Ewr - Pek Still Not In System ?

[AirDude]

How come this flight is still not in the system to sell ?
There is only 10 weeks left.

 

[AirDude]

It is in the system now.
But the price is $1408.55
Expensive...

 

[jimntx]

It is in the system now.
But the price is $1408.55
Expensive...

[post="260228"][/post]​

I tried 30JUN-15JUL as travel dates. At Continental's website, the lowest available non-stop fare for those dates was $1393.00. They also show a connection to ALL Nippon at NRT for about the same amount.

When I went to Orbitz and put in ORD-PEK for the same dates, United's cheapest non-stop fare came up as $4018! CO showed an ORD-EWR-PEK routing for $1397. Air China is currently the only other non-stop carrier on ORD-PEK. They showed a r-t at $2994.

Is United getting that much money for the route? And, are they selling any tickets?

 

[sfb]

But the price is $1408.55
Expensive...

EWR-PEK round-trip is over 13,600 miles. Considering that at least $200 of that price is taxes and government fees, I'd hardly call a price under ten cents per mile "expensive."

 

[Trip Confirmed]

Ua is selling gazillions of business class seats to China to corporate clients.

Sold out, all the time. Waitlist city. At damned near 50% of the published price for the big corporations. But these people are almost all the ones in those seats.

Considering how they treat the travel agents who (exclusively ) book those seats,
God help them the very second any other American carrier offers real competition.


Paybacks are a stinker.

And their disgust for UA and the hostile treatment on the phone is unreal.

 

[Borescope]

How come this flight is still not in the system to sell ?
There is only 10 weeks left.

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It's not in the system because they don't intend to fly to Peking. Their new service is EWR to Bejing.

 

[ual777fan]

Peking and Beijing are the same city. The airport code is PEK for Beijing. If that last post was sarcasm then... sorry

 

[featheroleather]

It's not in the system because they don't intend to fly to Peking. Their new service is EWR to Bejing.

[post="261380"][/post]​

Do I order Peking Duck at the Chinese restaurant in Beijing??? :huh:

 

[balloonguy]

It's not in the system because they don't intend to fly to Peking. Their new service is EWR to Bejing.

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As an FYI, Peking was renamed to Beijing. Still the same place. "PEK" is the airport designator for Beijing. Most people in aviation should know that.

 

[MAH4546]

I tried 30JUN-15JUL as travel dates. At Continental's website, the lowest available non-stop fare for those dates was $1393.00. They also show a connection to ALL Nippon at NRT for about the same amount.

When I went to Orbitz and put in ORD-PEK for the same dates, United's cheapest non-stop fare came up as $4018! CO showed an ORD-EWR-PEK routing for $1397. Air China is currently the only other non-stop carrier on ORD-PEK. They showed a r-t at $2994.

Is United getting that much money for the route? And, are they selling any tickets?

[post="260251"][/post]​

I know this reply is very late, but Air China does not fly to O'Hare. They codeshare with UA on ORD-PEK.