China by Air

Hello,

I would like to spend a month in China next year. As I have limited time I have decided to fly between citys.
What is the best airline to use for this and are there any deals offers like the RTW tickets avaliable.
I will be flying from UK (London) and would like to start in Beijing and return to the UK from Guangzhou.
any help is greatly appreciated.

China now has so many airlines that it's near impossible to give you an answer if you don't list the destinations you'd like to visit. I would start with the Cathay/Dragonair website. Cathay does have an All Asia Pass for those of us in the USA, but I'm not at all sure about their UK business? More than likely that you'll be using several airlines if you want the best price/most convenient connections. Use an airfare search engine like Momondo.com - it will list the airlines serving the routes in question.

If you want to fly London to Beijing directly , I think the only choice is Air China ( the airline based on China)
Otherwise , you may fly London - Hong Kong - Beijing by Cathay + Dragon Air ( both airline based on HK)

For domestic air , the best choice will be CA ( air china) , MU ( China Eastern ) and CZ ( China Southern).
They fly most of the destination in China.

I am not suer does there any flight can fly Guangzhou to London...
But .. why end the tour at Guangzhou?
I dont think there have any special to see ( just my opinion...)

Thanks everyone esspessially Eliz_l that's really useful i will do some more research into this

I am actually visiting family across China so may be able to start in HK anyway but i must foy from Guangzhou as the family i am visiting are only around the last few days before i have to get back to the UK for work.

China southern flies to Paris via Guangzhou the last I checked, but not London. But really, the biggest hub in the area is Honhkong, you can get a bus to Hongkong, not necessarily from Guangzhou city but I mean down at southern china area and get Cathay or British airways or whatever back to London.

By the way, British airways fly direct to Beijing as well, so why not get a round trip deal with them? fly to Beijing, and leave from Hongkong.

Oh wait, you have to leave from Guangzhou (I should read b4 i post), then i'd say the best bet is get a train to Shenzhen and a bus/train across over to Hongkong. Will knock you back about 200 yuan and half a day of travel, but not that bad really, right? You might even want to spend a few days at hongkong.

Hey,

To get to Beijing you can pick up some pretty cheap flights. I'm flying to Beijing in July with Austrian airlines fro £350 rather than £1000 that air china were offering, also aeroflot (russian airline) provide really cheap flights!

Hope this helps

Hey, this is my first post since returning from my tour to China/HK.

In September 09, I booked a return ticket from Birmingham to Beijing and flying back from HK to Birmingham for February 2010. I stayed for three and half weeks! It cost me the grand total of approx £395 from lastminute.com and flew with Air France. It encompasses a stop-over for 3-4 hours in Paris before the onward journey. I was really impressed with the flight and service. I would highly recommend Air France. As a Muslim, they also had halal food available.

Just before flying out, I conducted a fictitious search for the same dates. The price came back as approx £800.

If you have your dates in mind then book early.
Regards, Mohson

Quoting Monkeypod

Hello,

I would like to spend a month in China next year. As I have limited time I have decided to fly between citys.
What is the best airline to use for this and are there any deals offers like the RTW tickets avaliable.
I will be flying from UK (London) and would like to start in Beijing and return to the UK from Guangzhou.
any help is greatly appreciated.

Check Xie Cheng Wang to book flight.

To book flights within China, check out CTrip or ELong, which are the 2 major booking engines and shows you all the available flights from different airlines and prices