CA : CAN - LAX $1,328 RT Business
 

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- Excellent deals to LAX incl. A350, Chinese visa required for domestic sector

- https://www.kayak.com/flights/CAN-LA...t=bestflight_a

- Earns up to 150%

I thought this was a pretty good deal, I'm surprised there are no replies -- am I missing something, other than the significant cancellation/change penalties?

CAN - MY HOMELANDDDDD

really wish it is JFK/EWR not LAX though:(

NYC is available for not much more

2000 CNY is not that much of a penalty. I guess it's more about the fact that Chinese airlines often have really low fares on TPAC routes, plus AirChina in particular doesn't have any fancy brand new configurations to US. Contrary to what OP said, there is no CA A350 flying over Great Pacific garbage patch

Contrary to your comment the A350 is flying the domestic sector as indicated.

This website says a 24-hour transit is fine, even with a domestic flight within china, so long as the total time in China is less than 24 hours. https://www.travelchinaguide.com/embassy/visa/transit.htm

Having said that, I'm not sure I'm brave enough to try it, unless I heard from others who have done it. Even if the rules are clear, it doesn't mean that airlines will let you on the plane to China.

Well, you message sounded more like "A350 to LAX" rather than "A350 on domestic sector and then dated 2-2-2 config to LAX". But fine...those are just words

Good fare, I read the rules and see
This would seem to limit travel to those dates in Sept for the outbound. Doesnt seem like and of the booking engines have coded that properly... Also seems inconsistent with the blackout dates in the fare rules which are outside of Sept...

Same fare for SFO too

That is a different fare you are looking at. You should look for the Business Excursion fare which only has a blackout date, as well as TUE/WED/THU departure requirement.
Also this is not that much of a discount as CAN-LAX is concistently at 1900USD RT in J year round with other airlines.

I would consider $1328 a "big discount" compared to $1900.

I agree it is quite a saving, but not TOO attractive for those based in Asia, especially for China. HU use to offer 1400USD ish direct CSX-LAX flight for over a year, so fares at this price ex-China to US is not all that common. There is even more fares at this level to EU, AY offered 1300USD RT to LON in J from both CAN and CKG EOS last year. If you dig a little more from secondary cities (outside of PEK/PVG/HKG) you will easily find superbly attractive fares from the likes of XIY/CSX/CKG/CTU/KMG/XMN/HAK etc on many carriers across alliances.

While I haven't done it on an intra-China segment, it wasn't that difficult to transit from my HKG-PEK flight to a PEK-BKK. Might be a problem coming into the domestic terminal at PEK though.