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Want cheaper plane tickets? Here’s how we get them

Millie Muroi Economics Writer November 13, 2025 — 11.05pm Advertisement

I’ve been relatively lucky. I book the red-eye return flight every time I visit my family in Perth, and I always fly there from Sydney instead of where I’m based in Canberra even if means an extra 3-hour bus ride. I always choose overseas flights with the most inconvenient stopovers (all purely to save money), and I’ve done my fair share of flying over the years.

This week, though, I was chatting with a friend here in Canberra who told me she had taken only two flights in her life.

“Do you not have much of a desire to travel?” I asked her out of curiosity. “I would love to go to Melbourne,” she said. “But I think I

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