{"id":19105,"date":"2024-05-07T07:57:52","date_gmt":"2024-05-07T06:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/?p=19105"},"modified":"2024-05-09T08:16:55","modified_gmt":"2024-05-09T07:16:55","slug":"united-price-drop-intra-asia-flights-for-5k-miles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/2024\/05\/07\/united-price-drop-intra-asia-flights-for-5k-miles\/","title":{"rendered":"United price drop: intra-Asia flights for 5k miles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(Deal back, but no stop is allowed anymore)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>United had a lot of pricing changes a few days ago &#8211; many bloggers were raging about &#8220;a major devaluation&#8221;. It looks more like a result of United&#8217;s trials in my view, and we can actually see some positive changes in the latest development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In short, certain routes in Asia that are under 800 miles cost only 5k now, one-way in economy. It appears that mainland China, Japan and South Korea are somehow grouped into one region &#8211; 5k was the standard pricing for domestic flights in Japan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tokyo to Seoul for example, used to cost 8k miles and we already thought it was a good deal:<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/05\/united-icn-nrt.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"357\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/05\/united-icn-nrt.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19108\" style=\"width:516px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/05\/united-icn-nrt.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/05\/united-icn-nrt-300x134.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/05\/united-icn-nrt-768x343.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The new pricing mechanism benefits China-Japan flights the most, if such itinerary is under 800 miles. For example Shanghai to Fukuoka:<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/05\/united-pvg-fuk.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"501\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/05\/united-pvg-fuk.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19109\" style=\"width:500px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/05\/united-pvg-fuk.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/05\/united-pvg-fuk-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/05\/united-pvg-fuk-768x481.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>And it doesn&#8217;t matter how many stops you have in between.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/05\/united-szx-isg.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"577\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/05\/united-szx-isg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19110\" style=\"width:501px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/05\/united-szx-isg.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/05\/united-szx-isg-300x216.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/05\/united-szx-isg-768x554.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure if it will be the new fixed cost going forward, or United&#8217;s system is still stabilising. If you happen to be flying one of these routes, you should consider booking your flight now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Deal back, but no stop is allowed anymore) United had a lot of pricing changes a few days ago &#8211; many bloggers were raging about &#8220;a&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-united-airlines"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19105"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19120,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19105\/revisions\/19120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}