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China Southern: Mistake Fares to China: eg Auckland to Shanghai $462 Return @ Beat That Flight

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Was looking to see if any of the fares to China had reduced, and stumbled upon this!

For comparison, the cheapest dates from March to December I can find are pretty much in the $700s return. However, here for just a few select dates in October- November, the price craters. So I'm consdering that an error. Get in quick!

Auckland - Shanghai return on China Southern

Dates: 18 Apr 26 - 8 Dec 26


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  • +1

    Thanks OP, seems like it's fixed. Showing $931 for me for those dates.

    • found more, added

  • Can't seem to find it anymore. Not the cheapest fare at least.

    • +1

      added another.

  • +1

    Btw I like your cleaner looking website but the UI works poorly on mobile.

    • thanks - what's not working for you, out of curiosity?

      • On mobile the search results are blocked by the search box.

        • Same for me, the search takes too much space and it cannot be collapsed

        • thanks to both of you, will investigate different browsers

  • +12

    I really respect how despite you are .au still looking out deals for humble smaller country of NZ

    • +1

      Thanks. To be fair, I live in Chch ;) Just started it when I was in Sydney for a few years.

  • There have been real 465 fares before so it might actually have been a real fare. Glad I managed to travel sub 500 return to China once.

  • I think all the fares are gone, I don’t see any at that price anymore

    • +1

      added another

  • +3

    Cheaper than flying to invercargill

  • I saw them! Nice catch! But I wasn’t familiar with the agencies, are they trustworthy?

  • Thanks OP, please let me know if you spot another set of dates that has 2x tickets

    • +1

      added some more, and have set a script to run overnight checking for more

  • +4

    Just spent two hours of my life trying to book tickets on my trip. All good - payment price confirmed. Hit pay- then it literally doubles saying price increase. Re search - flights still there try again- same thing! Sigh. If its too good to be true so they say! Now i have a very disappointed family!

    • +2

      Same happened to me, literally when you click pay you get the alert with the new price

    • all I can do is source the shared price from the OTAs, but prices with airlines change frequently (Each day!) and often the value is cached, and then polled when someone goes to buy - and if someone else has bought the last cheap ticket that day, they have no choice but to up the fare :/

      • Totally appreciate your work but the flights that day (including at different times) were still available when i searched again feels like a very dodgy tactic to me by Mytrip.

  • Haven’t bought but love these posts OP! Travel inspo 🥰🥰🥰🔥🔥🔥 thank you for your service

  • Thanks OP! If you can find anymore tickets in Nov-Dec, please let me know

    • ran a script, found all the ones available overnight.

  • +1

    Be aware that, according to the e-ticket I received, the fare is R class, which means you are not eligible for upgrades, changes, rescheduling, or free transit hotel in Guangzhou.

    The only circumstance under which you can reschedule is when a flight schedule has been changed more than 15 minutes before departure.

    • Good to hear you received your e-ticket.

      Do your ticket include any checked luggage?

      And we're you able to choose the seats?

      Thanks

  • +3

    The price increased at checkout. Two hours wasted, thanks.

    • all I can do is source the shared price from the OTAs, but prices with airlines change frequently (Each day!) and often the value is cached, and then polled when someone goes to buy - and if someone else has bought the last cheap ticket that day, they have no choice but to up the fare :/ Can see some have successfully got some from my analytics - including in comments above.

  • can anyone find their booking on csair website? https://oversea.csair.com/tka/us/en/my/order/

    im getting "Invalid characters" under Booking Reference Number

    and on this link i get "Sorry,cannot find your ticket" https://extint.csair.com/content/TravelCenter/index.html

    • I can, I booked through trip.com. They have sent me an email about how to find and manage your booking through csair web.

      • can you change the meal/seat selection for free?

        • +1

          I didn’t change them, I booked my seat for free.

          • @Chloe77: oh its free to select seats on trip.com??

            • +2

              @justaddwater: Yes, well you can only choose certain seats for free which is plenty. The layout just looks like you book from the official website.

  • Thanks, I made it from trip.com.

  • +2

    Thanks for the post.

    I've tried every date and a combination of my own.

    The only cheap flights I can find seem to be for one seat.
    See link

    https://files.cheapies.nz/upload/2404/5957/screenshot_202603…

    I'm after tickets for five people.

    If anyone finds return flights for 5 people to Beijing, Shanghai or Kuala Lumpur for around $600 per person I would be very grateful.

    • Yeah I'm the same, I'm only seeing flights with one seat. I'm still hoping to find 2x tickets so will keep checking random dates.

  • +1

    Anyone got this message on checkout? Managed to secure a couple of cheap flights, paid and then

    “The ticket price has increased by US$926.00 due to changes in availability. Please confirm to continue, or start a new search for other flights.”

    • +1

      depends on the OTA site used (my trip? kiwi? gotogate?) and dates. Can see from my analytics that there were some successfull bookings so far, so they do exist. So likely there's only a couple on each date at that price, and when the OTA re-queries it, the cached value is updated :/

      • Thank you @beatthatflight!! Appreciate you

  • +1

    China southern is having mega sale according to its official website. You can try to search other cities like Nanjing from Sep to early Dec , similar price

    • Hangzhou, Chengdu, Chongqing also.

  • managed to book one for around 300 USD, great price!

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