According to their app, a round trip from Beijing to SFO is EIGHTEEN THOUSAND FUCKING DOLLARS for basic economy. Beijing to Newark is 9000. According to Expedia, Beijing to SFO through Newark is 2700 for basic economy. Apparently going halfway around the world and adding a transcontinental flight on the end reduces your ticket price by 15000 dollars?
Airlines are weird. Was looking the other day and a direct from JFK to Seoul was $2000, but on the same dates a JFK to Ho Chi Minh City flight was $800. The weird part is that the JFK to Ho Chi Minh has a layover in Seoul. Same airline both times. The flight you take to get to Seoul from JFK for the Ho Chi Minh trip is the plane you’d take from JFK to Seoul. But somehow it’s cheaper to do that flight and then go to Vietnam?!
That’s a TOS violation, and they can sue you for cheating them.
British Rail does it all the time.
I remember there was a whole site set up dedicated to find cheaper layover flights like this and airlines got really mad.
Can they really prove that you didn’t just have a potty emergency and hang out in the stall till the plane leaves?
This is an excuse to take the train to China. It might actually be faster.
Capitalist efficiency in action
Use skyscanner
Death to America
I think the Chinese gov has imposed a cap on how many flights can come to China from the US (last I heard is one flight per one route per one week or something, maybe there are a few more now, still the supply/demand is totally wrecked), because, you know, the US has been killing more than 1 mill of its own people with some pandemic thingy …
Haven’t seen my parents since 2018 :sadness:
