Originally Posted by
armagebedar
I was doing a business class fare search on an OTA and for some reason, Ctrip returned a fare that was about 50% the going rate for that particular route.
I would hazard to guess that the restriction in question was imposed by CX itself because, as you point out, the fare is 50% less than on their own website.
During Expo, MU and FM were running lots of PRC-citizen only fares (on many channels). Technically, dual pricing is a violation of China's 2005 WTO obligations, but the airlines in question had a clever work around iirc.