Air Canada to New York City from Sydney $1254 Return, Brisbane $1258 Return (June-Apr) @ Beat That Flight

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Price drop again to the US! This time with Air Canada, via Canada. One of the upsides of entering the US from Canada is you can often go through immigration at the Canadian airport before your flight.

  • Flights are on wide-body aircraft
  • 23kg checked luggage, meals, entertainment included
  • Star Alliance airline
  • generally quick transit times in Canadian airports

Note the SmartTraveller advice that entry could be denied for any reason under US law, but regardless, it's a wonderfully diverse country and New York is definitely a city I didn't get enough of in my time there.

My top tip is to book accommodation early - even in a city that big, it fills up surprisingly quickly.

(since I assume this is going to draw political comments, please post your funniest non-offensive jokes about the US below instead and we can all move on with our day)

Sydney - New York City on Air Canada return

Dates: 1 Jun 25 - 30 Mar 26

Brisbane to New York City return

Dates: 1 Jun 25 - 30 Mar 26


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Comments

  • +7

    Thought we need to get paid to come to the US nowadays dont we ;)

    • +1

      with velocity points its like 200 bucks :D

    • +2

      you notice they never do good deals during dec jan 2025 :D

  • +3

    It will be interesting to see, given that personal travel to the US is already down 7%, how low these prices can go

    • +4

      Given the airfare is about the same as 2 or 3 nights in a 3-star hotel in Manhattan… its a small fraction of the cost of travel to the US. Jetstar is ending its Hawaii service.. $500 return fares for $800/night hotels don't make sense.

      Japan is about 1/3 the cost of a US holiday these days.

      • +3

        Japan it is!

  • +2

    The country's turmoil aside, NYC/ Manhatten in particular is amazing to experience. Go with some good walking shoes, get demolished in chess at Washington State Park, feel gangsta in gentrified Harlem, watch Wicked in Broadway and go for a run around Central Park. Good fun and I'd highly recommend.

    • Not going to lie, my chess game in Washington Square Park was one of my highlights.

      • +1

        I went from "hey I'm down a little material but I have the centre" to "How the (profanity) this dude checking me already" in 20s

    • -2

      What turmoil is that?

      • -1

        Buddy, our country just voted. We don't want this. We're too smart for it.

        As someone who identifies as Libertarian, I'm not opposed to the Liberal Party on principle, but this version of the right is frankly unaustralian.

        • +1

          What are you talking about?

          • +1

            @tmcn85: politics aside, the border policing by US homeland security has been exceedingly firm against visitors even from trusted regions like Australia UK Europe,
            scrutinised not for criminal conduct or financial motives capability, but social media and private telephone communications by you, or even others that you have no control over.

            Cases of prospective tourists held in captivity at customs for mundane messages and not in any way criminal, for hours or days without charge, prospectively ruining the money spent on hotels and activities. and most travel insurance won't compensate and even if they finally clear without charge
            your time for holidays is precious and limited and you cannot get that back before returning to work after experiencing no travel

            • @cski: @cski this. At least during the first Administration, there were no changes to how Customs and Border Protection would treat Australian Tourists.

              https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-17/us-border-security-au…

              If you are planning a trip to the United States, consider taking a temporary or disposable "burner" phone, printing out bank statements and creating detailed itinerary plans.
              When detained and questioned, "in terms of the rights, there's not many for a non-citizen,” Mr Noorian said…The head coach of the Australian mixed martial arts team claimed he spent 24 hours in an American jail when immigration officials detained him for a visa "mistake".
              Being refused entry on an ESTA does not ban you from the US, but you will no longer be eligible for the visa waiver program. To re-enter, travellers need to apply for an actual visa.

              https://news.northeastern.edu/2025/04/09/can-border-patrol-s…
              https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/canadian-det…

          • +1

            @tmcn85: Echoing what @cski is saying and setting aside the politics, I just feel unwelcome in their country due to their hostility and extremist 'vibes', blaming foreigners for all their problems.

            Route 66 has been on my bucket list for a long time (actually learnt about it as a kid watching the Pixar movie Cars - Hollywood really is good at promoting the USA!), but I won't be doing that trip until things settle down, which is a shame because the football (soccer) world cup will be jointly held in USA, Canada and Mexico in 2026 and it would have been cool to do both.

            • @brotherfranciz: That's actually going to be a fascinating time to see how the US handles all that cross-border traffic from Canada and Mexico, let alone the international arrivals.

    • +1

      Yeah, NYC is a fantastic experience. Even if it's just to wander around eating hot dogs and pastrami sandwiches. Lots of free experiences like the Staten Island ferry for the Statue of Liberty, the NYC public library, walking across to Brooklyn, walking the Highline and pay what you want days at Guggenheim museum.

    • +2

      Get demolished in chess at Hyde Park, feel gangsta in gentrified Redfern, watch Wicked at Lyrics and go for a run around Centennial Park.

      No M&M store in Syd though.

      • There was one at the Australian Open in Melbourne tho.

        You'll have to settle for buying an ordinary packet of M&Ms from the M&M general store at Wassell St between Matraville & Malabar!
        Not quite the same thing…

    • +1

      At the risk of just sounding contrarian, I've been to NYC twice and really couldn't wait to see the back of it both times. I mean sure, it has countless things on offer you can only experience here. But for me personally it was just too busy and expensive to be anywhere near a highlight of a 2 month US trip. And now that Sleep No More is gone for good I can't even recommend that. Your mileage will obviously vary.

    • Central Park is cool i like the rocky foundation its over…. but man NYC is a shithole of a place, dirty, overcrowded, rude people.

    • What turmoil would that be? There's no mass social upheaval or civil disobedience going on.

      I found my most recent visit to NYC pretty tame, no grittiness or sass anymore like 'old new york' in the 90s/00s. Once you've seen the sights it's just like any other large international city.

      Visit New Orleans or Austin TX if you want the full gamut of culture, history, art & food.

    • +1

      What turmoil? It is golden age under trump. Look at your own mess

  • +1

    In time for watching Knicks Championship parade celebration

    • +1

      Not looking good for todays game, but one can hope. Burnson and Hart make basketball fun to watch again.

      • Looks like they want to close it at the Garden

  • +2

    NYC banned airbnb (yes, a US city that is more progressive than any large Australian city) and hotel prices are very high as a result. We staid in Jersey City. Took a ferry to Manhattan, awesome.

    • NYC banned airbnb

      Jacinta is basically doing that in Victoria…

      • +2

        I personally don't like AirBnB particularly in cities and rural areas, because it leaves houses out of the market for income families and workers.

        The apartment that would otherwise be used by a student or service worker is instead empty at least 50% of the time and the workers then need to live further and further out. in many cases leading to worker shortages or high wage spikes particularly in tourist towns with limited housing in general,

        The presence in small towns particularly blocks capital on high density accommodations from being built due to undercutting in these tourist towns meaning a return on investment is unattainable.

        Originally the idea of AirBNB was a spare room shared with a tourist, but it has veered into ghost houses run by massive groups of professional entities.

        • because it leaves houses out of the market for income families and workers.

          They are private houses. They don't belong to Jacinta.

          • @jv: AirBNB is not a private house, it is a company

            • @cski:

              AirBNB is not a private house

              They are all private houses on AirBNB

              • @jv: private to who is the reality, the point is businesses and trust are buying dozens of homes in major areas, then listing them for use,
                these are no longer private properties but commercial property assets

                • +1

                  @cski:

                  private to who

                  The owner of the property.

                  • +1

                    @jv: the commercial trust or Company owner of the property. is my concern
                    being commercial this makes them open to government policies and rules

                    • +1

                      @cski:

                      the commercial trust or Company owner of the property

                      No, the private owner's holiday house down the peninsula…

                      • -1

                        @jv: That's the fantasy fluff marketing from airBNB the reality is super hosts are running for profit businesses.

                        At the end of the day airBNB is a rental property scheme,

                        residential houses we rent everyday for fixed term 1, 2, 3 years are well within authority for government to enforce guidelines for contracts , minimum standards , and disclosures.

                        rentals of 1, 2, 14 days listed on airBNB is a rental property and should not be immune to government standards

                        • @cski:

                          the reality is super hosts are running for profit businesses.

                          The few people I know running AirBNBs are not super…

                          They're just trying to help pay all the land taxes that Jacinta keeps increasing on their holiday homes…

      • Nampanjimpa Price has taken over Victoria as well as the Libs?

    • Brooklyn and Long Island City were better places to stay for both price, views and atmosphere.

  • Uhh where's Melbourne :(

  • +2

    Disaster tourism is all the rage atm. I'll wait for the Canada deals so I don't get falsefully imprisoned or detained. cheers and thank you. :)

  • If you identify as a refugee and have the right passport you can get free citizenship.

  • Any deals just for Canada?

  • Who in their right mind would brave the immigration BS to visit the USA with such a poor exchange rate to boot.

  • No need to book accommodation. Shared room will be provided free of charge including chauffeured transportation one way.

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