Flights to and from Australia: Flying into Australia is expensive, but flying out of the country is cheap
Last weekend, if you wanted to book a one-way flight from London to Australia leaving in two weeks with Emirates, you'd be having to pay about $11,000 at the cheapest. With Qatar, you'd have to fork out almost $14,000. If you were looking to book a one-way fare from Sydney to London around the same time, on Qatar you'd get economy for around $1000 with business class about $3000. Even in a month's time, the discrepancy remains significant, if not huge. On Qatar, London to Melbourne would cost $5169 for a mid-April departure; coming the other way, $1014. On Etihad, the price would be $5891 le...