The view (and a big hot bowl of congee!) from a room at the InterContinental Hong Kong in Kowloon. Wow! (Photo: Chris McGinnis)
(Image: Google Flights)
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!
(Image: Google Flights)
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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Nelrod says
July 19, 2016 at 8:52 pmThanks 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!!
forestation says
July 19, 2016 at 7:48 pmThe 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.
Chris McGinnis says
July 19, 2016 at 5:10 pmplenty 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
Kirk says
July 19, 2016 at 4:49 pmChris, 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)