Originally Posted by
kyanar
I thought it a little curious that they wouldn't be available on international flights so I had a quick look around. From what I can see, most airlines don't actually offer any sort of compassionate fare at all - though many will offer additional flexibility on existing or new bookings for compassionate reasons. In fact, Air New Zealand is the only Australiasian carrier left that actually has compassionate fares (Qantas, Jetstar, Virgin Australia, and the foreign carriers going trans-tasman including Fiji and Emirates don't), and as of 2014 that was "under review", meaning at some point it's possible that it'll just go away.