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Old Feb 25, 2016 | 3:41 am
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Originally Posted by jiajun
I want to know what will happen if I try to pay the fare in USD from the USA-English version website with my Chinese credit card?
You are correct, it is what happened to you last time; the billing address of the credit card is the key. You need to select the country of billing address. If it's a Chinese card and you choose USA and US$ it simply reverts back to China and CNY.

Added: You need to select appropriate country where it asks: "Country associated with your billing address", and here's the skinny:
https://www.united.com/web/en-US/con...ssCountry.aspx

Originally Posted by jiajun
When I select the China-English version of website to get the fares in CNY there is no K fare available any more and the price is now double.
They must have changed something recently as I too see the same thing as of a week ago or so. HUGE price/fare class difference between EWR-PEK-EWR in U$ and PEK-EWR-PEK in CNY. It used to be about the same in the past.
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