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Air China - Dumbfounding - No Business Class PEK-Shanghai loaded all year
I fly this route all the time. They operate many international widebodies on this route daily, some to SHA and some to PVG (from PEK). I always fly business, sometime even first in a 3 cabin. I have been trying for months to buy a ticket for March 8. They only have one flight available for sale. The others are all limited to selling coach seats only. Then I realized - this phenomenon is true all year, only 1 or 2 flights loaded for business class or first class sale on any given day - and on some days, no flights at all. Even next week! So I thought maybe they are trying to piss off Americans in the trade war. But I had our firm's China office try to buy in China - on Chinese website, by calling - they are being told "those fares have not been loaded yet". This is dumbfounding - so they are flying empty cabins next week because no fares are loaded? Has anyone ever seen any situation like this?