Originally Posted by
drvannostren
Ok, so I'm racking my brain and reading 250+ posts, plus doing brut force searching on ITA/Google...
I know there's fare rules, I'm not sure where they are, nor if I'd know how to read them, but can someone post them?
Also/alternatively, I'm just trying to figure out what I CAN search rather than just blindly searching. The HKG-HGH thing works, but I can't figure out what other combos work or aren't worth searching.
I'm YVR based, am totally prepared to position to SFO or from SFO one way since YVR seems to work at least one way. SEA is doable, but only really both ways cuz I can leave my car there and pick it up on the other end. I can't figure out why the eastern ones seems to be cheaper, but that's just airfares in general. I'd love to do a stopover in GUM, or NRT, as some others have but I can't seem to replicate. Don't need it as a mileage run, I was gonna go to south east asia end of March, but a trip to Southern China could be just as fun and half the price. Last 2 weeks of March returning first week of April. Totally fine doing all the researching myself, but does anyone have a list or something of cities that work?
Seems to me costs of intra city trips in China are fairly expensive, HGH-PVG is pretty easy via train, but I found when I was in China before and researching that because the govt controls the prices of airfares, even the LCCs aren't terribly cheap.
Hmm if you want a stopover in NRT and don't mind staying in one Chinese city how about this:
https://goo.gl/flights/PwjF
SFO-HKG-HGH-NRT HND-YVR for $467.50. 10 days in HGH and 4 in TYO. For more time in Tokyo you can push the HND-YVR segment back even further (7/8/9/10/11 departure all seem to work) but I can't seem to get HGH-NRT any earlier than the 2nd. HGH-NRT should be on the NH A320neo if that's vaguely interesting to you. SFO-HGH PEK-YVR and SFO-HGH PVG-YVR price out around $360 but I guess you don't want PVG or PEK.
And CTU doesn't seem to work.
Actually CTU does work: SFO-HKG-HGH / CTU-SFO-YVR for $416.50
https://goo.gl/flights/cDwy
And on a whim I tried most of the other NH destinations in China and you can do SFO-HKG-HGH WUH-NRT-SFO-YVR for $482
https://goo.gl/flights/v2Gd (and Wuhan on a map seems to be relatively close to Hangzhou; according to Wikipedia there's also HSR from Shanghai/Nanjing if you want to avoid flying).
And going even further away from HGH some other options include SFO-HKG-HGH TAO-NRT HND-YVR for $468 (
https://goo.gl/flights/ayff) — i.e. replace HGH-NRT with TAO-NRT in the first link. Or replace TAO with DLC or SHE for the same price as well (
https://goo.gl/flights/KQMe and
https://goo.gl/flights/sQyq respectively). I have no idea where these places are just that NH flies to them and you can see a pattern here.
(If you don't want the TYO stop there are things like SFO-HKG-HGH DLC-NRT-SEA-YVR for $409
https://goo.gl/flights/cncG or SFO-HKG-HGH SHE-NRT-SFO-YVR for $482
https://goo.gl/flights/rN3K but those just sound painful).
Edit: Forgot you use CAD so these aren't that cheap after all... (except maybe SFO-HGH CTU-YVR)