HKG-PEK Codeshares or just CX/KA
#1
Original Poster
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: LHR GVA HKG TLV PVG JFK
Programs: AA EXP
Posts: 3,954
HKG-PEK Codeshares or just CX/KA
I am flying to PEK and trying to get a flight via HKG but BA is not offering that (as it often does as an option to PVG, usually a a KA/CX flight not even codeshared)
Any ideas?
Even tried HKG-PEK as separate segment on multicity, no go?
Any ideas?
Even tried HKG-PEK as separate segment on multicity, no go?
#2
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: PEK and BOS
Programs: BA - Blue
Posts: 4,531
Strange...I always get PEK-HKG-LHR as an option in the opposite direction, but yes, on a dummy booking just now, for the LHR-PEK it only offers the direct route.
Have you tried phoning up to price?
tb
Have you tried phoning up to price?
tb
#3
Original Poster
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: LHR GVA HKG TLV PVG JFK
Programs: AA EXP
Posts: 3,954
I often am flying straight to PVG and returning via HKG is the CX/KA connection a feature of return flights?
#4
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Beijing
Programs: SK EBG, BAEC Gold
Posts: 932
I just checked though some of the routing rules based on a return trip in March (LHR-PEK*), and the cheapest WT, WT+ and CW fares do indeed only allow the direct route (more specifically O and Q WT fares, the lower T "DIF" WT+ fare, and all the the I and R CW fares only allow a direct routing - at least for the dates I looked at). That is confirmed using a Matrix ITA search forcing a routing through HKG - the cheapest WT, WT+ and CW fares that come out are for booking classes N, T and D, respectively (with an eye-watering price of 5500 GBP for the latter).
All that doesn't necessarily explain though why the BA website is not giving you any options at all with this routing ...