Originally Posted by
anacapamalibu
In the scenario the traveler describes. The airline made an error and allowed
the travelers to board and be flown to china with an itinerary which doesn't comply with TWOV rules. They got to China and were denied entry. The question is, if a traveler arrives to China with an itinerary that does not meet the rules...will immigration offer them a chance to change their itinerary to comply or immediately deny entry with no attempt to mitigate the situation?
Originally Posted by
jiejie
Normally the latter. Denial of entry and return to origin. Don't get any on-the-spot "do-overs."
Friends of ours were incorrectly permitted boarding by CX for a HKG-PVG-HKG itinerary. (The full intended itinerary was LAX-HKG-PVG-HKG-LAX.)
On arrival at PVG they were offered a choice - either straight back to HKG, or arrange onward flights to the USA and enter under 72 hour TWOV.
They chose to enter China and CX as inbound carrier was told to help them to organise tickets - which they did, on AA metal, but at full one-way 'walk-up' prices.
They considered themselves lucky. This was a faailure on their behalf, but also on CX's.
I flew a few days later ex HKG to PVG also on TWOV. The CX check-in took an extra long time processing the boarding pass and approving the itinerary - no doubt some 'reminder' had been issued to check-in!