Originally Posted by
moondog
I'm in Nanning again now, and going between here and the US really is quite annoying. The problem is the airlines that serve logical connecting points (like TPE or HKG) aren't the same airlines that can take me across the Pacific. I'm not sure opening up Taiwan to PRC nationals would change the market dynamics enough to justify BR or CI trying it out Nanning and places like it. After all, HKG has no such restriction, and KA hasn't been able to sustain many of its tier 2 city routes (though it does still place its code on a fair number of them).
Well of course it depends where in the US you are going. If your flying to Vancouver, Honolulu, LA,San Fransisco or New York then they do provide the service to fly on to the US.
Maybe their time schedules are not suitable right now for connections but they dont worry about that right now considering there is no on connecting traffic.
You can get CI and I maybe even BR all the way. Its under a code sharing agreement with Air china and China southern.
But anyway CI and BR dont fly there only because they are not allowed to. That's the whole point about this transiting thing they want to open up China more to their services. They have older planes they could retire or preferably use on short haul routes to China to fill the capacity gap until more new inventory comes.
Also another thing to add is that places like Nanning until recently lacked much of a market who wanted to travel overseas. Also not as wealthy as 1st tier cities. But that is changing gradually. With the interest of Chinese to visit Taiwan and connect on to places like US the route is viable.