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Find cheap flights to French Polynesia from $681

This is the cheapest one-way flight price found by a KAYAK user in the last 72 hours by searching for a flight from Australia to French Polynesia departing on 29/7. Fares are subject to change and may not be available on all flights or dates of travel. Click the price to replicate the search for this deal.
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Papeete
Papeete1 stop$1,354
Vaitape
Vaitape2 stops$1,995

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October

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June

Cheapest flight

$681
Best time to beat the crowds but there is an average 11% increase in price.
Most popular time to fly (14% more expensive on average)
Flight from Sydney to Papeete

FAQs - booking French Polynesia flights

  • How long is the flight to French Polynesia?

    An average direct flight from Australia to French Polynesia takes 22h 02m, covering a distance of 10618 km. The most popular route is Sydney - Papeete with an average flight time of 9h 05m.

  • What is the cheapest flight to French Polynesia?

    The cheapest ticket to French Polynesia from Australia found in the last 72 hours was $1,168. The most popular route is from Sydney to Papeete and the cheapest round-trip airline ticket found on this route in the last 72 hours was $1,229.

  • What are the most popular destinations in French Polynesia?

    The next most popular destinations are Vaitape (11%) and Temae (1%).

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Top 3 airlines flying to French Polynesia

Need help choosing which airline to fly with from Australia to French Polynesia? KAYAK airline reviews give an overall score for each airline based on loads of factors, including comfort, boarding, in-flight entertainment and more, to make your decision easier. See airline scores according to KAYAK reviews.
8.5
Air Tahiti NuiOverall score based on 78 reviews
87overall
81comfort
85boarding
75entertainment
79food
89crew
Airline reviews

I always love flying with Air Tahiti Nui: the flower when you board, the colors of the pillows/blankets, the fun safety video, etc. It brings the charm of Tahiti to the plane, which is very relaxing. Food was great. Only weakness is the entertainment system, which did not have a lot of interesting content, so I ended up watching Netflix shows I had downloaded to my phone. The other issue was not related to Air Tahiti but the Seattle airport, which made us wait for 1 hour at security. Ruined the whole flying experience and almost made me loose my next flight.

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I always love flying with Air Tahiti Nui: the flower when you board, the colors of the pillows/blankets, the fun safety video, etc. It brings the charm of Tahiti to the plane, which is very relaxing. Food was great. Only weakness is the entertainment system, which did not have a lot of interesting content, so I ended up watching Netflix shows I had downloaded to my phone. The other issue was not related to Air Tahiti but the Seattle airport, which made us wait for 1 hour at security. Ruined the whole flying experience and almost made me loose my next flight.

The service was really nice. The wine was great and the food was good. More water offered during the flight would have been nice.

Booked family of 4. None of us were seated together. Desk agent would not make any seat adjustments. Gate agent would not make any seat adjustments. Had to negotiate once on board with other passengers to trade seats. Don’t understand why you would separate seating of family all booked on same reservation. Was not able to select seats on Kayak nor Air Tahiti prior to airport.

Seats were roomy. Staff was great offering free drinks and refills constantly. Everything was very clean.

The sound system was so bad I could not watch movies.

Reclining seats with leg rest! Amazing flight crew! Loved the food! Everything was perfect!

The crew was very friendly and welcoming. Boarding was calm and organized. Take off and Landing was perfect and in time.

my luggage was damage. even if i put fragile in my bags. i was disappointed.

Very friendly and professional crew from check in to be working to flight crew to disembarkation.

Tahiti Nui Was great we did some business class, I don’t know how the regular seats were. LAX is horrible. I wish Tahiti Nui flew through San Diego

The staff and crew on board were excellent. Business class however, was very weird. I thought we would have individual pods, but the way it was set up was unexpected. Not very private and If you wanted to lay down, you had to have an entire bed made up for you by the crew, rather than how Delta one works where you could just lie down whenever you feel like it. It was a 16 hour flight. I chose not to have my bed made, and that turned out to be a good idea because everybody who had their bed made had to wait for the crew to roll up their mattresses. So strange!

Crew were pleasant, happy to be there and were a joy to be around. Entire operation was professional, well thought out and ran like a Swiss clock.

Couldn’t request a vegan meal somehow but I noticed other people getting them

United flight from SFO to PDX was cancelled. I will ask for a refund. Had to book on Alaska

They announced food service but then never came around. We also couldn’t land so kept trying to get to runway and then had to come up and go around happened like 3 times and cause the child next to me to start throwing up

Good food and entertainment options. Great Staff that were all welcoming and caregiving.

Flight was canceled due to technical issue shortly before the check-in counters opened. Passengers were rebooked on a flight three days later. Request to be accommodated on Air Tahiti Nui could not be processed. Customer service sorted out the refund after calling and being put on hold for almost an hour.

So here's the rub - my flight was booked through Chatdeal even though I bought it under the Kayak umbrella. All the return flights were theoretically through Air New Zealand, however except for the initial leg from New Zealand, they were all partnered flights. So when I arrived at the airport in New Zealand they could only issue me my ticket to Fiji. Once in Fiji I had to do some serious leg work and finagling to get my ticket to Los Angeles through Fiji Air. This included a monitored covid RAT that I wasn't aware I needed to do. So I gave the score I did because of the complexity and annoyance created in the process of getting a boarding pass for my Nadi-LA flight.

Just a hiccup being added to the NZ Traveller Declaration a bit late.

Boarding instructions on one leg of my journey were not well communicated at the gate (Melbourne to Auckland)

It's only a short trip from Sydney to Melbourne, which i have done many times. The trip met my expectations

I really appreciated the fact that when I checked my bags at the Quantas counter after arriving from an international flight an hour early, the agent noticed I had a very long layover. He then found an earlier flight that allowed me to get to Cairns several hours earlier than I planned. That was amazing because I had already traveled over 20 hours and wasn’t looking forward to such a long layover. It allowed me to see my daughter and grandchildren much earlier (it had been two years since I visited last).

Qantas cancelled my flight for no good reason and rebooked me into a middle seat.

The flight met my expectations. It left and landed on time

Everything as good as can be if one flies economy bit not enough toilets!! People were queuing during the whole flight - there are really not enough toilets!!!

Flights delayed multiple times, travellers requests for updates ignored. Qantas continues to desatisfy travelling basics.

They actually held the plane for a few minutes and had someone at the escalators from Qantas checking to see if we were almost at the gate and radioed ahead to tell them that we were on our way. We called down to the person and gave her our names, coming as fast as we could.

Better food, hotter coffee, otherwise it was a very smooth and reasonably comfortable flight.

First time flying in Qantas. There is zero WiFi on the flight to/from Australia. Crew was great both routes - very attentive, personalized service. Pleasant staff throughout.

Packed flight. Urged to check carry-on before boarding only to discover numerous empty overhead bins after boarding. Challenging entertainment screen. After almost 20 minutes to arrive at baggage claim, waited over 30 mins before luggage was loaded on baggage claim carousel.

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Recent return flight deals

22/4Mon
1 stopAir New Zealand
10h 40mSYD-PPT
6/5Mon
1 stopAir New Zealand
10h 35mPPT-SYD
$1,354
13/5Mon
1 stopAir New Zealand
10h 40mSYD-PPT
3/6Mon
1 stopAir New Zealand
10h 35mPPT-SYD
$1,355
25/4Thu
1 stopAir Tahiti Nui
9h 05mSYD-PPT
4/5Sat
1 stopAir Tahiti Nui
13h 25mPPT-SYD
$1,417
18/8Sun
1 stopAir New Zealand
28h 15mSYD-PPT
30/8Fri
1 stopAir New Zealand
10h 35mPPT-SYD
$1,421
24/5Fri
1 stop
10h 15mBNE-PPT
29/5Wed
1 stop
13h 00mPPT-BNE
$1,443
24/5Fri
1 stop
10h 40mSYD-PPT
29/5Wed
1 stop
10h 30mPPT-SYD
$1,449
1/6Sat
1 stopAir Tahiti Nui
23h 50mMEL-PPT
8/6Sat
1 stopAir Tahiti Nui
13h 00mPPT-MEL
$1,452
30/4Tue
2 stopsAircalin
13h 15mSYD-PPT
7/5Tue
2 stopsAircalin
28h 40mPPT-SYD
$1,521
1/6Sat
2 stopsQantas Airways
25h 20mMEL-PPT
8/6Sat
2 stopsQantas Airways
17h 10mPPT-MEL
$1,538
29/5Wed
2 stopsQantas Airways
23h 30mMEL-PPT
1/6Sat
1 stopQantas Airways
13h 00mPPT-MEL
$1,634

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29/7Mon
1 stop
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28/7Sun
1 stop
30h 20mBNE-PPT
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10/7Wed
1 stopAir New Zealand
13h 45mMEL-PPT
$743
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10h 50mSYD-PPT
$744
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$758
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$909
6/9Fri
1 stopAircalin
26h 00mSYD-PPT
$1,116
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