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?
if you fly through hong kong its like 1.7k and any high speed rail to anywhere in china is basically 8 hours long and costs 100 bucks for a round trip first class seat. if you want cheaper i heard tourists can get a normal seat for like 10 or 20 bucks, cheaper for chinese citizens
The prices are the same for everyone in China. No “foreigners prices”, no matter what that white person who lived in Beijing for a year will tell you.
just a hong konger i know, theyre asian :shrug-outta-hecks: they say certain areas get better discounts due to average wage changes
Use skyscanner
Death to America
I’ve had Chinese friends complaining about the cost of flights pretty much since they started doing regular flights in/out of China a year or two ago
