domestic transfer to international-check in again?
Apr 10, 2017, 4:33 pm
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The flight from TAO was practically empty. Everyone had their own row. So I can see why it is so cheap.
But I find it interesting how CZ is so much more expensive than MU (I mean, on other flighta from China as well when I have searched before). Did it become China's premium airline?
But I find it interesting how CZ is so much more expensive than MU (I mean, on other flighta from China as well when I have searched before). Did it become China's premium airline?
If you were to buy TAO-KIX in isolation, you would also be in for sticker shock because MU has a monopoly on that product (nonstop).
Since there are numerous connecting options between CAN and KIX, it makes sense that these are priced more competitively.
Apr 10, 2017, 5:13 pm
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That's why don't buy CAN-HKG alone. KA's CAN-HKG is usually of zero or negative cost with a long-haul CX connection. Almost everyone on that flight is transiting in HKG.
Apr 11, 2017, 12:36 am
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Flying from HRB to MEL via PVG my luggage was checked in at HRB for direct to MEL. They unloaded it from the HRB to PVG flight and loaded onto the PVG to MEL flight. Then, they unloaded it from that flight before it took off because I missed the boarding. I've got a cancelled 10th of April exit stamp above a 11th of April exit stamp to show for it.
Apr 11, 2017, 1:54 am
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It is standard procedure in China to use your final departing location from Chinese soil, as the Exit Immigration and Customs processing point. In your example, CAN-TAO as a standard domestic segment, then TAO as your China exit point. Since you have to take your possessions through Exit Customs by hand, the airline could not through-check your luggage at CAN to USA. While theoretically you should be able to do all this Exit procedure at CAN and just do TAO as a connection, in practice the physical setup of the airports and their process of handling baggage makes this difficult.
Apr 11, 2017, 7:36 am
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Other countries may have exit customs but not obvious, e.g., US does enforce export control laws, but you don't see exit customs at the airport. In 1998 during the Asian Financial Crisis, custom agents sometimes checked passengers to see if they were carrying more than USD10,000.
Apr 11, 2017, 9:26 am
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Flying from HRB to MEL via PVG my luggage was checked in at HRB for direct to MEL. They unloaded it from the HRB to PVG flight and loaded onto the PVG to MEL flight. Then, they unloaded it from that flight before it took off because I missed the boarding. I've got a cancelled 10th of April exit stamp above a 11th of April exit stamp to show for it.
Which ones? I'm genuinely curious, since the ones I've been through have Exit Customs and I'm racking my brain as to which Chinese airports with regularly scheduled international commercial flights don't have. Maybe something like Yanji YNJ or Quanzhou JJN?
Apr 11, 2017, 10:47 am
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I don't recall there is exit customs at PEK T3E. I fly out of there about 4 times a year.
Apr 11, 2017, 11:03 am
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Apr 11, 2017, 11:10 am
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Yes there is, it's right after the Immigration + Security Sequence. It's just so informal and low key that you think you're walking straight into the central space of T3, but there are Customs officers around keeping a lazy eye on things, and some usually-unused tables where they can pull somebody over and inspect. I have only rarely see them do so (usually to departing Chinese citizens). Otherwise, you just go right through it and as with you, it doesn't even register that you're doing so.