Chinese-only airfares?
I thought that sort of thing was long past--yet my SIL found a fare that can't be booked on a US passport. Huh?
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Details?
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Website? Airline? travel agency?
Was it bookable with other passports beside PRC? PRC-HK? PRC-Macao? My TA in HK did mentioned there were special residency/nationality offers for travels a few years back. |
Originally Posted by tentseller
(Post 28217797)
Website? Airline? travel agency?
Was it bookable with other passports beside PRC? PRC-HK? PRC-Macao? My TA in HK did mentioned there were special residency/nationality offers for travels a few years back. |
Originally Posted by Loren Pechtel
(Post 28219717)
I don't have all the details. The flight in question was Shanghai -> Chengdu, SIL (Chinese citizen, living in Shanghai) found a fare substantially better than what I could find but when she tried to book it they wouldn't accept people with US passports. I have no idea what would have happened with any other foreign passport.
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UC
charges foreign students $22,878 annually on top of $12,192 in tuition. They travel extensively to China to recruit. Charging more for foreigners on China flights is a good way to recoup.:p |
^:eek:
Originally Posted by anacapamalibu
(Post 28237089)
UC
charges foreign students $22,878 annually on top of $12,192 in tuition. They travel extensively to China to recruit. Charging more for foreigners on China flights is a good way to recoup.:p |
An unwarranted suggestion of discrimination there.
Chinese studying at UC pay that rate of tuition not because they're foreigners, but because they're not residents of California. Americans not resident in California pay the same. http://admission.universityofcalifor...tion-and-cost/ |
Do the math.
About 95 percent of undergraduates enrolled in the system were California residents in 2007. That number dropped to under 87 percent in the 2014-15 academic year, as the state Legislature cut more than $810 million in funding, after adjusting for inflation. Meanwhile, international enrollment increased nearly fivefold over the same period, from 1.8 percent to 8.5 percent of the student body. The number of domestic out-of-state students grew by just under two percentage points. |
Originally Posted by cxfan1960
(Post 28234020)
It sounds like this may just be a TA or web site issue that they can only enter Chinese ID #.
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Originally Posted by anacapamalibu
(Post 28237089)
UC
charges foreign students $22,878 annually on top of $12,192 in tuition. They travel extensively to China to recruit. Charging more for foreigners on China flights is a good way to recoup.:p |
It goes to the "people".
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I think CTrip has this for hotel reservations as well. Maybe a reason to marry someone from the motherland! ;P
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Originally Posted by anacapamalibu
(Post 28237089)
UC
charges foreign students $22,878 annually on top of $12,192 in tuition. They travel extensively to China to recruit. Charging more for foreigners on China flights is a good way to recoup.:p |
Originally Posted by MSPeconomist
(Post 28380564)
Tuition rates are as follows: UK << EU <<elsewhere.
And in general this is because the UK government subsidizes the tuition fees of their nationals. Does the Chinese government subsidize travel expenses of the Chinese people? In the US, there are different tuition rates for residents and non-residents. The interpretation of residency depends on the state but is not directly related to nationality. In the case of California, all it takes is being able to prove living there for more than a year, and foreigners can qualify as well. As far as I know even the immigration status is not verified. I think what happened was probably just an unintended glitch in the system but in any case all these tuition analogies are just spurious. |
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