Friday Fare Alert (2): SFO to PVG From $601 or 4.1c/mile (AA/DL/UA & More)

Fare Alert

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In the first of today’s fare alerts I posted fares between Seattle and Shanghai/Beijing for the last three months of 2015. The most direct fares were with Hainan and Delta but American Airlines had a fantastic milage-run-worthy fare which came out to just 4.4c/mile.

Well, it turns out that Seattle isn’t the only west-coast city with good fares to China. San Francisco and Los Angeles are joining in too. In this post I’ll detail the fares available from San Francisco but, if you’re looking for fares from Los Angeles they’re similar and available too – just use ITA Matrix to find a flight that works best.

San Francisco – Shanghai

American Airlines, United, Delta, China Eastern, China Southern and Hainan all have fares on this route for under $700 return but you need to be a little bit careful. If you don’t set your search parameters correctly you’ll see an incredible fare of just $586 from China Southern….

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…only to find that, when you take a closer look at the flights, they’re not exactly ideal:

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I try to avoid 23hr+ hour layovers if I can!

Using the advanced routing code ” / maxconnect 300″ with the ITA Matrix Search (which filters out all flights with a 5hr+ layover) you still see some pretty fantastic fares over the next 3 months:

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The best sub-$700 fares by airlines are:

United: 

Fare: $637

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Months Available: October/November

Minimum stay: 6 nights (only 5 nights needed in Shanghai due to overnight flight)

Cost per mile: 5.2c/mile

American:

Fare: $651

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Months Available: October/November

Minimum stay: 5 nights (only 4 nights needed in Shanghai due to overnight flight)

Cost per mile: 4.8c/mile (possible mileage run but 4 nights needed in PVG )

Delta:

Fare: $651

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Months Available: October/November

Minimum stay: 6 nights (only 5 nights needed in Shanghai due to overnight flight)

Cost per mile: 4.8c/mile (good price but 5 nights needed in PVG so unlikely to be mileage run material ) 

China Eastern:

Fare: $645

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Months Available: October/November

Minimum stay:  6 nights (only 5 nights needed in Shanghai due to overnight flight)

Cost per mile: 5.2 c/mile

Hainan/Alaska:

Fare: $684

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Months Available: October/November/December

Minimum stay:  3 nights (only 2 nights needed in Shanghai due to overnight flight)

Cost per mile: 5.3c/mile

China Southern:

Fare: $601 (not many dates) to $656

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Months Available: November, January/February/March

Minimum stay:  5 nights (only 4 nights needed in Shanghai due to overnight flight)

Cost per mile: 4.1c/mile (4 nights needed in Shanghai but the cost/mile is so good that this would work as a mileage run).

Note: There are flights from San Francisco to Beijing available on China Eastern and China Southern from $585.

If you’re new to using the ITA Matrix search tool the introductory articles you’ll find on my “useful info” page may be of help.

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  1. […] AA/UA/DL/HU/CZ SFO-PVG From $601 Oct/Nov All found via ITA Matrix China Southern has fares as low as $601 (4.1cpm) SFO-CAN-PVG-WUH-SFO AA: Fares from $651 SFO-LAX-PVG-LAX-SFO (4.8cpm but min. stay is 4 nights) DL: Fares from $651 SFO-LAX-PVG-LAX-SFO (4.8cpm but min. stay is 5 nights) HU/AS: Fares from $684 SFO-SEA-PVG-SEA-SFO I've broken down more details here […]

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