Hi
I'm looking to book flights from Melbourne to Dublin around 9 Sept to 1 Oct. I've been keeping an eye on prices for the last couple of months but they're all minimum $1,600 return with longer flight times than normal. Emirates, Etihad and Qatar have had "sales" recently but these dates are still staying the same price. Should I just get it over with or does anyone think it's worth waiting?
Fly anywhere in the UK and find a cheap RyanAir flight to Dublin.
I would add to that, try and fly to somewhere that RyanAir flies to thats not the UK since the UK has very high airport taxes
I'd be flying to maybe Paris …? To avoid the LHR taxes.
yes or AMS - Amsterdam
There's a heap of places RyanAir flies from Dublin:
Alicante, Amsterdam, Athens, Barcelona, Basel/Mulhouse, Beauvais, Bergamo, Berlin–Schönefeld, Birmingham, Bologna, Bratislava, Bristol, Brussels, Bucharest, Budapest, Bydgoszcz, Carcassonne, Charleroi, Cologne/Bonn, Copenhagen, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Eindhoven, Faro, Fuerteventura, Gdańsk, Glasgow, Gran Canaria, Hahn, Hamburg, Katowice, Kaunas, Kraków, Lanzarote, Leeds/Bradford, Lisbon, Liverpool, Łódź, London–Gatwick, London–Luton, London–Stansted, Madrid, Málaga, Malta, Manchester, Memmingen, Murcia, Nantes, Newcastle upon Tyne, Nice, Pisa, Porto, Poznań, Prague, Riga, Rome–Ciampino, Rzeszów, Seville, Sofia, Szczecin, Tenerife–South, Treviso, Vilnius, Warsaw–Modlin, Wrocław
Seasonal: Almería, Bari, Bremen, Biarritz, Chania, Comiso, Girona, Grenoble, Ibiza, La Rochelle, Lublin, Marrakesh, Palermo, Palma de Mallorca, Reus, Rodez, Salzburg, Santander, Tallinn, Tours, Turin, Valencia, Vigo, Zadar
It includes Athens. So you can fly via Scoot to Athens and then Ryanair to Dublin. But after adding the cost of bags it may still be cheaper with a full service airline.
Skyscanner finds some options for $1410…
https://www.skyscanner.com.au/transport/flights/mela/dub/170…
You can create a price alert where they will check prices regularly and email you if they change.
You still have a bit of time up your sleeve maybe you can wait another two months in case a better deal comes up.