Originally Posted by
Othernel
Thanks for the reply.
I understand the hidden city discount, but I just didn't understand how routing through HK would drop the overall price of the ticket.
I also priced out the legs individually and it came to much more.
Ah, OK, I didn't realize you had already tried that; I thought you were just comparing multi-city itineraries with and without the HKG transfer.
You may be able to find flights that have a shorter connection time, but you won't be able to get that fare without transiting HKG.