South Pacific - The forgotten region

South Pacific - The Forgotten Region

Well, the title can sound a bit drastic, but of course we are talking about airlines and costs involved when traveling on the region. Whats is wrong there then?

Let's begin with a clear example: Barcelona - Stockholm, a typical 3 hours trip, can be purchased in Europe in low season for 25 euros (33 dollars) round trip taxes included. Comparing with a typical 3 hour trip as a Sydney - Auckland could be in the south Pacific area, after hours of research we are not able to find anything for less than 300 euros. And often this is the price for just one way!!!

I am not an expert, and possibly it exists a reason why low cost haven't developed still there, but the impact is terrifying. With another example: I want to travel from Europe to Australia or New Zealand. Good, Oasis Hong Kong gives me the chance to ge there for 400 euros. That was 2 thirds of the trip, great! Now the connection with Australia... Nothing for less than 1.000 euros, and if you want to reach New Zealand you will probably add a couple of hundred more.

In any case, there are some good news for the aussies, as it is within the expansion plans of Oasis Hong Kong to develop routes from Hong Kong to the capital and to Sydney, for probably 300-400 euros, but this is still just a plan.

Looking at other "hot deals", we also can find Qantas as one of the best options, specially at low season, with an average of 1300 euros for the Europe - South Pacific trip. Not bad compared to other options, but still a long way to go.

Now we take the opposite. Let's think we are or we want to go to ones of this western european countries. A very good option would be the so much called Zoom Airlines, which can give you a London - New York for about 350 euros (465 dollars). Then we need to cross America, which is not cheap but can be affordable. And then... again, the Pacific rules will place a 1000 euros fee at least to cross to the islands territory, which destroys your whole strategy.

After all, I just want to say thank you to this airlines that are trying to organize the long haul low fares, and I 100% support their expansion plans, as probably in the end we will see the light on South Pacific low fees. Meanwhile, we should keep focusing on saving!


South Pacific - The Forgotten Region