Jul 09 2009
5 August 10 Pound Flights to Australia
That’s right on the 5th August Qantas is offering seats to Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Brisbane or Adelaide from London for the price of £10! Seats go on sale on the 5 August and are only available for those who hold a valid working holiday visa for Australia. Seats are available on flights departing between August 15 and September 30 and November 1 to 30 - both traditionally slow times of the year for Qantas.
Is there a catch - yes- there are only 150 seats available for the price and those that want them are recommended to camp out over night to get in first. If they miss out Qantas will offer them a STG679 ($A1,386.56) which is not very good at all compared to prices that Air Asia X is offering on the route.
Its all a publicity stunt of course. “10 pound Poms” was the term used for assisted English migrants who came to Australia post-War right up to the 1970’s - in an attempt to “keep Australia white” - fortunately it didn’t work out to well!
The original 10 pound Poms had one way tickets in steerage on a boat. The new generation of 10 pound Poms will get a return airfare - as no one but New Zealanders and Australians are allowed to fly on a one-way ticket to Australia these days. Australia doesn’t want more migrants anymore!
Anyway - if you can bothered camping out overnight its a very good deal - but if you miss out check out other cheap flights such as Air Asia X - that would be a better deal I think
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Actually I don’t think so - its being marketed in London and the 10 pound Pom angle is all over the Oz media but if you eligible for WHV and want to fly from the UK go for it -I’d advise queueing early though - the Poms are great at queueing!