In Reply to: Just booked again this time on FF posted by setmac on Wednesday, 15. June 2005 at 10:48 Bali Time:
I booked my trip to Bali for May in November last year and could only get there via Singapore but direct on the return....about 4 weeks before I left I checked the internet again, to see if I could get a more direct flight and there were some on there flying out a day earlier than my initial booking but direct with AA. I rang FF to change my flights and got a refund for the tax difference (tax is so big because you are flying out of Darwin as well - so you get taxed twice for departure. So my advice is keep checking about 2 months before you depart next year and you might get lucky with a direct flight. They only release more when they can't fill the aircraft.