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erose · Joined: 22 Mar 2005 Posts: 7

Can anyone direct me to a good website to price flights within China?
Who are the main carriers?
Cheers, Emily

cujobytes · Posted: Tue May 10, 2005 5:29 am Post subject: >

China Southern. Google it.

kev7161 · Joined: 06 Feb 2004 Posts: 5880 Location: Suzhou, China

http://www.ctrips.com

http://www.dragonair.com

nolefan · Joined: 14 Jan 2004 Posts: 1458 Location: on the run

elong.net

best deals around

mike w · Posted: Tue May 10, 2005 10:18 am Post subject: agencies

Be very careful with agencies. They advertise some very attractive fares, but often the fares don't really exist. In some cases the flights don't even exist.

elong is a good example. They recently advertised a single fare from Beijing to Harbin for RMB400 (the normal fare is 920). My g/f contacted them, and even booked a ticket with them which was going to be delivered the next day. Later that day we checked with China Southern, whose flight it was, for the arrival time in Harbin, only to find out that the flight did not exist! In fact no airline had a flight at the time stated by elong. When my g/f called them back to query this, they denied all knowledge of her reservation, but offered her a seat on a different flight at RMB880! Sounds like a scam to me!

There are good agencies and not so good agencies - be careful.

clomper · Joined: 07 Oct 2003 Posts: 251 Location: Beijing

A good way to check flight information is through this website. www.abacus.net

I haven't tried elong.net yet but they do post some deals. Sometimes your city's local travel agencies have promos.

Claudine

fat tony · Joined: 21 Jan 2005 Posts: 86 Location: UK

Hi mike w,

Is your avatar MEANT to look like the Australian PM John Howard? There's an uncanny resemblance there.

fat tony

mike w · Posted: Wed May 11, 2005 3:05 am Post subject:

Pure coincidence fat tony - honestly!!

clarrie · Joined: 05 Apr 2005 Posts: 75

never had a problem booking flights to different destinations and receiving tickets. Some agencies on occasions actually looked for much better deals for me and they always made me aware of peak times and off-peak, if you like; eg, dalian to jinan, some days 900+ other days 400 +. MAke a few phone calls and see if you can also get a flight timetable.