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Jan 3, 2018, 7:57 am

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Originally Posted by Kmxu

I encountered a similar problem even MCT at HKG (or anywhere else) was not violated, Here is an example: https://www.google.com/flights/#sear...QB0AC8912;eo=e
When I searched this deal via HNL and GUM, this error occurred. For example, https://www.google.com/flights/#sear...YYZ0UA228;eo=e
Any suggestion is appreciated in both instances. Perhaps, the solution may be the same.

I can price out your first itinerary on UA.com by doing a multi-city search for BWI-HGH, PEK-BWI, BWI-YYZ, YYZ-YQB and interestingly it comes out to $318.91 not the $332 that google flights gives. But searching directly on UA.com works! and is cheaper! Haven't tried the second one yet but I suspect judicious use of the multi-city search tool might work as well.

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Originally Posted by mpiotrow

I'm wondering if these errors have anything to do with the HKG-HGH segment on CX...perhaps United isn't able to book that CX segment? If I load the UA website, and do a multi-city search, and include HKG-HGH as one of the segments, I don't get any CX flight options for that segment. Just a thought...I don't know if that's what's really going on or not.

To get the HKG-HGH segment on KA you usually need to search USA-HGH and it'll appear in the results. My suspicion as to why the links from google flights fail is that google flights has the HKG-HGH segment listed as the CX codeshare number (CX5622/5626) but .bomb sells it under the native KA code (KA622/626). But who knows though.

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