{"id":23076,"date":"2025-03-26T22:20:27","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T22:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/?p=23076"},"modified":"2025-03-26T22:20:27","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T22:20:27","slug":"excellent-hainan-business-class-deal-from-london-to-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/2025\/03\/26\/excellent-hainan-business-class-deal-from-london-to-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Excellent Hainan business class deal from London to China"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although European airlines are struggling with their Asian routes because of the Russian airspace problem, Chinese airlines have been adding numerous European routes like never before and as a result great sale fares can be seen frequently &#8211; except the UK ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And the wait is finally over, thanks to Hainan Airlines:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Route: London &#8211; Chengdu, with stop(s) at Brussels and \/ or Beijing<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>London &#8211; Brussels is operated by Brussels Airlines, the remaining by Hainan<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>One-way fare is around \u00a3750, roundtrip about \u00a31,200<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sporadic availability from April to October<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Stopovers are allowed<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Use Google Flights and Skyscanner to find dates. If you don&#8217;t know, Chengdu is a large city in Southwest China famous for pandas and spicy food (with Sichuan pepper). Unfortunately UK is still not on China&#8217;s visa waiver program, but British Citizens are eligible for the transit-without-visa program as long as they are travelling onward to Hong Kong or a third country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The earliest travel date seems to be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/hu-lhr-tfu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\">April 19th<\/a>:<\/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\/2025\/03\/skyscanner-hu-lhr-tfu.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"555\" src=\"http:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/03\/skyscanner-hu-lhr-tfu.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23073\" style=\"width:500px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/03\/skyscanner-hu-lhr-tfu.png 800w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/03\/skyscanner-hu-lhr-tfu-300x208.png 300w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/03\/skyscanner-hu-lhr-tfu-768x533.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you don&#8217;t intend to travel back from Chengdu, a one-way itinerary is also possible. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/hu-lhr-bjs-tfu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\">You can add a stopover at Beijing<\/a>, allowing you to visit the capital for a few days first:<\/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\/2025\/03\/skyscanner-hu-lhr-bjs-tfu.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"485\" src=\"http:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/03\/skyscanner-hu-lhr-bjs-tfu.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23074\" style=\"width:500px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/03\/skyscanner-hu-lhr-bjs-tfu.png 800w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/03\/skyscanner-hu-lhr-bjs-tfu-300x182.png 300w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/03\/skyscanner-hu-lhr-bjs-tfu-768x466.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And of course, you can stretch further with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/hu-lhr-bru-bjs-tfu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\">a stopover at Brussels<\/a> too.<\/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\/2025\/03\/skyscanner-hu-lhr-bru-bjs-tfu.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"646\" src=\"http:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/03\/skyscanner-hu-lhr-bru-bjs-tfu.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23075\" style=\"width:500px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/03\/skyscanner-hu-lhr-bru-bjs-tfu.png 800w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/03\/skyscanner-hu-lhr-bru-bjs-tfu-300x242.png 300w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/03\/skyscanner-hu-lhr-bru-bjs-tfu-768x620.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As long as you are staying at Brussels for over 24 hours, the fare will drop to around \u00a3650 because of the lower APD. It&#8217;s an excellent business class deal for visiting three cities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ve never flown Hainan Airlines but heard good things about their business class. The drawback is your mileage crediting options are very limited, basically only Alaska (125%) or Etihad (85%) &#8211; the Brussels &#8211; Beijing segment appears to be booked in bucket R.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although European airlines are struggling with their Asian routes because of the Russian airspace problem, Chinese airlines have been adding numerous European routes like never before&#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":[44,161,39],"tags":[130],"class_list":["post-23076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-hainan-airlines","category-uk","tag-flight-sale"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23076","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=23076"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23082,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23076\/revisions\/23082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}