Good news for backpackers travelling around Australia and New Zealand in the near future: Australian low-fare airlines Jetstar and Virgin Blue are about to get some extra competition.
Tiger Airways is coming to Australia in December:
The Singapore Airlines-backed Tiger Airways said Wednesday it would start flights from Melbourne to Darwin from December, with fares starting at $79.99 one way. (The Age)
The more competition there is, the lower the fares are likely to be – something penny-pinching backpackers always like to hear.
What Virgin Blue has, though, that the others don’t appear to have catered for (as yet), is ‘carbon offset’ a recent initiative aimed at reducing the greenhouse gas emissions caused by your flight.
So, for a small fee (it differs for each flight), you can experience that warm fluffy feeling one gets from doing something good for the environment.
You do get that feeling, right? Right?
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