Craig Welch <craig@pacific.net.sg> wrote:

> jwb@csse.monash.edu.au wrote:
> > Craig Welch <craig@pacific.net.sg> dixit:
> >> Medgya wrote:
> >>> I had some friends -- an Australian/Japanese couple -- who used Expedia
> >>> quite a bit for their international travels. I don't recall hearing
> >>> about any problems, though that was a few years ago. Still, I often
> >>> find that I get cheaper prices by going directly to the airlines. Last
> >>> year I wanted to go from Sapporo to Hobart (Tasmania) and got a great
> >>> deal from Quantas... less than half the price that Expedia wanted. So
> >>> check around.
> > 
> >> You can't buy Quantas tickets online.
> > 
> > Well I can buy Qantas ones. I just went and (almost) bought a return
> > ticket to Tokyo. They're $A1269 at the moment.
> > 
> > (Perhaps they block them from outside the country...)
> 
> Indeed, Qantas tickets have been available online from around the world
> for many years.

Even from within Japan, if anyone is thinking of that quibble (I believe
it wasn't possible to access such sites from Japan in the past, but it
seems that's no longer true).

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