Originally Posted by
cavemanzk
DPS is becoming an bit like SIN/HKG, where it’s cheaper to fly through them than stop there.
Often you’ll see CX do say AKL-HKG-China mainline, for $100s less than than AKL-HKG.
Or when I booked AKL-SIN-HAN last week, it was $400 cheaper than just flying AKL-SIN on the same flight.
Yes. Very common to see this.
In 2016 I booked my son on TG AKL-BKK-NRT return.
48 hours in NRT and 3 weeks in BKK (which was the actual destination. $400-ish cheaper than a simple AKL-BKK return, and he had a ‘free’ side trip to Japan.