Flights to Australia for €12: Incredible deal persuades tourists to fly halfway across the world

It sounds far too good to be true, but £10 (€12) flights to Australia are up for grabs next month.

The heavily discounted tickets - flights from London to Adelaide are typically closer to €1,000 - are intended to entice more overseas workers to visit.

Young Europeans have long seen Australia as a land of opportunity - a place to learn a new trade, or travel on a shoestring under the sun. And with travel restrictions finally easing this year, the South Australian Tourism Commission has launched this campaign to win them back.

Prospective travellers must be aged between 18 and 30 in the UK, or 18 and 35 in Ireland, and be prepared to fly to Adelaide before 30 September 2022.

200 of the incredibly cheap return tickets go on sale with Qatar Airways from May, departing Heathrow, Manchester, Edinburgh and Dublin.

“South Australia is welcoming the return of working holiday makers – it’s a real win-win for young people eager to travel and work abroad, and for our local tourism industry,” says South Australian minister for tourism Zoe Bettison.

“Our tourism operators have missed having international visitors on their tours and experiences and booking up accommodation, and they’ve also missed the backpacker workforce and the vibrancy they bring.”

In a throwback to the ‘ten pound poms’ programme - a £10 assisted passage migration scheme which launched in 1945 - jobs are available in hospitality, outback stations and farms.

As well as meeting the criteria above, young people from Britain and Ireland will need to obtain a working holiday visa. You don’t have to already have a job lined up when you apply.

This costs 495 Australian dollars (around €333) and lasts for 12 months. But if you fall in love with the outback, you may be able to extend