UA, USA to China OJ from $303 ai
 

Some good open Jaw fares with throwaway segments to YVR.

Example routing is EWR-HKG-CAN // PVG-SFO-YVR

Transpacific legs on UA only, but able to route creativity, try adding stopovers in Canada, Japan, Hong Kong, Korea, or elsewhere in China. Works from East Coast and secondary airports too.

Here is an example. Enter manually on UA.bomb multi city tool for $5-10 lower price than google flights.

https://www.google.com/flights/#sear...9,SFOYVR0UA316

Also the Dragonair flight from HKG-CAN should be 'missable' without canceling the rest of your itinerary, just get a boarding pass at HKG for the flight.

Also the Dragonair flight from HKG-CAN should be 'missable' without canceling the rest of your itinerary, just get a boarding pass at HKG for the flight.[/QUOTE]

Wow.. That's a risky suggestion! I know for sure that trick doesn't work with the US airlines. Do you know for sure that would work with Dragonair?

Wow - very interesting. Thanks for the heads up!

Remember that if you arrive at CAN and leave from PVG or VV you can only do the 24 hour TWOV, even if you route through a third country in one direction as in this example.

Works from SFO too, for $328.

For a few dollars more choose YUL as the final destination and jump off in EWR; back where you may have started.

works for HGH for even less from SFO, got 273 for SFO-HKG-HGH//PEK-SFO-YVR

If someone needs miles, for $292, https://www.google.com/flights/#sear...0,SFOYVR0UA784 gives you a lot of miles with essentially one day between Hangzhou and Shanghai; an hour ride on high speed rail. Plus China visa fee.

I actually wouldn't suggest this? Not appearing for any segment on an itinerary will cancel all downstream segments.

Can we get any commentary from people that have actually done this with DragonAir/UA?

Yes. Basically you want to put as close a connection as possible at HKG. For example from EWR it's a 70 min connection. Then go through customs slowly and 'miss' your flight. Then alert UA you missed the connection and are getting 'different transportation' to CAN, HGH, etc, they will delete that segment and not cancel the itinerary. They might even compensate / refund you for the missed flight.

I hope you are joking. :( Compensation for missing flight on purpose? :confused:

This good stuff; shorter trip, lower price. If this originated in the NE I would jump on it.

Any other dates? Anything in August?

How do you contact UA at HKG about your "missed" connection, especially with no Hong Kong mobile phone service?

Wifi and Twitter.