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Old Feb 25, 2016 | 8:58 am
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Originally Posted by jiajun
I was looking at some cheap k fares HKG-EWR on the USA-English version of United website. 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.
Point of sale restriction. Very common.

Originally Posted by narvik
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.
Those are completely different fares. Originating in the US vs. originating in China. If they were previously "the same" (which I doubt) it was just a coincidence.
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