Heureka, first time since I have arrived in Ningbo and travelled across China I am able to login to Flyertalk without cloudflare....must be because I am in Shanghai right now.

Back to the topic. I just skiplagged on SC NKG-TAO-HKG the HKG flight as well.

I am not going to lie, when I saw that at Nanjing Airport that Shandong Airlines and Qingdao Airlines used the same Check-In counter I was literally sitting on needles, but in the end in NKG as well as on the next day in TAO neither the Check-in agents nor the Security Check officer gave a damn....well, if I am banned from Shandong Airlines in the future I might have to pay a few EUR extra for the codeshare on the same flight.

I think Narvik has E-Channel in China.

Lately it seems that immigration is becoming more relaxed anyway...or maybe only with visafree countries.