The view (and a big hot bowl of congee!) from a room at the InterContinental Hong Kong in Kowloon. Wow! (Photo: Chris McGinnis)
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Fares to Hong Kong from LAX and SFO decreased substantially this week. Act fast if you want to head east. The cheapest one-stop, round trip fare we found for SFO-HKG for September, October, November or December round trips was a strikingly low $357 round trip on Delta via Seattle! Fares on nonstops are cheap, too: Just $488 on United. Fares from LAX are in the $500 range– still very cheap!
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Delta fares from SFO to Seoul and Shanghai are also on sale. The cheapest we found to Seoul was $496 round trip and SFO to Shanghai for only $529 round trip. Both flights have a stop in Seattle. (Flights from LAX are slightly higher, but still very good deals at around $550 round trip.)
Check these deals out for yourself on Google Flights. Act fast because fares like this never last very long. I usually think that any roundtrip fare between the West Coast and Asia that is less than $800 is a good deal, so these ones are really remarkable.
NOTE: Fares valid when posted at 3:00pm on Tuesday, July 19
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Thanks Chris! Just got a small pile of $ back (well, a “travel certificate”) from United for a roundtrip I’d booked a couple months ago that’s available for 20% less today! Thanks!!
The concept of eastern and western hemispheres is arbitrary and antiquated. Do people today really think Madrid and Paris are in different hemispheres?
Also, I would hesitate to quote Yahoo Answers as an authoritative source on anything.
plenty of debate about that here, but in this case it is meant to mean traveling from the western hemisphere to the eastern hemisphere. https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20101028105315AAlfyof
Chris, I think we’ve had this debate before, but I continue to maintain that if you are travelling from SFO/LAX to Asia, you are most definitely heading west, not east! (unless you go the wrong way around the world)