The film “Crocodile Dundee” captured our imagination. Suddenly, we wanted to be riding jeeps through the Australian outback to rescue endangered kangaroos, we wanted to crack a bull whip, we wanted to see snakes and crocodiles in the wild, and we wanted to enjoy a nice can of Fosters at the pub. So we travel to Australia, one of the biodiversity capitals of the world. It is a place where Christmas comes in the summer, flying fox bats the size of our dogs squabble in trees and the surf is always amazing.

If you’re looking for flights to Australia, then you may want to first check one of the four main air carriers, which are Qantas, JetStar, Tiger Airways and Virgin Blue. Qantas has been around the longest and, as a result, offers the most options. They have a flyer miles program and offer specials, like a flight from LA or San Francisco to Sydney for $1098 round trip. Flying from NYC would cost you $300 more. Tiger Airways is new as of 2007 and offers cheaper fares, as does discount airliner JetStar.

Once you’re in Australia, if you need to fly around, then you’ll likely go through Regional Express (Rex Airlines), which flies to South Australia, Adelaide, Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney, Maryborough, Broken Hill, Olympic Dam and Coober Pedy. Australia sometimes offers “value travel passes” for as low as $499, which covers unlimited standby travel for a month. If you’re flying to smaller cities in Western Australia and the Northern Territory, then you can catch a flight with Skywest. You can fly into Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, Alice Springs, Cairns, Darwin or Tasmania.

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