In Reply to: $250 increase each way Virgin Blue posted by Bintang Girl on Saturday, 1. August 2009 at 06:50 Bali Time:
First the cost of hotels increased to almost double at some places in Bali, then they release cheap flights to componsate and to get people back to Bali, then they think well we can increase flights because people love Bali and they will still go! Wrong, the only reason they have started to go back to Bali is because the flights we cheaper and more affordable however with the increase of hotels it approx worked out about the same as before. When you then hit with a double wammer of expensive flights, Hotels, increase in food etc it makes it a much more expensive trip to Bali.
So then what do we do if we want a holiday we start searching other destination and the airlines will have empty planes and then they'll say its not viable so we are not flying from there anymore.
We are all in catch, catch situation.
I for one live in Perth and sometimes get cheap flights not always but in saying this we only allow a certain budget that we can spend to go, if that is more expensive than we have then we just don't go and I start looking at where we can go for our money.
Cheers