a v good price, I think. We’ll fly a combo of Lufthansa, Singapore and Quantas so great to experience them all. Downside is the number of changes of course, and having to get to Dublin, but for these prices we felt it was a good deal – and getting to Oz is a marathon however you do it really.

    The other bit that was a bit unclear was this basic plus fare. We opted for that for an extra EUR 100 ish to enable us to cancel minus EUR 250. However, it’s not clear if that’s 4 or 2 x EUR 250 (e.g. per leg or per person booking)… Any wisdom on this welcome.

    • Kathryn says:

      It’s per person per flight 👀 we opted to chance it instead on that basis

  • Aston100 says:

    Apart from school holiday dates obviously being blacked out and the minor inconvenience of getting to Dublin (and overnighting?) my main concern would be about the twitchiness of Australia and Covid lockdowns.
    This is a country that has a panic attack when a handful of cases show up.
    Given what Rob said about fare differences in the event of a date change, I’d be worried about the fare suddenly shooting up by 250%

    Otherwise fantastic deal if everything goes according to plan with no hiccups.

    • Rob says:

      If there are lockdowns, however, there is a good chance that one of your six flights would be cancelled or see a major time change, allowing you a full cash refund.

    • Louie says:

      No need to worry. Lockdowns in every eastern state are over – and given the Covid cat is well and truly out of the bag and rates of vaccination are much higher than most countries, the UK included – will remain that way. Western Australia is a different story but even they are likely to have opened up by the middle of the year.

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