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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Australia is huge. They are prepared to pay for internal Australia flights, I hope?

Melbourne to Sydney is a little over 500 miles, about the same as DC to Charleston. Cairns (to get to GBR) is another 1,000 or more. If your itinerary there does not include domestic flights I might consider dropping Melbourne or Sydney. Of the two, I would keep Melbourne as it is more authentically Australian IMO [/quote]

Cost not an issue. They’ll pay for all flights. Sounds like I should plan a full travel day for each flight within Australia, right? [b]Kind of want to end in Cairns but not sure about flying home from there. Does that change any advice?[/b][/quote]

Probably not- you definitely can't fly directly to the US from Cairns, but there are now a number of flights from Brisbane, which is about a 2 hour flight from Cairns, and you can easily connect same day.  Brisbane is a good deal close to the US than SYD/MEL because it's so far north, so that's a perfectly reasonable strategy- with the caveat that there aren't as many flight options from Brisbane to the US, so some optimal connections on the US side might be tougher.  Example- there are no flights from Brisbane to DFW, but there are from SYD, which makes connections to DC a lot easier.[/quote]

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