{"id":25431,"date":"2025-10-21T21:10:44","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T20:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/?p=25431"},"modified":"2025-10-22T20:00:40","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T19:00:40","slug":"new-book-xiamen-airlines-flights-with-avios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/2025\/10\/21\/new-book-xiamen-airlines-flights-with-avios\/","title":{"rendered":"New: book Xiamen Airlines flights with Avios"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For those of us who registered for Hilton&#8217;s Qatar Airways promotion, the 750 bonus Avios has finally posted.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/qatar-airways-hilton-750-bonus-avios-posted.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"179\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/qatar-airways-hilton-750-bonus-avios-posted.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/qatar-airways-hilton-750-bonus-avios-posted.png 800w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/qatar-airways-hilton-750-bonus-avios-posted-300x67.png 300w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/qatar-airways-hilton-750-bonus-avios-posted-768x172.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the meantime, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qatarairways.com\/en-gb\/partners-codeshare\/xiamen-airlines.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\">Qatar Airways has announced enhanced partnership with China&#8217;s Xiamen Airlines<\/a>. The partnership has actually been around for a while and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/2024\/12\/29\/book-japan-xiamen-airlines-tickets-with-avios\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">some Xiamen codeshare flights were available for redemption using Avios<\/a>. With the new ties however we&#8217;d see more codeshare opportunities and reciprocal program benefits between the two airlines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In fact, you can already book Xiamen Airlines flights using Avios on Qatar&#8217;s website. Here are some pricing examples for one-way in economy, compared to what Virgin Atlantic charges:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Beijing &#8211; Shanghai: 12,000 + 122 CNY \/ 7,000 + 50 CNY<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fuzhou &#8211; Urumqi: 18,000 + 122 CNY \/ 11,500 + 50 CNY<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Xiamen &#8211; Taipei: 9,000 + 340 CNY \/ 5,500 + 384 CNY<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Xiamen &#8211; Seoul: 12,000 + 369 CNY \/ 10,000 + 439 CNY<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Xiamen &#8211; Osaka: 15,000 + 369 CNY \/ 10,000 + 419 CNY<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/qatar-airways-mf-pkx-pvg.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"326\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/qatar-airways-mf-pkx-pvg-1024x326.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25438\" style=\"width:500px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/qatar-airways-mf-pkx-pvg-1024x326.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/qatar-airways-mf-pkx-pvg-300x96.png 300w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/qatar-airways-mf-pkx-pvg-768x245.png 768w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/qatar-airways-mf-pkx-pvg.png 1227w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Virgin seems to be winning in all cases, but the Qatar option could still be useful if you are more of an Avios collector. Note that I&#8217;ve almost <strong>never <\/strong>seen any business class availability from Xiamen Airlines, except for the two codeshare routes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Xiamen &#8211; Doha: 60,000 + 960 CNY<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Beijing &#8211; Doha: 50,000 + 960 CNY<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/xiamen-air-first-class.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/xiamen-air-first-class.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/xiamen-air-first-class.png 500w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/xiamen-air-first-class-300x192.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An unspoken perk: if you are lucky enough to be on Xiamen&#8217;s 787-8 aircraft, the Avios ticket is actually booked into their First Class.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those of us who registered for Hilton&#8217;s Qatar Airways promotion, the 750 bonus Avios has finally posted. In the meantime, Qatar Airways has announced enhanced&#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":[20,157],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qatar-airways","category-xiamen-air"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25431","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=25431"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25442,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25431\/revisions\/25442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}