Thread: China Transit Without Visa While Nonrevving?

Originally Posted by mingus

curious about your decided route?

I haven't decided yet. I'm not leaving until 09/22 so I'm just keeping an eye on it. I'll be in LAX at that time, so PVG/PEK would be convenient. It's a bit pretentious, but I don't want to fly any route that won't put me in business class on DL for the flight over. If PVG doesn't work out, I'll find something else. LAX-SEA-HKG is an option I'm looking at as well. One of the few Asian ZEDs I have is on EK, so that would be a bonus with HKG as EK flies an A380 between HKG-BKK.
Will follow up with how it all really goes when the time comes.

Originally Posted by mingus

curious about your decided route?

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

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.