Anyone know of some cheap airlines? My fella and I are flying to Beijing in a few weeks time but haven't booked our flights yet as we were waiting to try and get a last minute deal. To no avail. Prices seem just as high as ever. so yea, the cheaper the flight, the more money we will have to use to live on for the first month before we get paid!

skyscanner.net is a good website - it's basically a search engine of loads of different airlines - give it a go!

It's been ages since I last looked but I remember Emirates always being the cheapest to Beijing. You'll get one-way for about £380 or about £500 return... or try Kingfisher, they're a really good airline. However, they don't go to China but you can go to Hong Kong or Bangkok for about £300 one-way or £400 return and catch a no frills airline like AirAsia when there for about £50 on to Beijing. Problem is Kingfisher always makes you have a stop-over in India for about 10hours but won't let you leave the airport. Like I said I don't know how up to date this info is but hope it helps.

try Kayak to search for the best deal

Still holding off from booking...waiting for some miracle deal to appear... Can't find anything under £600. With two of us, £1,200+ is just getting MUCH too expensive!

The best that I found was through STA where a one way to Beijing was about £300 with Ethiad.

Hey guys,

i used Kayak and got £530 return, but used the multi-destination, going from madrid in spain to london heathrow to beijing PEK

and returning from hong kong to london heathrow to sweden

i thought that was pretty good compared to some others!!

Is anybody else on same flight by chance?

i leave from heathrow sometime in afternoon on 22nd, think ats 16.40 maybe, to PEK??

x

Hey, Im on the BA flight from Heathrow on the 22nd leaving at 16.35pm - Djwaterland are you with BA too?

Hey Kate..

YES!!! We are on same flight!!!! 

thats great, we can be nervous together lol 

Thats so brill!!!

Daniela x

Kate, how much did you pay out of interest?

Any body else on the same flight?

London Heathrow 22nd august at 16:35?????????????????

I've almost completely decided (as in, I just haven't really booked it yet cos that makes it real) to get the train from Moscow across Russia/Mongolia which gets in on the 23rd. here is how I am feeling about this: aaaaaaaaargh!/wheeeeeeeee!!/arrrrrrrrrghhhhhhh!!!/YAAAAAAY!!!

so no flights for me

Yey Daniella woop ill meet you at check in :) I paid about £1000 but thats because ive got flexible flights including extra flights from Beijing to Hanoi, then from Bangkok to Sydney and back to London again 12 months later! EXCITED!

Claire, that sound amazing I was thinking of the train but decided i wasnt quite brave enough to do that on my own yet!

Hi,

A good airline to always checkout is Qatar Airways   London/Manchester - Doha - Beijing/Guangzhou/Hong Kong.

Cathy Pacific are offering good deals at the moment on flights to/from Beijing/Hong kong.

Internal flights:  use CTrip or ELong. Can get some fantastic bargains and easily booked from outside China on their English website.

MadGee

Hey,

I am flying out to Beijing on the 12th of January and I booked my flights about a week ago. I used Air China to fly with, I found the flight on lastminute.com. Although the flights on the actual air China flight were a similar price. Although the prices did vary depending on what time and what day you tried to book it on/at. So just be aware if you book it at what i presume was a peak time it will be more expensive!

Ali

Thanks, the website is a really big help when it comes to comparing prices!

Also, people that are from the Republic of Ireland, the website is www.skyscanner.ie!

Hiya, I know this is an old thread but I will write something on here if anyone reads it again.  www.Skyscanner.net is good but you can also give www.ctrip.com a go and see what that come up with as they scan a few airlines that skyscanner doesnt and sometimes come up with some great deals. 

emirates is £450 to beijing at present, and seemingly for the next month based on the flights i looked at, i will be doing a week stopover in dubai as well, so 2 flights/holidays for the same price!