Does China Southern price match?
Jan 2, 2019, 10:23 am
#2
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: ATL
Programs: Delta PlM, 1M
Posts: 6,363
Many Asian airlines have channel specific pricing of some sort. You might even find Priceline and Expedia differing by a substantial amount. Form what I have seen, the mainland China websites (with the exception of Zimian) tend to pull high prices. OTOH, it used to always be the case that the Taiwan airlines (BR/CI) would have better prices on their websites that the OTA.s
Just need to shop. And that includes a phone call.
Jan 2, 2019, 1:27 pm
#3
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Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Shanghai
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I seriously doubt they actually "price match". OTOH, this may very well be a case where the website is only pulling higher priced fares, and a phone call gets a better price.
Many Asian airlines have channel specific pricing of some sort. You might even find Priceline and Expedia differing by a substantial amount. Form what I have seen, the mainland China websites (with the exception of Zimian) tend to pull high prices. OTOH, it used to always be the case that the Taiwan airlines (BR/CI) would have better prices on their websites that the OTA.s
Just need to shop. And that includes a phone call.
Many Asian airlines have channel specific pricing of some sort. You might even find Priceline and Expedia differing by a substantial amount. Form what I have seen, the mainland China websites (with the exception of Zimian) tend to pull high prices. OTOH, it used to always be the case that the Taiwan airlines (BR/CI) would have better prices on their websites that the OTA.s
Just need to shop. And that includes a phone call.
Jan 5, 2019, 12:15 am
#6
Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: China
Programs: A3 G CZ S
Posts: 50
Technically they do but with very strict rules:
1. Only CZ own direct flight which code start with CZ3, 6 or 8
2. Only direct flight or return flight, no transit/multi trip/open jaw etc.
3. Only match with some Chinese local OTA like Ctrip, Flypig etc
So in your case it looks irrelevant
2. Only direct flight or return flight, no transit/multi trip/open jaw etc.
3. Only match with some Chinese local OTA like Ctrip, Flypig etc
So in your case it looks irrelevant