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The Old School Solution to Long-Haul Travel
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The Old School Solution to Long-Haul Travel

I love to travel, but I hate sitting on aeroplanes. It’s time to act more like a traveller and less like a tourist…

This video demonstrates the advantages of breaking up a long journey by air. It looks at two options for travelling between New Zealand and India.

The obvious solution would be to go to one of the usual websites (Google Flights or Skyscanner) and take their best recommendation. That would mean a cost of $677 and a journey time of almost 24 hours.

The solution is to break up the journey:

FromToFlight TimeCost
AucklandSydney3 hr 35 min$91
SydneyBangkok9 hr 50 min$232
BangkokKolkata2 hr 30 min$121
Total$444

This not only saves $233 on flights, but more importantly provides an opportunity to break up the journey and avoid jet lag.

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