Flighthacker

Vanuatu: If you miss the flight, there's always the boat... Photo Credit: koumarou973

With Fiji’s fortune fading, other Pacific nations have been stepping up their efforts to lure the travel dollar. Air Vanuatu has joined the fray, offering the following excellent fares for their full-service flights:

• Sydney – Port Vila: $496
• Brisbane – Port Vila: $471

Fares are for return flights and include all taxes. The catch: flights have to be booked either via phone or email (gasp! humans!) and depart only once a week from Sydney and Brisbane respectively. Sale is on now, for departures between 6 September – 24 October (ex. Brisbane) and 2 September – 28 October (ex. Sydney). Check out Air Vanuatu’s sale page for details.

Don’t bother with their ‘book a flight’ interface – it doesn’t work. Hopefully the guy who maintains their site doesn’t maintain their planes…

Yes, this Sydney chill is sure getting at me. I’m just coming out of a bout of ‘kinda-swine-flu‘, the Winter doona has come out of the closet and I’m taking a new interest in video games. So, I’m starting to envy my Pacific Islander friends. The only swine they know is buried with coals and cooked. Flight delays are more likely the result of island time than fog. Most aptly, their airfares are going cheap, then cheaper!

VirginBlue/Pacific Blue are offering seriously cut-price fares from Sydney to the Pacific Islands, including:

• Sydney to Port Vila, Vanuatu for $390 return
• Sydney to Nadi, Fiji for $424 return
• Sydney to Nuku Alofa, Tonga for $506 return

All fares are for direct flights and include tax. Travel periods are 04 Aug – 15 Sep, 20 Oct – 09 Dec and 27 Jan – 30 Mar, 2010. Sale is on now until 26 Jul or sold out.

Yep, I can smell that roast pork already. For more details and to book, view VirginBlue’s sale page!