Royal Brunei or.....Jetstar

[Piano Man]

Am looking at travelling to Singapore and KL in June, and one priority is to get the cheapest flights as possible. Flying from East Coast Australia, there are really two options:

1. Jetstar to Singapore via Darwin (A320/A321)
2. Royal Brunei to Singapore via Brunei (777/A319)

Does anyone have any opinions or feedback on the aforementioned airlines on these routes?

[cj-maranup]

Royal Brunei are dry - no booze on board - but otherwise pretty good. They were 6 years ago anyway... Brunei airport was pretty unexciting, but I don't know that Darwin is that flash either?

Are the direct flights so much more expensive that it's worth the hassle of a stopover?

[Crusher1]

Used RBA last year, everything was fine and on schedule, very good value. Brunei is a pretty small airport and nothing much to do, however you can atke a trip into town if the stop over is long enough.

We had the old 767 and onward a A320, I would imagine that the 777's now in service will offer a better product, don't go expecting SIA standards for a budget price though, but as a good value airline worth a try.

[derab]

Have you thought about Air Asia ex OOL or MEL?
then it would be SIN Via KUL.

[Phileas Fogg]

If you can get, all the way across, to Perth and back cheaply then you might enjoy the joys :) of Tiger Airways to/from SIN/KUL.