AA: Sydney to 31 Cities All over The USA, $1256 Return with 32kg Checked Luggage @ Google Flights

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How's everyone feeling about the USA?! I know there are a lot of mixed feelings, but if you need to go here are some great fares on American Airlines to a bunch of cities.
32kg checked luggage included, food, drinks etc; and one or two stops en route. Dates are August & September 2025.
I've only linked one search but just change the city to see dates working for all the others.

From:

Sydney (SYD) - $1256

To:

Albuquerque (ABQ)

Atlanta (ATL)

Austin (AUS)

Birmingham (BHM)

Boise (BOI)

Boston (BOS)

Charleston (CHS)

Cincinnati (CVG)

Cleveland (CLE)

Columbus (CMH)

Detroit (DTW)

Fort Lauderdale (FLL)

Grand Rapids (GRR)

Indianapolis (IND)

Kansas City (MCI)

Las Vegas (LAS)

Memphis (MEM)

Nashville (BNA)

Omaha (OMA)

Orlando (MCO)

Pensacola (PNS)

Pittsburgh (PIT)

Portland (PDX)

Raleigh (RDU)

Salt Lake City (SLC)

Savannah (SAV)

Spokane (GEG)

St. Louis (STL)

Tampa (TPA)

Tucson (TUS)

Washington DC (BWI)

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Comments

  • +31

    Plus the cost of your new burner phone.

    • +11

      Yeah, have been put off the idea of setting foot anywhere near Trump-land. Maybe in another decade.

      Imagine if you lived there… even worse for the residents.

      • Ahem, I think they prefer to be called “Aliens” or “Illegals”.

  • +17

    Hard pass for the next few years

    • I am not going till they release the Epstein files.

      • Why? Its proven Trump is on there already.

  • +19

    You'd have to be completely braindead to visit the US at the moment unless you absolutely have to: https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/incidents/terr…

    Imagine being detained, strip-searched, starved, and put up with a bunch of murderers and thieves with no ability to get help from lawyers or your embassy despite doing everything right. What a joke of a country.

    Make sure to budget at least another $5000 for legal fees and trauma therapy.

  • +2

    plus the cost of upgrading your icloud storage before you leave so you can wipe your phone and restore

  • +3

    It's a no from me dawg.

  • +3

    why the hell would u go there with Trump stuffing the world up.

  • +5

    Bloody hell, USA tourism must be hurting big time.

  • +2

    If i wear a MAGA hat, along with a shirt with trump's face on it, will my dead pet guinea pig come back alive?

    TIA

    • Yep, but it’ll come back as an America Pig. Guinea is just another state of America after all.

      • NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
        -Darth Vader

  • +1

    what is the "normal" price?

  • +2

    Don’t forget Trump’s new $250 “Visa integrity fee”that was just announced

    https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/business/money-report/travel…

    • +3

      So as a traveler you are either
      - planning to overstay your visa and this is now a $250 fee to do that, so big deal.
      - a normal traveller and now burdened with an additional $250 and the hopes that the reimbursement process is smooth

      Are they purposely trying to reduce visitor/tourism numbers/$ even further?

    • That’s ~$384 in dollarydoos

    • +2

      This is incorrect

      This does NOT apply to ESTAs which is your VWP program for Australian Passport Holders

  • +6

    Why on earth would you go there?

    • +4

      Maybe you're from there, your family lives there, you have business there… many reasons!

  • +1

    Interesting that none of the AA hubs aren't on the list.

    MIA, DFW, JFK etc

    • None of those were working at those prices

  • +1

    Just got back from the United States - painless entry process, completed my Global Entry Interview on Arrival and got TSA PreCheck - expensive sure but overall a very good experience all around. Going back in November and June of next year.

    • +6

      The problem isn't when it goes well, the problem is when it doesn't. There was due process in 2024. There is no due process in 2025. Before, you will probably just be put on a flight back. Now, you still might be put on a flight…….

      • Even in Australia there has generally never been due process for those illegal immigrants for those coming by boats - from both the Liberals and Labor under Gillard which notably passed through the changes to the Migration Act which removed such due process.

        Even for foreigners visiting Australia, if you are refused immigration clearance - you CANNOT appeal the decision to the AAT and have extremely limited judicial review pathways through the Federal Court. Australian Border Force have the exact same powers as US Customs and Border Protection in that they have ultimately the final say on what gives.

        The United States has never ever had due process for being refused entry into the US for the past 4 decades now. You can be refused entry for pretty much any vague reason and that has not changed.

        • Would they put you in an Australian prison after a complementary strip and cavity search? https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/incidents/terr…

          Never heard of this stuff happening before this year, either no one cared back then or it's gotten worse.

        • That cool. Now tell the class when people that were let in, and are mid applying for residency, were instead seized off the streets (or inside courts) and shipped to Ecuador?

          Now tell the class when we've done that to our own citizens convicted of no dereportable crime?

          I'll be waiting.

          • @Ademos: My entire point was surrounding immigration clearance at PoE facilities - not some government deportation operation that hasnt been since since the 1930s and 40s

            • +1

              @AircraftFreight: Your point is you want to ignore wider context, as you're trying to "whatabout" away the escalating recent reports of aus citizens being strip searched and detained for no reason, or possibly worse, making fun of J.D Vance.

              You aren't smart for pointing out it's always been a shit show. We know. Everyone knows. You are however failing to admit it's recently far worse under the current administration.

              The deportation operation i refer to is happening, now, to their own citizens. Imagine what they'll do to ours?

              This wilful minimisation while taking named stabs at only one side of politics is a thin veil.

        • The United States has never ever had due process for being refused entry into the US for the past 4 decades now. You can be refused entry for pretty much any vague reason and that has not changed.

          Being refused entry isn't a problem. Being sent on a flight back to Australia isn't a problem. The problem is the missing steps in between.

          https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/11/german-tourist…

          • @dyziplen: Even then in Australia you are held in immigration detention, in Melbourne in particular the norm was solitary confinement until the new renovations were completed 2019, and up to a few weeks depending on flight availability and the destination. You can be held for hours before being questioned, phones searched, body and strip searches, internal x-rays etc before your visa is cancelled and removed from Australia.

            • @AircraftFreight: This is common in Australia, demands to check your phone and social media in case you'd ever said anything ridiculing the prime minister, parliament or the country. You make strong points with the similarities.

      • -1

        Heaven forbid a country not allow some random foreigner in without due process!!1!!!1!!

        • The dark irony of any Australian saying this in jest.

  • Unfortunately doesn't have my hometown on this lists.

  • +1

    American is one of the worst airlines to travel in, and that's by American standards.

  • There are direct flights from Sydney to Vancouver so can just skip the mess to the south.
    .

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