Originally Posted by Rami Tamimi

You can book normal (not full fare) tickets on trip.com without Chinese phone/card, it will probably be 10% or so higher then if you were to book it via the really local websites like ctrip (which is the same company as trip.com), but yes as you said if you book via most OTAs overseas, they only have access to the full Y/J fares on domestic flights and same goes for the EN websites of some airlines.

Recognition wise, Sichuan is much better, but it is a bit of a nice carrier.