Skiplagging on MU, lets see how this will go...

~U$500 for HND-PKX
~U$250 for HND-PKX-HKG

You might have trouble at immigration, since they will not be expecting you.

Heureka, first time since I have arrived in Ningbo and travelled across China I am able to login to Flyertalk without cloudflare....must be because I am in Shanghai right now.

Back to the topic. I just skiplagged on SC NKG-TAO-HKG the HKG flight as well.

I am not going to lie, when I saw that at Nanjing Airport that Shandong Airlines and Qingdao Airlines used the same Check-In counter I was literally sitting on needles, but in the end in NKG as well as on the next day in TAO neither the Check-in agents nor the Security Check officer gave a damn....well, if I am banned from Shandong Airlines in the future I might have to pay a few EUR extra for the codeshare on the same flight.

I think Narvik has E-Channel in China.

Lately it seems that immigration is becoming more relaxed anyway...or maybe only with visafree countries.

How did tacking on HK save you more than $5-10? NKG-TAO is usually available for $50 or less and taxes on TAO-HKG are around $10.

You shouldn't have any issues with throwaway ticketing, but I'm with moondog - that price seems excessive for this flight.

Unless I missed it, he didn't tell us how much he paid for the flight with the throwaway ticket. I was simply curious how cheap it could have been, given that tickets without the extra leg are only Y355.

I paid 48 EUR for the flight, which has been sold as 20 EUR off offer on lastminute.de. Trip.com charged 30-40 EUR (in Europe prices change depending on which country you chose in the Trip.com App) more for the same flight.

What kind of worried me was that Shandong Airlines sold the TAO-HKG leg, which I skipped, for 180 EUR upwards...

I was wondering about that too. But with eChannel, I just entered China without issues.

Worked out all okay. They did ask for a reservation showing leaving HKG in Tokyo which I couldn't produce, to which they stated they could only issue the BP to Beijing.

Not really comfortable doing this, but it worked out okay. Flight was 'meh'...both airports used remote gates.

Having experienced both I prefer flights operated by FM on behalf of MU any day of the week. Shanghai Airlines beats China Eastern in almost every aspect, short- as well as longhaul, hands down.

During the WNZ-PVG flight FM changed the mood lighting in the B738, closed the curtain to the Business-class (with the metal sign attached to the curtain) for five minutes, before they started to "secure the cabin" for landing....which I found hilarious and over the top, but thats adhering to procedures.

Yeah, my go-to Chinese airline is still Hainan. Might have been only my second ever MU flight. Not a fan. Will continue to avoid if I can...but they were the cheapest for this particular segment.
This MU flight was a repositioning O/W flight, so I can finally switch to R/T flights originating Beijing-Tokyo, which is far cheaper than Tokyo-Beijing return.
It's still insane to me how Beijing can still demand such a premium price.....

MU has come a loooong way since the 等方 days. Flights on competitive routes aren't especially delay prone, the food is okay enough, and some of their planes are really nice. That having been said, I think they dragged down FM quite a bit after they bought it. Given a choice between the two, I almost always go with MU.

If they plan to keep the A330 for years to come I really hope they refurbish the cabin rather sooner than later. Same with some of the old B737.

I guess I state the obvious here, but catering wise it makes such a huge difference if ones flight depart from Europe or Asia. The catering loaded in Vienna, Budapest etc. is actually pretty good...but sometimes the catering on flights departing from China is almost inedible.

I dig most of their 330s. I have no idea when/where they got the 737s. Fortunately, they don't show up on my routes too often. It's really hard to avoid 737s on FM, though.

Planning to skip a leg between PEK-PVG having flown in from UK and just wanted to clarify that the above scenario would only apply to a INT-CN-INT itinerary, is that correct? I would have to clear immigration at PEK anyway for a domestic connection if I was planning to take it, right?

I'm a skiplagging virgin - is it courteous to inform the airline you cant make the flight (for some BS reason) or do you just vanish into the ether....

You should be fine as long as you have the right to enter the country ( visa or eligible visa-free passport)
and are not violating any TWOV rules.

If you are dropping the last leg, and will never need to use the coupon, just disappear.