Originally Posted by
mlin32
+1 on the exorbitant prices to China and Taiwan. I was hoping to visit extended family in Taiwan over the end of the year holidays (like everyone else), but ticket prices from Europe direct or via mainland China (PVG) are all at least double what they normally are.
Guess it's going to have to wait another year.
Europe to Taiwan isn't so expensive if you are flexible wrt routings. For example Europe-BKK is cheap and BKK-TPE is not exhorbidant. The mainland is more difficult because most regional flights into China are exhorbidant. Korea (and Taiwan, actually) are notable exceptions.