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Hi all,

Jetstar have a really great deal offering cheap fares to Japan.

I was just quoted $517(incl tax) return!!! Which is half what i paid last year.

Flights are available from late Jan to late March.

So my next question is:

What events are happening between Jan 20th and March 20th??

If there are some things worth seeing ill be booking next week :P

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No Missprint ?

You checked the 3 digits twice eh? No 4th digit?

Take your own lunch & afternoon tea along? Does a Subway 12 inch last 12 hrs?

Oh-Oh the AU$ has dropped to 78c US last night...

How's it holding up against the Yen?

Thanks for the info Dave,

Tez

NYTSKY Grand Master

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Thats what i would like to find out. I would miss out on the TAS too, i would of liked to have been there again next year.

dr1ft.jp,Laurence,M3gtr if any of read this can you please shed some light on what events big or small might be on around this time?

Much appreciated :P

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well I thought it was cheap too, but then their email quotes one way fares (the only airline I know to do that). so when I priced up star class return for any reaonable date it was $3,000 return. still cheap if it's as good as other carriers business class, but no where near as cheap as they advertise. anyway the big issue for me with jetstar is none of their flights are direct and their planes are old and shit. at least with JAL and Qantas you get nice, big, SAFE, NEW 747s etc, where as jetstar look to be using aircraft built some time around WWII... but I guess if you don't mind going at weird dates, and don't mind non-direct flights and having to buy food and luggage space then it's a good way to save money.

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Also got the email

Would be great if there was some racing or similar on during that time!

Shame the travel dates dont cover the nismo festival

can someone let us know when this is on please..

One of the guys at worked picked up $5 flights for the end of the month to Japan

All up he paid about $350 return

for me it is just over $400 return, looks like I might be going to Japan for a holdiday

for that price, no matter what airline, Ill also go for a holiday

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well I thought it was cheap too, but then their email quotes one way fares (the only airline I know to do that). so when I priced up star class return for any reaonable date it was $3,000 return. still cheap if it's as good as other carriers business class, but no where near as cheap as they advertise. anyway the big issue for me with jetstar is none of their flights are direct and their planes are old and shit. at least with JAL and Qantas you get nice, big, SAFE, NEW 747s etc, where as jetstar look to be using aircraft built some time around WWII... but I guess if you don't mind going at weird dates, and don't mind non-direct flights and having to buy food and luggage space then it's a good way to save money.

what a load of dribble....my daughter just flew direct to Osaka out of Sydney...the plane was a quite new Airbus A330...not a DC-10 as you have suggested...took on almost 25kg of luggage at no surcharge...left on Sunday at 11.30am and the total cost was just over $1000 return.

not everyone can afford to jet to Japan on a whim and fly business class as you do Richard :rofl:

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I'm young... I look at flights pretty much the same way I look at bus rides / ferry rides - I don't mind a bit of discomfort. And if the past was anything to go by, I didn't see any problems with pov-spec class with JS. Granted, Star-Class is better... but is it worth the cost? Not in my mind, much rather spend the saved cash when I get there.

NYTSKY Grand Master

NYTSKY

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When i called them to check the prices, i was quoted $517.

The reason why it is so cheap is 1) because there is a sale and 2) the dates i wanted to fly.

There and back the fares were the same each way. And Richard most of Jetstars aircraft are brand new planes.Their new Star Dream fleet will be soon filling the international trips. They are the ones with big windows that change to traslucent at a touch of a button.

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When i called them to check the prices, i was quoted $517.

The reason why it is so cheap is 1) because there is a sale and 2) the dates i wanted to fly.

There and back the fares were the same each way. And Richard most of Jetstars aircraft are brand new planes.Their new Star Dream fleet will be soon filling the international trips. They are the ones with big windows that change to traslucent at a touch of a button.

Can you confirm whether or not you're flying out of Sydney? Not 100% sure where Leumeah is...

Also, yeah that's what I thought about JS planes - they're all brand new.

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what a load of dribble....my daughter just flew direct to Osaka out of Sydney...the plane was a quite new Airbus A330...not a DC-10 as you have suggested...took on almost 25kg of luggage at no surcharge...left on Sunday at 11.30am and the total cost was just over $1000 return.

not everyone can afford to jet to Japan on a whim and fly business class as you do Richard :rofl:

lol. I'm talking about tokyo. no direct flights to tokyo. osaka is ok, but 90% of what I do and want to see in japan is in or around tokyo. :) so i would waste plenty of time and money by either getting another flight or a shinkansen from osaka-tokyo. and compare an airbus 330 with a 747-400 and I know which one I would choose. :O the level of service and comfort definitely makes a difference to me, plus the amount of frequent flyer point I accrue with JAL means a free return trip after only a few flights.

anyway, I have never flown jetstar internationally. I have flown them domestic when I couldn't get seats on any qantas flights so i'm largely basing my experiences off those times. but i wasn't impressed.

but you all have good points. if you can get flights for like under $800 return all up then that is damn cheap! the tax alone on the last flight I booked was bout $500-$600 so that leaves about $200odd on the air ticket! every time i've tried to book jetstar for a date i actually wanted to go it was not cheap enough for me to choose it. but I can see it makes OS travel an option for people who would not have otherwised considered it due to cost, and that is a good thing.

the star dream thing dave is talking about sounds cool though, and their star class is much better priced than JAL or qantas business. I guess I just can't shake off my 'cheap' image of jetstar and my impression that cheap airlines scrimp on quality and safety (but I don't have any factual basis for that, just my paranoia!).

so Jetstar away then!!! see you all in japan amongst a see of white people :dry:

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BB or someone who is familiar with japan and car events

when's the Nismo Festival for 2009 ?

contemplating whether to go to Japan for TAS/Nismo Festival or go Sepang for the Super GT round in Jun09

any rough dates would be great, thanks

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Ya BB... Jetstar fly to Tokyo direct as of Dec 18th.

nah, they fly syd-cairns-tokyo and before dec 18th don't fly to tokyo at all. and as you know good buddy I need something well before 18/12 :blush:

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