Star Alliance member SWISS currently offers a very sexy partner sale from Amsterdam. The absolute highlights of this sale are the €1,757 business class roundtrips to Auckland and, even better, €1,557 roundtrips to Sydney. All itineraries feature two layovers – one in Zurich and one in East Asia, most likely in Singapore or Hong Kong.
This is a partner sale – you have to purchase tickets for two adults to get the quoted price.
You will fly in Swiss’ business class within Europe and onwards to Singapore or Bangkok. From these airports, you will enjoy Singapore Airlines’ (SIN) or THAI’s (BKK) luxurious premium products to Sydney. If you’re flying to Auckland, you’ll usually fly to Hong Kong, and then continue to Auckland with Cathay Pacific.
We expect further shakeups in the airline industry over the following months. Some services might be cancelled, aircraft changed or downgraded. The schedule we describe may very well change.
Search & Book
The fare rules state that this deal expires on January 11, 2021 and covers flights until December 2021. You can find flight dates on Google Flights (instructions). You should then book the flights to Auckland via Lufthansa’s landing page (most convenient option).
Flights to Sydney can be booked via SWISS’ website. Don’t forget to enter at least 2 adults in every search mask, since this is a partner sale! It is also important that you select “Lufthansa Group” for Airline:
When proceeding with a booking, you’ll be presented a selection of all available flight options. Once you’ve reached this site, make sure to select exactly the same flights as seen in Google Flights. Otherwise you’d have to try all available combinations – reaching from about €15,000 to €1,500 roundtrip.
Mileage
Most of the flights are in booking class P. Thai Airways issues them in booking class Z. This booking class will accrue 100% of the mileage in most Star Alliance frequent flyer programs. Flying to Sydney via Bangkok (outbound) and Singapore (inbound) should get you the following number of miles:
- 26,401 Award Miles + 760 Points on Miles&More
- 26,029 Miles on TAP Miles&Go
- 25,723 Miles on Singapore KrisFlyer
- 24,545 Miles on Turkish Airlines Miles&Smiles
- 24,145 Points on SAS EuroBonus
- 23,945 Miles on Aegean Miles+Bonus
- 23,695 Miles on Egyptair Plus
- 22,527 Award Miles + 21,360 Tier Miles on Avianca LifeMiles
- 22,527 Miles on EVA Infinity MileageLands
- 22,527 Miles on Ethiopian ShebaMiles
- 22,527 Miles on Asiana Club
- 22,527 Miles on Thai Royal Orchid Plus
- 22,527 Award Miles + 4,029 PQP on United MileagePlus
- 22,153 Miles on Air Canada Aeroplan
- 18,694 Miles on ANA Mileage Club
- 16,691 Miles on Copa ConnectMiles
- 12,780 Award Miles on LATAM Pass
- 3,911 Miles on Alaska Mileage Plan
- 3,911 CV Points on Vistara Club Vistara
- 3,911 Award Miles + 50 Tier Points on Virgin Atlantic Flying Club
- 1,956 Points on JetBlue TrueBlue
Hotels
Before booking any hotels, check out our list of vouchers available for hotels and chains all around the world:
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Comments (2)
Is there a special going the other way.
Auckland to Amsterdam return?
Cheers Noel
Hi Noel! Sadly, this offer is only valid for trips from Europe to New Zealand, not the other way round. The cheapest business class offer on the other direction currently comes from China Airlines, features to stops in Brisbane and Taipei and sports a price tag of €2,850 (NZD 4,864). https://www.google.com/flights#flt=AKL.AMS.2020-09-16*AMS.AKL.2020-09-30;c:EUR;e:1;sc:b;sd:1;t:f