Love a food flight sale? Us too. Mark you calendars because these Jetstar sales are ones you definitely won't want to miss.

Sporadic throughout the year, Jetstar will offer a free return fare when you buy an outbound ticket. Japan has become a popular destination in this sale, with fares going for as low as AU$300 return from Australia.

Sample prices we saw in a recent Jetstar return for free sale:

In 2024, this was the airline's Black Friday sale.

Every Friday (unless there’s another sale on) Jetstar offers a “fare frenzy” with discounted flights for either a few hours on Friday or running through the weekend.

When it's just a Friday sale, it typically starts at noon and runs until 8pm. The weekend sales usually start at the same time, but continue until midnight on Monday.

Kicking off sometime in June, Jetstar often discounts fares as part of the country-wide end of financial year sales. We've seen a few variations of this sale before, sometimes called a "Mid-Year" sale or, if starting a few weeks later, a "New Financial Year" sale.

On the fourth Friday in November (he day after American Thanksgiving), Jetstar joins the sale party and heavily discounts fares over the Black Friday/Cyber Monday weekend.

While it's not always a return-for-free deal, in both 2023 and 2024 the airline combined the two stellar offers and allowed travellers to pay just one-way for fares on Black Friday. That's essentially 50% off fares!

Sample prices we saw in a recent Jetstar Black Friday sale:

Just because Christmas is over, it doesn’t mean the gifts end because Jetstar often offers a Boxing Day flight sale (sometimes dubbed the "Day After Christmas Sale" where you can score cheap flights in the year to come.

It's also a great excuse to pick up a flight that you've got some FOMO about post-Black Friday!

Sometimes dropping around Australia Day and other times it's just an excuse to have a domestic sale, but Jetstar regularly has an "Aussie Sale" or "Australia Sale" where fares for flights around the country drop to some pretty incredible prices.

It's the perfect time to finally explore your own backyard to those further-flung destinations like Darwin, the Red Centre, the Great Barrier Reef and Tasmania.

It may not be our birthdays, but we're certainly getting some great gifts every May/June. Jetstar often discount fares to celebrate its birthday. It often (but unfortunately not always) comes with price tags matching the airline's age which meant some pretty incredible deals considering it's been operating for less than 25 years.

In 2024 for its 20th birthday, flights for AU$29 each way. Here's some sample routes:

When a new Jetstar route is launched, it often comes with a great sale attached. For example, when the airline launched new flights to Sunshine Coast to Auckland and Cairns to Christchurch, it offered a special price from $215 each way for just 24 hours.

Although a paid membership, Club Jetstar members have exclusive access to sales which, more often than not, pays for the membership in savings. It does this in two ways:

Membership is currently $65 per year and also includes a 20% discount on baggage and seat selection and a $50 Jetstar Hotels voucher. You can also use the discount to book flights for groups of up to four people, which can really help you save.