Originally Posted by
littlevoices
I think
brunos and I have the same thought. Ignore the misconnection risk and just fix the visa risk in advance. It sounds like you're used to this and also got a good deal on the original fare (maybe? I'm still not convinced but you can look in a few weeks and see if that's the case. It's rare that a direct flight into hong kong is cheaper, but I mentioned CNY and with Tet you've the same challenge, though for a single country).
Indeed, we are in agreement.
Like you said, I would have waited till fares SYD-HAN had been made available. Whatever promotion you got on SYD-HKG (including a lot of restrictions),it is likely that you will end up with a larger cost to book separately the HKG-HAN. Anyway HKG-HAN is a very short flight (flight time less than 2h0, so Y is quite bearable.
CNY and Tet always fall on the same dates (2026 17 February), so it is an extremely busy travel season in Asia.