Thread: China Transit Without Visa While Nonrevving?

Originally Posted by mingus

I am in SGN and will want to get back to SLC or LAX in November. HKG is over. SIN can work, just thinking about another route. I can not get Zed fare. I'll be looking it over. thanks for any ideas.

I used HKG on the way in and worked out well.

Yeah I was bummed about DL pulling out of HKG. I just missed it on the way back. I ended up coming back HKG-LAX on AA with a jumpseat agreement. Out of SGN there are cheap fares to ICN a lot of the time. DL is a great option from ICN with flights to SEA, DTW, and ATL.

Originally Posted by pjpoker

Late reply, but my route ended up being LAX-PVG-BKK. Nonrev LAX-PVG on Delta and I bought a confirmed $100 ticket from PVG-BKK on China Eastern. Delta initially denied me in LAX because I didn't have a visa. Luckily I had printed out pages from Timatic indicating that I do not need a visa if I hold a confirmed ticket onward. It took like 3 agents before they found someone who was certain and they let me go. D1 suite on the A350 was great.

And just for fun, the routing of my entire trip was as follows -

FLL-LAX-PVG-BKK-KBV-HKT-REP-PNH-SGN-DAD-HUI-HAN-HKG-LAX-FLL

I may need to go through PVG this week since SIN looks full.

I'll see if I can print info from Timatic and have with me.

headed to Myanmar via BKK. I do not see any other route that makes sense.