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Return Airfare to China (20 Cities via Guangzhou): Melbourne from $748, Sydney from $768 @ China Southern via Google Travel

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Return Airfare to China (20 Cities via Guangzhou): Melbourne from $748, Sydney from $768 @ China Southern via Google Travel
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AssociatedCheapFlightHunter @ Cheap Flight Hunter on 30/01/2023 - 21:23 google.com (9877 clicks)
Last edited 31/01/2023 - 15:08 by 2 other users

Loads of cities in China for $748 from Melbourne ; and $768 from Sydney.

I haven't listed out all the routes, but here are the cities I found that were working at these prices (might be more):

Beijing (PKX)
Changsha (CSX)
Chongqing (CKG)
Fuzhou (FOC)
Harbin (HRB)
Hangzhou (HGH)
Jinan (TNA)
Kunming (KMG)
Lijiang (LJG)
Ningbo (NGB)
Nanjing (NKG)
Qingdao (TAO)
Shanghai (SHA)
Shenyang (SHE)
Shijiazhuang (SJW)
Tianjin (TSN)
Wuhan (WUH)
Wuxi (WUX)
Xiamen (XMN)
Xi'an (XIY)

Sydney dates are pretty limited, quite a few more from Melbourne. All flights are via Guangzhou on China Southern.

FYI China is now somewhat open, you don't need to quarantine, but you do still need a negative COVID test.

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    • BOGANOZOI on 30/01/2023 - 23:40

      Understand. Not affordable for you anymore. Should work harder mate.

      • nonoannie on 31/01/2023 - 00:09
        +6

        rather pay a bit more to go Japan or Korea instead.

        • BOGANOZOI on 31/01/2023 - 20:07
          +3

          Good on ya. dont understand that people dont mind having radiation food and drinks in Japan. So brave.

  • evgpek on 30/01/2023 - 23:16

    Do they do free transit visas again? Although covid test is an expensive annoyance

    • plague69 on 31/01/2023 - 00:32
      +1

      Honestly would look at your ongoing destination. Many places see you coming from China, they will treat you differently

  • sydracing on 30/01/2023 - 23:26
    -8

    What a joke, I put GuangZhou as destination, China Southern Airline, From Sydney, Round trip, AUD $18,000, Economy class. Plus a PCR, no way, who wants to go?

    • Sprayoz on 30/01/2023 - 23:32
      +2

      You are a joke.

    • plague69 on 30/01/2023 - 23:48

      Obviously selected dates and locations only

  • LayG on 30/01/2023 - 23:35
    +2

    Going to China is like going into future. You will know the difference when you get back here.

    And all those covid comments ha ha typical jokers.

    • ozbking on 31/01/2023 - 01:31
      +4

      I don’t quite understand your comment?

      Do you mean the technology? I personally much prefer NFC over QR codes. Also, the (profanity) advertising screens in the subway tunnels were just annoying.
      How about the the visa issuance being all paper based, rather than online? Or that as a tourist, cash is actually required?

      One travels to China to look at historical sights, it’s not known for being futuristic.

    • effraye on 31/01/2023 - 08:39

      Nothing about my trip to China was like going into the future.

    • JohnHowardsEyebrows on 31/01/2023 - 09:16
      -1

      You mean the social credit score/constant surveillance?

      • xoom on 31/01/2023 - 09:44
        -1

        It's the future. Dystopian but the future.

      • BOGANOZOI on 06/02/2023 - 23:34
        +1

        So you just like your dear scomo secretly appointed to five ministries, including Treasury … WITHOUT ANY SURVEILLANCE. Appreciate this other level of democracy.

    • krazek on 31/01/2023 - 10:24
      -1

      A totalitarian regime controlling every aspect of your life via Digital ID, programmable central bank digital currency and social scores? Sounds like a great future!

      • wackedupwacko on 31/01/2023 - 12:27

        To be fair, if google and apple decided this is the best way to keep making money going forward, we'd be there pretty fast.

  • BOGANOZOI on 30/01/2023 - 23:41
    +5

    Appreciate those jokes about CPC. Those really scare bogans and refugees away from CHN.

    • xoom on 30/01/2023 - 23:55
      +2

      Who is this CPC?

      Just getting a kick out of the social credits plummeting from all the hate China comments.

      Serious question. How messed up is your life that you would want to seek asylum in China?

      • whyisave on 31/01/2023 - 04:35
        +1

        seek asylum in China?

        if/when the democracies collapse,
        authoritarian countries will seem attractive.

        • effraye on 31/01/2023 - 08:40
          +2

          yes because throughout history democracies have always been the first to collapse.

          • whyisave on 31/01/2023 - 12:19

            @effraye: Never say never

            • effraye on 31/01/2023 - 12:35

              @whyisave: remember this post when the free west uses its very very very big stick to put CH back in it's place.

        • [Deactivated] on 01/02/2023 - 00:42
          -1

          Someone hasnt studied up on Chinese governance history at all, eh.

      • BOGANOZOI on 31/01/2023 - 20:12

        If you think about it as a serious question, you will understand more about the oz life in the shadow of news corp. WHO? Guess true OZ Assange and Snowden used to live in the democratic beacon don't mind lol.

        • misu p on 01/02/2023 - 08:43

          lol… to bring Newscorp in a discussion about China. Newscorp is like a toddler compared to China.

          Also welcome to your forum comrade. Try to keep warm.

          • BOGANOZOI on 06/02/2023 - 23:42

            @misu p: Lol! How dare you compare news corp to chinese propaganda! Seems our former pm does not think newscorp as a toddler like you did mate. When Germany voted for that man, they did not expect democracy would bring them to this far or deep. They thought him as a positive toddler. How on earth a toddler able to damage a country that bad right?

    • belongsinforums on 30/01/2023 - 23:59

      it is nice avoiding aussie bogans there. sadly there are chinese bogans there lol

      • ozbking on 31/01/2023 - 01:32

        They have become better, you don’t hear of Chinese children toileting on the plane aisle anymore.

        • belongsinforums on 31/01/2023 - 08:11

          You'll probably still see it on the bus like i did

          • xoom on 31/01/2023 - 08:13

            @belongsinforums: I rembered my sister telling a story might have been in the forbidden city. Kid was wearing these pants that split apart if kid crouches down.

            Long story short kid did crouch down and started laying pipe then and there. Got up and walked off like it was an everyday thing kids do.

            • belongsinforums on 31/01/2023 - 08:15

              @xoom: Yea very common in Beijing. To be fair, public toilets there are worse than ours

        • BOGANOZOI on 06/02/2023 - 23:47

          Did not see this is worse than genocide of TASMANIAN.

  • plmko on 30/01/2023 - 23:42

    Protip: Book a Chinese or related airline not to go to China but to avoid Boeing aircraft.

  • [Deactivated] on 30/01/2023 - 23:47
    +8

    Mmm … a cheap ticket to 1 Billion people infected with Covid. What a Bargain !!!

    • mengqing on 30/01/2023 - 23:52
      -3

      Why are you scared of a flu?

      • [Deactivated] on 30/01/2023 - 23:53
        +3

        Is Covid the Flu ? … do tell

      • ozbking on 31/01/2023 - 01:34
        +4

        You should be scared, regardless of Australia or China. Try losing your sense of smell, or have fatigue for many months. Repeated infections only increase the risk of long COVID (aka PASC)

      • HK Refugee on 31/01/2023 - 19:46
        -2

        @mengqing I forgot which city started all this already ;)

  • Spacexyz on 30/01/2023 - 23:57
    +5

    Apart from the CCP dirty jokes, Sydney is only on par with China's 3rd tier city. If you haven't been there, you might bite the bullet and have a real visit by yourself. Booking my ticket soon, my last visit to Hangzhou was about 4 years ago, geez.

    • MuddyClear on 31/01/2023 - 00:07

      Cool story bro

    • ozbking on 31/01/2023 - 01:44

      Care to elaborate which aspects you feel are better?

    • effraye on 31/01/2023 - 08:41

      yet you are still here… i love all these pro CCP people who choose to live here.

      • jaydee4 on 31/01/2023 - 09:55
        +4

        Indeed. Don't you just hate those folks with #IStandWith<Insert Place/Group here> but never actually stand anywhere near where they said they would?
        You're different. I salute you for that.

        If you want to live in a Democracy, please make sure there's only one hive mind and then purge the rest.

      • Spacexyz on 31/01/2023 - 10:35
        +8

        Visiting China = Pro CCP? You are hilarious, you really need a doctor mate. If I travel to North Korea someday, you will say I love Kim Jong-un, his father, and his father's father. Please don't tell people you're from Australia, unbelievable.

        • effraye on 31/01/2023 - 12:38

          To be chinese is to be pro CCP… for 3000 years.

    • nonoannie on 31/01/2023 - 11:51
      -1

      I went to Hangzhou about that time too. And i was pretty disappointed. West lake and bamboo forest is beautiful. But the city was just ok, nothing better than Sydney. There was a night market near my hotel, street food was pretty nice and cheap, but not comparable to Taiwan’s night market. And I watched two shows there, Impression West Lake and Lengend of Song Dynasty; both were terrible and very boring. Dont waste your money buying those show ticket.

  • erics on 31/01/2023 - 00:10
    +2

    I don’t get it why are prices so expensive if you just want to go Guangzhou…

    • plague69 on 31/01/2023 - 00:22

      Maybe the other cities are subsidizing the sale or the airline is trying to fill mostly empty domestic routes from Guangzhou

    • effraye on 31/01/2023 - 08:41
      +2

      canton fair

  • Victor Wang on 31/01/2023 - 00:17

    机票买早了，郁闷 :(

    • jowu15 on 31/01/2023 - 00:22
      +1

      Those advertised prices are only for a some specific dates, and often very hard to fit into your travelling plan. There is no point about upset about it. I envy your opportunity to travel.

      • Victor Wang on 31/01/2023 - 00:28

        I've just spot-checked the price on my travel dates. Yeah, you are right. Thanks, I feel better now.

        • jowu15 on 31/01/2023 - 00:44
          +3

          Find a better price than you paid for is part of life, that happens to everyone. When you made the purchase you think its worth it than its all that is important. Be happy

  • watwatwat on 31/01/2023 - 00:23
    +1

    I hear the Wuhan Institute of Virology is wonderful this time of year.

  • PhilsComputerLab on 31/01/2023 - 00:30
    +2

    Is China open for tourists??

    • plague69 on 31/01/2023 - 00:34

      Apparently, yeah… No quarantine, but PCR before departure. I had to double check the no quarantine part cos I couldn't believe my eyes, but yes apparently

    • jimbo jones on 31/01/2023 - 01:11
      +3

      Only limited visa types are available (business, family reunion, compassionate visa).
      It's open for Chinese citizens to leave and come back….

      May open up for more visa types in a few months.

      And if you have South Korean passport, they may still ban you.
      They have unblocked Japanese to get visas.
      ymmv

  • THEMAN_AUS on 31/01/2023 - 00:51
    +3

    I quite liked my time in china but I dont know if I'd want to travel there due to the fact that their healthcare system ain't great and the virus is literally everywhere there. This from someone who does not wear a mask here

  • OzBargainerr on 31/01/2023 - 01:06

    Great price! 3months ago was $8000 one way.

  • nzthunderboy on 31/01/2023 - 01:48
    -1

    Just don’t go to Wuhan open market. I don’t want to go into lockdown anymore. Thank you

    • xoom on 31/01/2023 - 08:18

      So bat soup and bbq pangolin out of the menu then?

  • sgtdanny69148 on 31/01/2023 - 02:15
    -2

    Passport is blue? Has a shield held up by a kangaroo and emu on each side? says 'Australia' across it? Well then prepared to be detained as a 'Foreign Spy' or better yet be arrested and charged under the "Picking quarrels and provoking trouble" law because you got scammed hundreds of dollars at a dodgy tea house and you argued with the scammers.

  • Dack Smith on 31/01/2023 - 05:53
    +2

    Crazy Aussie tourist gets into China - gets put in prison for made up political crimes - crying and asks for help from Australian government for an impossible rescue. Yay makes the news too!

    Not sure why dumbasses still reinvent the wheel and act like children when it comes to their health and safety.

    If you want to play the odds and go, don’t expect any sympathy or rescue if things do go wrong.

    It’s called personal accountability and there is a distinct lack of it in Australia right now.

    • xoom on 31/01/2023 - 06:17
      +1

      Sadly the ill discipline started from a young age in most cases. Parents afraid to say no to their kids.

      Raising their kids with this oh he/she is a free spirit. I let them be to so they they can find their self.

      It all results in a kid doing anything ang everything they want with little to no sequences if ever they mess up.

      • BeauKilla on 31/01/2023 - 09:00

        Cool story bro

  • Notacommie on 31/01/2023 - 07:13

    Never forget at very start of pandemic china stopped thier domestic flights in January 2020 but continue international flights for virus to spread till march. Chinese government criticised decisions by other countries to stop travel to china while they themselves banned internal flights.
    Now they are struggling economically they want all the recovered people back as a cash cow.

    • jowu15 on 31/01/2023 - 10:01
      +4

      That’s not true. China stop all transportation out of wuhan area, international or domestic

      • Notacommie on 31/01/2023 - 12:21
        +1

        Here is the timeline as follows
        "On January 22 at a meeting to decide the measures to be taken, WHO was not able warn the world of the severity of COVID-19 apparently because of resistance from Beijing. (WHO referred to it as “divergent views”) On January 23 Wuhan city was placed under quarantine and two days later the entire Hubei province was locked down. The Chinese state machinery was harnessed to enforce an unprecedented quarantine on 50 million people across 15 cities. In the last week of January domestic flights from Hubei to other parts of China was stopped and restrictions on traffic movement in major cities like Beijing and Shanghai were initiated. This was the time of the Chinese New Year when offices and schools are normally closed and it is also the prime tourism season for the Chinese. On the 31st January Italy fearing a major outbreak of Coronavirus from hundreds of tourists arriving from China closed all flights to and from China"

        • jowu15 on 31/01/2023 - 19:18
          +2

          January 23rd China put Hubei province in Lockdown, so no domestic or international flights were allowed but flights did not stop from other part of China. So you first statement China stopped domestic flights in January 2020 but continue international flight is not correct.

  • Thaos on 31/01/2023 - 08:04
    +1

    China Southern has the worst customer service of any airline I've flown. It makes Jetstar look like a luxury airline.

    • AlanJ on 31/01/2023 - 09:24

      Sadly, I have to partly agree with Thaos. I looked at the bargain basement airfare first, then saw that it was China Southern, and that was enough for me. Nice planes, though, and a full-service airline (unlike Jetstar)…. but it's the only time in my life I have ever been treated like a second-class citizen because I wasn't the same nationality as the majority. Maybe you'll be luckier than I…. but don't expect the attendants to hide their feelings towards non-Chinese, and don't expect the normal rules of politeness regarding seat-reclining to operate on this airline….everyone else will think you're a wimp if you don't take every millimetre you can get, right away, and hold onto it it regardless. The only airline I wouldn't fly again, and I've flown with some bizarre ones in my sixty-plus years of overseas travel.

    • cache on 31/01/2023 - 13:56

      In early 2019, pre-pandemic, I had the (dis)pleasure of taking a 10-hour China Southern flight from CAN-MEL without inflight entertainment (no seatback tv). Imagine that.

      • belongsinforums on 31/01/2023 - 18:18
        +1

        Don't you guys have phones?

      • AlanJ on 01/02/2023 - 09:35
        -1

        No seatback TV wouldn't have worried me a bit…. our plane had these, but it was hard to see them, anyway, because the first thing the passengers do when taking their seats (after pushing your bag roughly out of their way in the overhead locker so they can maximise their own space) is to recline their seats absolutely as far as they will go…. right down to the last millimeter. The extra space they have won is "protected" as if it were Taiwan real estate or territory in the China Sea, or cans of baby food at Coles. Right from when the plane is standing on the tarmac…. no worries about what I had always thought was an international regulation, which is that seats must be upright for take-off. Not on this plane leaving its home airport. The attendants were busy, pre-take-off, showing passengers how to fully recline their seats and doing it for the ones who were new to the game. When I asked the attendant, at meal time, might I have the seat in front of me raised so that I could use the meal tray (I had already asked the person in front, who had merely snarled in reply), the advice I got was to fully-recline my own seat so that I gained more space by taking it from the person behind me. My payback for saying that I didn't want to do that, because I didn't need to sleep right away, and I didn't think that was a courteous way to act, was that I didn't have a choice of meal like the other passengers did… I was told "no more left" (which was demonstrably untrue) when the Asian meal was put in front of me instead of the European meal I had requested. I could go on and on, but no one wants to read a rant… just be warned!

        • xoom on 01/02/2023 - 09:46
          +1

          seats must be upright for take-off

          Landing and meal times also.

          And this oh but seat reclines therefore i shall recline it fully when i want without so much a consideration on the person behind me.

          Watch these whiners lose it if the plane seats no longer recline.

          Common decency and courtesy is sadly lost these days. Its all me me me.

          • AlanJ on 02/02/2023 - 10:09
            -1

            @xoom: I got the feeling it was all "us, us, us", and I was the one excluded from all the privileges! Maybe I ought to qualify my bad review by saying that this was only the (largest) leg of the journey between our stopover in China Southern's home town (can't remember the name, as we only saw the airport for eleven and a half hours…. despite earlier assurances, China Southern wouldn't give us the promised voucher to go past the airport gates, because (they said) "you wouldn't have time to see anything") and our final destination, Barcelona (I think). The first leg, from Sydney to China, was quite unmemorable and nothing too dire happened, so if you're only using that leg, you may have a perfectly good time with the airline. But the real sadness is that the experience I described soured me towards all the other airlines with "China" as part of the name… eastern, northern, western….. and, for all I know, they may be perfectly reasonable in their treatment of the hated whities. I have heard good things about Cathay Pacific and Hainan Airlines. But for our most-recent budget holidays, we played it safe and flew Qatar and Philippine Airlines! No problems

            • xoom on 02/02/2023 - 10:13

              @AlanJ: My old man speaks highly of cathay pacific. I have flown with them also. I can see why.

  • FlyingMiffy on 31/01/2023 - 08:04
    +2

    China Southern is actually a pretty good airline and mid 700s is starting to get back to pre-COVID pricing for a full service which these days is bargain territory. As to whether the destination is desirable, I'll leave that to the keyboard warriors…

  • effraye on 31/01/2023 - 08:37
    -2

    careful, admins are pro CCP

    • jaydee4 on 31/01/2023 - 09:49
      +5

      Admins will leak your personal info? Ban you from discounted prices? Cashrewards won't track? Kidnap your kids? Be more specific so the rest of us can prepare.

      • effraye on 31/01/2023 - 12:38

        Don't say anything anti- china, it's like Reddit now owned by 10-cent, anything remotely anti CCP and you are goneeee

  • Xianese on 31/01/2023 - 09:51

    It's probably wise to give it a year or two before going.
    I'm super keen to go back but not in the current state.

  • Seraphin7 on 31/01/2023 - 10:23
    +3

    I went to Wuhan and all I got was this lousy virus!

  • Mely on 31/01/2023 - 10:43
    +1

    Worst airline ever.

    • Frozensage on 31/01/2023 - 11:39

      I guess Jetstar can learn a thing or 2 from them then.

  • jaimex2 on 31/01/2023 - 10:54
    +1

    Anyone else see the irony of flying between the two most locked down places in the world for a holiday?

  • RoyT on 31/01/2023 - 11:35

    It's cheap from Aus to China, but the price goes crazy when from China to Aus

    • cache on 31/01/2023 - 13:58

      Did you learn 3rd degree price discrimination in uni econ?

  • Frozensage on 31/01/2023 - 11:38

    It's good to have China back online… now everything is more competitive, from airfares to condoms.

  • czxbnb on 31/01/2023 - 13:24
    +1

    That's not for tourists. The L (tourist) visa remains closed.
    That's for the Chinese migrants, like me, who haven't met my family for 3 years.

  • skipuwet on 31/01/2023 - 19:28

    Anyone know why it's cheap only for late Feb and March periods? Is it promo for the country opening in January or something? I want to travel later dates but they're all 3-4 times as much but may just go on these cheap dates. Wanted to know incase there's plans for other airlines to offer cheaper flights in later dates.

  • silverwalker on 31/01/2023 - 21:22
    +2

    90% of the comment is not related to the airfare deal. Useless arguing around politics, culture and shit.

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