With a European account, it shows prices through the roof.
So I registered on the Chinese version.
Of interest: there are flights and connections you won’t find on Trip or Google Flights.
It can pull in flights from “the Southerners”.
Prices are five grains of rice cheaper than Trip. Five dollars in every hundred.
When I saw HKG β LHR for $115, I thought Shangri-La might actually exist.
On the final step they add the taxes, and the legend turns back into cold hard fact.
There are coupons for upgrades to business class for a few yuan. Domestic flights only.
I bought a test one to see the whole process from start to finish.
Payment went through without a hitch.
The ticket was issued and a confirmation arrived by email, but it didn’t show up in the account.
I put the probability of actually taking off at 93.07% β roughly the odds of a British barbecue going ahead as planned π
