This is a quite phenomenal deal from the Hong Kong carrier, with wide availability of cheap fares to China until August next year (including the Chinese summer) on this quality, full-service airline.
When you do your search, you may find that there are cheaper options with lower-cost airlines such as AirAsia, China Southern or China Eastern. The reason we have highlighted the Cathay Pacific fares is that most layovers in Hong Kong are under 90 minutes (due to their high frequency of flights to and from Australia), they include checked baggage, and have Qantas Frequent Flyer points earning opportunities.
Depart: Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth or Adelaide
Arrive: Beijing or Shanghai
Dates: November 2016 to August 2017 (excluding Christmas-New Year holidays)
Stops: Hong Kong
Airline: Cathay Pacific to Hong Kong and subsidiary Cathay Dragon on some onward flights to China
Cost: From $528 in Economy
Examples found:
Perth to Shanghai return for $528:
Melbourne to Shanghai return for $532:
Adelaide to Beijing return for $534:
Brisbane to Beijing return for $541:
Sydney to Beijing return for $546:
It doesn’t look like open-jaw tickets (flying into Beijing and out of Shanghai, or vice versa) are on sale.
Airfare deals are typically only available on limited dates. Fares may disappear quickly, so we suggest booking as soon as you are confident in your travel dates.
With thanks to Secret Flying.
I went to check on my preferred travel dates to shanghai. I saw this great 541 with CX fare on my preferred dates. As I was switching between 2 shanghai airports trying to see what the comparison is like. The fare was gone in both airport…on all the dates range…
sad…
Doesn’t it suck when that happens?! It’s happened to me before too. It might be because the cookies in your browser allow the site to track your searches, meaning it could see you really wanted those dates, so when you continued to search, it popped the price up.
Possible solution: clear your cookies, use another browser and/or use an incognito window if browsing with Chrome.
Did that lol. No luck. More so i searched for the amex travel, sta, skyscanner and cx sites. For the date/ route i saw skyscaner was the cheapest but it kept saying fare was not available anymore despite the subsequent searches say otherwise. Then amex travel was good. Tried 3 times between 2 days. At time of payment it would not push through. At the forth try the price went from 960 to 1130 lol. I did not give up but ended up compromising for a 2 nights visit to hk to score a low fare… well kh here i come. Weird so, the fare sometimes is avail on cx but not via travel sites vise versa…
Awesome deal there’s also cheap fares to Manila, Bangkok & others.
I booked my fare today to Shanghai from Perth.
Can you tell me if Qantas points & status credits will be earnt on these cheap booking class “S”
I have searched briefly online but cant dig up an answer. It states 25% Asia miles but on Qantas sight doesn’t distinguish what this booking class will earn you? On the calculator and partner Airlines chart it says… But I’m sceptical as I once got a cheap/special Malaysia airlines flight from Bali-KL-BKK really cheap and it didn’t credit anything except zeros on my Qantas activity statement.
Cheers
Good question. For booking class S on Cathay Pacific, there is no earn through Qantas Frequent Flyer. You can see the table here. I would suggest looking at earning through Asia Miles or a partner program in that case. Note that not all these fares may be in S class – it depends on the date, fare and route.
Is there a way to stopover in HK for a couple of days with these fares?