Australia flight with stop off

[FreedaDonkey]

I know how to book a straight through flight but how do I book one with a stop off? I’d like to go via Singapore if possible or Hong Kong. I can’t work out how to add the stop over. Also is it possible to stop off in different places each way?

Thank you for any help

Where you flying to in Australia?
Different airlines do different stops and durations or are you wanting a couple days at the stop over?

If you fly with Cathay Pacific there is a function on their website to include a stopover in Hong Kong. I wonder if people use travel aganets to do this? Or multi city flight options? I have booked separate flights ie london - Singapore return and then bough5 flights for onwards travel with a different carrier.

Have a look at Skyscanner. You can enter in multi cities for the flights and do one way tickets etc. it will give you an idea of what is available with the different airlines.
probably looking at Singapore Airlines if you want to fly direct to Singapore and then on to Australia and Cathay Pacific if you go via Hong Kong.

Thank you. It’ll be to Sydney. Last time we powered through but I’d like to try a stop off this time for a couple of nights.

Do a multi city search. Can do each leg individually then.

BA fly to Sydney via Singapore from the U.K.

If it's London-Singapore (with a layover) using a single airline that you are after then AFAIK your options are BA, Qantas and Singapore Airlines.

(I'm out of the industry now so I'm assuming BA and QF still have the rights to allow passengers to disembark at SIN and actually stay there for several nights)

It used to be fairly easy to book a multi-sector with BA but haven't done it in a while.

Or Qatar, Cathay Pacific

@FreedaDonkey

Found the BA way - For ba.com there is a multicity option that should allow you to build the trip as separate sectors.

LHR-SIN
SIN-SYD
etc etc

https://www.britishairways.com/travel/book/public/en_us/flightSearch

You can stop at different places each way. We went London-Hong Kong-Sydney then Sydney-Thailand-London. We had booked to stop in Sri Lanka on the return leg but had to change in line with Foreign Office advice at the time

I can confirm this is still the case. Singapore Airlines, Qantas and BA allow multi city booking options.

Doing a distance like that it is worth joining the relevant airline’s frequent flyer scheme. The worst that can happen is your points expire because they are not used. Or you may find future benefit from them.

These are so helpful thanks.

We've done stopovers in different cities on the way there and back, you can look on Skyscanner and put it in as 4 flights using multi-city option. I have sometimes booked as 2 separate journeys, so last year I booked UK - Singapore and Tokyo - UK, as an 'open jaw' return with KLM and then booked Singapore - Sydney and Sydney - Tokyo with Qantas. We've also sometimes used budget airlines on some of these legs, rather than Qantas, if it's cheaper. You probably have more choices (and a better price) available looking at say Bangkok and Singapore than Tokyo. I will say that we always fly August time, because of school age kids, and generally it's at least a bit more expensive to book a route with complicated/different stopovers like this.

I had a quick on look random dates in June/July, you can book the whole thing if you are departing London with British airways £1246 for an adult. From Manchester you would need to book with a few different airlines, including Scoot (budget subsidiary of Singapore airlines) from Singapore to Sydney for the cheapest price. We've flown with Scoot 3 times they are significantly better than Ryanair, but no back of seat in-flight entertainment.

The thing I would chuck in given recent events is the more connections you have the more chance there is of the plan breaking down.

For the last few years we have been using Dial-A-Flight to book long flights. They look through all the flights for you and they have been super helpful through covid and other situations where flights got cancelled or changed. Otherwise, we would have spent hours on the phone and wouldn't have got our money back for months - looking at you BA.
With everything happening at the moment, I like the extra feeling of security.