Originally Posted by
Aviating
In my experience you get AY only (no CA) if one of the legs is to or from HKG. The price is about the same as PVG.
Yes, I noticed that too. It makes sense since HK is not mainland and CA has no reasons to share codes on those flights. But this time I had no business reasons to go to HKG or SZX.
Originally Posted by WilcoRoger
Avoid the codeshare
I would if it were solely up to me. But sometimes the price difference is simply unjustifiable
This first time, I got
75% lucky: AY Basic outbound, AY Value return