My wife and I were planning to fly from PEK-SFO around the 16th of August and the fares were out of this world. They were jumping every day from 22,000 RMB to around 16,000 RMB today.

we decided to put it off until next month, Sept., and booked a 8,500 RMB R/T per person. the agent we use said the planes are about 80% but the fares are still high.