My advice is rent out your house in the UK for a profit if you can and sent the cash to NZ, don't sell up in the UK, you should get a nice income for your UK home!
Friday, 29 May 2009
Flights
I wish I understood why it costs £547 to but a return to Auckland Flying Air New Zealand in London that is =$1386 New Zealand dollars. Yet in New Zealand it would cost$1785 or £704 GBP. So why does it cost more to fly in New Zealand than in from the UK. I guess it must be something to do with the dollar in the US or the cost of the fuel. None of which makes sense because both fares are with Air New Zealand, it is a round trip so the cost should be identical? If anything I'd have expected it to cost more to fly from the UK? If you take my rants about the currency which no one seems to understand. A person who earns 50k in the UK would probably get 50k in New Zealand but in dollars. That means in wage terms one GBP = one NZD so a flight from New Zealand to the UK actually costs a kiwi £1785 more than 3 times the cost for a UK person! So remember once you are there you may not come home for visits as much as you think.
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I totally agree - it's shocking! We were looking to fly from NZ to UK return and for 2 adults and 2 children we were looking at over $8,000 - flying direct... but with children we really don't want to fly direct - so add in a stop-over in San Francisco on the way there, a stop-over in Hong Kong on the way back to NZ.... and we're now looking at between $10,000 and $12,000 NZD! Arrrrrr...
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