Originally Posted by Gardyloo
As for other origin points, depends on your home > Europe access mode. ARN is pretty good for pricing and you could avoid the London shuffle (and BAA baggage mayhem if still extant) by going ARN-HEL-PEK... There also some LCC access to Stockholm too, or CPH and train...
We're a little north of MAN, so we have decent LCC access up here and can fairly easily get to LON for other options.
D availability GIB-LON is quite limited until 5-Sep and I'd like to get going earlier, so we might have to go with ARN. Any comments on differences in J quality between BA LHR-PEK and AY HEL-PEK?