Cheapest way to go Easter Island from Sydney?

Must I fly to Santiago first? If so, what is the cheapest way?

Any experience to share?

- stickyrice

On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 11:40:44 +1000, stickyrice
wrote:

Must I fly to Santiago first? If so, what is the cheapest way?

Any experience to share?

- stickyrice

No experience, but I checked this out when I was looking at
alternatives to cross the Pacific. If you're going from
Australia you have a few options all via Papeete. You can go
Air Tahiti Nui Sydney-Papeete, then LAN to Easter Island; or
you can go Air New Zealand to Papeete via Auckland, then on
to Easter Island with LAN again. You can also add Raratonga
on the Air NZ route if you want shorter flights and another
island to see.

Basically, wherever you start, I didn't find any en-route
choices apart from Santiago or Papeete.

So force yourself to put up with a couple of nights in
Tahiti en-route:-)

Cheers, Alan, Australia
http://loraltravel.blogspot.com/
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Alan S wrote:

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Must I fly to Santiago first? If so, what is the cheapest way? Any experience to share? - stickyrice



No experience, but I checked this out when I was looking at alternatives to cross the Pacific. If you're going from Australia you have a few options all via Papeete. You can go Air Tahiti Nui Sydney-Papeete, then LAN to Easter Island; or you can go Air New Zealand to Papeete via Auckland, then on to Easter Island with LAN again. You can also add Raratonga on the Air NZ route if you want shorter flights and another island to see. Basically, wherever you start, I didn't find any en-route choices apart from Santiago or Papeete. So force yourself to put up with a couple of nights in Tahiti en-route:-)

Thanks, Alan.  It seems there are little options regarding the route.  Actually I will be happy to stay a couple of nights in Tahiti.  Now question is: where to get those cheap tickets?  Any idea?

- stickyrice

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I don't know what you are using to access this newsgroup, but could I
suggest somthing that doesn't clog up the post with extraneous HTML. It was
really hard to find your message amongst all the tags!

OK now to your question! If you are looking for cheap airfares, I can
recommend bestflights.com.au. In my experience they are very good at
winkling out all those obscure cheap flights. Having said that, Easter
Island is notorious for being expensive because it is a tiny place
thousands of km from anywhere served by only one airline.

Happy hunting!

R.

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I don't know what you are using to access this newsgroup, but could I suggest somthing that doesn't clog up the post with extraneous HTML. It was really hard to find your message amongst all the tags!

It's Thunderbird here!  Any problem from others?

Probably some incompatability with your XNews?


OK now to your question! If you are looking for cheap airfares, I can recommend bestflights.com.au. In my experience they are very good at winkling out all those obscure cheap flights. Having said that, Easter Island is notorious for being expensive because it is a tiny place thousands of km from anywhere served by only one airline.

Thanks for the info.  Yeah, monopoly business by LAN.  What can you say? :-(

- stickyrice

On 20 Oct 2006 12:48:57 +0800, Reece
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stickyrice wrote in
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Thanks, Alan.  It seems there are little options regarding the
route.  Actually I will be happy to stay a couple of nights in
Tahiti.  Now question is: where to get those cheap tickets? 
Any idea?br br
- stickyricebr
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I don't know what you are using to access this newsgroup, but could I
suggest somthing that doesn't clog up the post with extraneous HTML. It was
really hard to find your message amongst all the tags!

God point - I never saw the answer, until you quoted it.

OK now to your question! If you are looking for cheap airfares, I can
recommend bestflights.com.au. In my experience they are very good at
winkling out all those obscure cheap flights. Having said that, Easter
Island is notorious for being expensive because it is a tiny place
thousands of km from anywhere served by only one airline.

Happy hunting!

R.


Also try the source Airlines for specials: Qantas, AirNZ,
LAN and Air Tahiti Nui.

Cheers, Alan, Australia
http://loraltravel.blogspot.com/
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stickyrice wrote:
Reece wrote:
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I don't know what you are using to access this newsgroup, but could I
suggest somthing that doesn't clog up the post with extraneous HTML. It was
really hard to find your message amongst all the tags!

It's Thunderbird here! Any problem from others?

For people with properly configured newsreaders, it's unreadable, i.e.
they either see nothing or the HTML source. I saw nothing (i.e. an empty
response) and only looked at the (hard to read) HTML-source because your
response was a response to Reece's, who talked about the HTML problem.

Your original posting was OK. That was in "text/plain". Your responses
were in "text/html" (without a (earlier) text/plain part). So check in
Thunderbird where you can set plain text or no-HTML or something like
that.

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On 20 Oct 2006 14:20:51 GMT, Frank Slootweg
wrote:

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stickyrice wrote:
Reece wrote:
[deleted]
I don't know what you are using to access this newsgroup, but could I
suggest somthing that doesn't clog up the post with extraneous HTML. It was
really hard to find your message amongst all the tags!

It's Thunderbird here! Any problem from others?

For people with properly configured newsreaders, it's unreadable, i.e.
they either see nothing or the HTML source. I saw nothing (i.e. an empty
response) and only looked at the (hard to read) HTML-source because your
response was a response to Reece's, who talked about the HTML problem.

Your original posting was OK. That was in "text/plain". Your responses
were in "text/html" (without a (earlier) text/plain part). So check in
Thunderbird where you can set plain text or no-HTML or something like
that.

[deleted]


I've not directly seen any posts except his first.

Cheers, Alan, Australia
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Alan S wrote:
On 20 Oct 2006 14:20:51 GMT, Frank Slootweg
wrote:

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stickyrice wrote:
Reece wrote:
[deleted]
I don't know what you are using to access this newsgroup, but
could I suggest somthing that doesn't clog up the post with
extraneous HTML. It was really hard to find your message amongst
all the tags!

It's Thunderbird here! Any problem from others?

For people with properly configured newsreaders, it's unreadable, i.e.
they either see nothing or the HTML source. I saw nothing (i.e. an empty
response) and only looked at the (hard to read) HTML-source because your
response was a response to Reece's, who talked about the HTML problem.

Your original posting was OK. That was in "text/plain". Your responses
were in "text/html" (without a (earlier) text/plain part). So check in
Thunderbird where you can set plain text or no-HTML or something like
that.

[deleted]

I've not directly seen any posts except his first.

Then I assume that you've set your newsreader to *kill* (i.e. not show
at all) HTML-postings.

Mine is set to display only text/plain postings. HTML postings are
only 'announced' but not rendered, i.e. not displayed, i.e. like:

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I.e. the "[-- ... --]" part only announced that there was a HTML part
(and that that was all there was, i.e. no (earlier) text/plain part).

On 21 Oct 2006 12:05:51 GMT, Frank Slootweg
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Then I assume that you've set your newsreader to *kill* (i.e. not show
at all) HTML-postings.

Must be the default in Agent - I don't recall ever doing
that.

Cheers, Alan, Australia
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