May I suggest a new rule for flight ticket deals:
Deal must list out whether there is layover + for how many hours, and all the airlines involved.
Flight ticket comparison web site associates have increasingly using OZB as a pure advertising tool.
They list out cheap price and dates, but deliberately miss out the long layover hours, and the airlines involved, only to attract people to access their website.
This has become so common that is so annoying.
For example in this deal:
Japan Airlines to Tokyo, Japan from Melbourne from $934, Brisbane $1045 Return, Sydney $1022 Return (Oct-Dec) @ Beat That Flight
Japan Airlines (JAL) has a regular 10 hours direct flight from Mel/Syd to Tokyo with a $2000 price tag.
In the above deal, the associate mentioned nothing about layover hours, which mislead us to think that $934 is the mark down price for a return direct flight.
However the $934 ticket is actually a QF Mel->SIN, then JAL SIN -TYO one stop trip, with a 16 hours layover, which makes it 32 hours one way.
That makes this "deal" isn't really a deal because there are other airlines with much shorter layover in similar price.
Plus, half of the trip is with QF, which service is much inferior than JAL.
I believe it's not fair for us to find these crucial info only after clicking through their website.
I am sure many members would have agreed with me.
Thank you. )
And if Kosher meal is available. And how far the seats can recline. And what the inflight movie is.