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  1. #1

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    Travel search

    Hi,

    I'm soon moving to HK. One of the things I really plan to do is travel around a lot. I need some help to find the best search-engines for airflights in HK area (as for example mrjet.com). Could you give me those that finds the best prices for flights from/to HK?

    Also could you recommend some companies for more organized tourist visits to countries around HK?

    Thanks!
    Rob


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    For China, ctrip.com

    For everywhere else cathaypacific.com (and every other airline website).

    Air Asia is a favourite for budget travellers (not me).

    Also, for tours, best to look in the ads in the local newspaper or trawl the small travel agencies. Not so much of an "online" phenomenon.


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    So there is no good search engine that scans all airline websites for best possible price?


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    Depends where you want to go.
    some people like zuji but they don't cover all airlines.


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    For China, Ctrip is not the best price wise. Along with Elong.com, both are decent in price and good for convenience.

    If you want rock-bottom prices, Qunar.com is the place.
    Qunar will lead to a number of mainland travel agents, most of them cheaper than Ctrip but a lot more painful to buy from :-) To start with Qunar.com is Chinese only. Google translate does help but not 100%. Next pain is the travel agents : Some will demand cash, some will demand Chinese credit card and some just wont want to talk to you if they know you are not internal in China but in the end, if you can navigate thru all that, you wont be able to beat the prices from Qunar.

    For those in Hong Kong, I would also recommend looking at travelzen.com ; fairly decent prices but located in Hong Kong and better and more responsive and responsible service.


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    You can find a lot of great information on this website. Just do a few custom searches and that should take care of everything for you.

    Here is one site I like... it may not be the best, but I like the map tool that it has:

    KAYAK Explore - see where you can go for how much

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  7. #7
    Quote Originally Posted by RobRoy:
    So there is no good search engine that scans all airline websites for best possible price?
    That's right. There are too many low cost airlines or airlines from the developing world operating out of HKIA to have one comprehensive search engine.

    Below from wiki:


    Aeroflot Moscow-Sheremetyevo 1
    Aerosvit Airlines Kiev-Boryspil [begins 1 November] 2
    Air Busan Busan 1
    Air Canada Toronto-Pearson, Vancouver 1
    Air China Beijing-Capital, Chengdu, Chongqing, Dalian, Tianjin 1
    Air France Paris-Charles de Gaulle 1
    Air India Delhi, Osaka-Kansai, Seoul-Incheon 1
    Air Mauritius Mauritius 1
    Air New Zealand Auckland, London-Heathrow 1
    Air Niugini Port Moresby 1
    Air Pacific Nadi 1
    AirAsia Kota Kinabalu, Kuala Lumpur, Penang 2
    Airphil Express Cebu [begins 28 July] 2
    All Nippon Airways Osaka-Kansai, Tokyo-Haneda 1
    All Nippon Airways
    operated by Air Japan Tokyo-Narita 1
    Asiana Airlines Busan, Seoul-Incheon 1
    Bangkok Airways Koh Samui 2
    Biman Bangladesh Airlines Dhaka 1
    British Airways London-Heathrow 1
    Cathay Pacific Abu Dhabi, Adelaide, Amsterdam, Auckland, Bahrain, Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Beijing-Capital, Brisbane, Cairns, Cebu, Chennai, Chicago-O'Hare [begins 1 September],[30] Colombo, Delhi, Denpasar/Bali, Dubai, Frankfurt, Fukuoka, Ho Chi Minh City, Jakarta-Soekarno-Hatta, Jeddah, Johannesburg, Karachi, Kuala Lumpur, London-Heathrow, Los Angeles, Manila, Melbourne, Milan-Malpensa, Moscow-Domodedovo, Mumbai, Nagoya-Centrair, New York-JFK, Osaka-Kansai, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Penang, Perth, Riyadh, Rome-Fiumicino, San Francisco, Sapporo-Chitose, Seoul-Incheon, Shanghai-Pudong, Singapore, Surabaya, Sydney, Taipei-Taoyuan, Tokyo-Haneda, Tokyo-Narita, Toronto-Pearson, Vancouver
    1
    Cebu Pacific Cebu, Clark, Manila 1
    China Airlines Jakarta-Soekarno-Hatta, Kaohsiung, Taipei-Taoyuan 1
    China Eastern Airlines Fuzhou, Hangzhou, Hefei, Jinan, Kunming, Nanchang, Nanjing, Ningbo, Qingdao, Shanghai-Hongqiao, Shanghai-Pudong, Shijiazhuang [resumes 1 November], Taiyuan, Wenzhou, Wuxi, Xi'an 1
    China Southern Airlines Beijing-Capital, Changchun, Guangzhou, Guilin, Meixian, Nanning, Shantou, Shenyang, Wuhan, Yiwu [ends 31 August], Zhanjiang, Zhengzhou 1
    Continental Airlines Guam, Ho Chi Minh City [begins 30 October], Newark, Singapore [begins 30 October], Tokyo-Narita [begins 31 October] 1
    Delta Air Lines Detroit, Tokyo-Narita 1
    Dragonair Bangalore, Beijing-Capital, Busan, Changsha, Chengdu, Chongqing, Dhaka, Fukuoka, Fuzhou, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Hanoi, Kaohsiung, Kathmandu, Kota Kinabalu, Kunming, Manila, Naha, Nanjing, Ningbo, Phnom Penh, Phuket, Qingdao, Sanya, Shanghai-Hongqiao, Shanghai-Pudong, Taipei-Taoyuan, Wuhan, Xiamen
    Seasonal: Sendai 1
    El Al Tel Aviv 1
    Emirates Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Dubai 1
    Ethiopian Airlines Addis Ababa, Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi 1
    EVA Air Taipei-Taoyuan 1
    Finnair Helsinki 1
    Fly Guam
    operated by Sky King, Inc. Saipan 2
    Garuda Indonesia Denpasar/Bali, Jakarta-Soekarno-Hatta, Surabaya 1
    Hong Kong Airlines Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Beijing-Capital, Changsha, Denpasar/Bali, Guilin, Hangzhou, Hanoi, Kunming, Moscow-Sheremetyevo, Phuket, Sanya, Shanghai-Hongqiao, Shanghai-Pudong, Singapore, Tokyo-Narita
    Charter: Guiyang, Malé, Naypyidaw, Shantou 1
    Hong Kong Express Airways Beijing-Capital, Chengdu [begins 1 August], Chongqing [begins 1 September], Haikou, Harbin, Manila, Nanning, Okinawa-Naha, Osaka-Kansai, Sanya, Sapporo-Chitose, Shanghai-Pudong, Taichung
    Seasonal Seoul-Incheon
    Seasonal Charter: Lanzhou, Manzhouli 1
    Indonesia AirAsia Medan [ends 11 September] 2
    Japan Airlines Tokyo-Haneda, Tokyo-Narita 1
    Jeju Air Busan, Seoul-Incheon 1
    Jetstar Asia Airways Singapore 2
    Jet Airways Delhi, Mumbai 2
    Juneyao Airlines Shanghai-Pudong 2
    Kenya Airways Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Nairobi 1
    Kingfisher Airlines Delhi, Mumbai 2
    KLM Amsterdam 1
    Korean Air Busan, Cheongju [resumes 30 October], Seoul-Incheon
    Charter: Daegu [ends 22 August] 1
    Lufthansa Frankfurt, Munich 1
    Malaysia Airlines Kota Kinabalu, Kuala Lumpur, Kuching 1
    Mandarin Airlines Kaohsiung, Taichung 1
    Mega Global Air Gan, Male' 1
    MIAT Mongolian Airlines Ulan Bator 1
    Nepal Airlines Kathmandu 1
    Orient Thai Airlines Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi 1
    Pakistan International Airlines Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Islamabad, Lahore 1
    Philippine Airlines Manila 2
    Qantas Brisbane, London-Heathrow, Melbourne, Perth, Sydney 1
    Qatar Airways Doha 1
    Royal Brunei Airlines Bandar Seri Begawan 1
    Royal Jordanian Amman-Queen Alia, Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi 2
    S7 Airlines Vladivostok [begins 2 November] 2
    Saudi Arabian Airlines Jeddah, Riyadh 1
    Shanghai Airlines Shanghai-Hongqiao, Shanghai-Pudong, Xuzhou 1
    Shenzhen Airlines Quanzhou 2
    Sichuan Airlines Beihai, Chengdu, Yichang 1
    Singapore Airlines San Francisco, Singapore 1
    South African Airways Johannesburg 2
    South East Asian Airlines Clark 2
    Spring Airlines Shanghai-Pudong, Shijiazhuang 2
    SriLankan Airlines Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Colombo 1
    Swiss International Air Lines Zürich 1
    Tianjin Airlines Tianjin 2
    Thai AirAsia Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Phuket 2
    Thai Airways International Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Phuket, Seoul-Incheon 2
    Tiger Airways Singapore 2
    Transaero Airlines Seasonal: Moscow-Domodedovo [resumes 29 July] 2
    Turkish Airlines Istanbul-Atatürk 1
    United Airlines Chicago-O'Hare, Ho Chi Minh City [ends 29 October], San Francisco, Singapore [ends 29 October] 1
    Vietnam Airlines Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City 1
    Virgin Atlantic Airways London-Heathrow, Sydney 1
    Xiamen Airlines Xiamen, Wuyishan 1

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    (cute interface)
    Kayak explore may be good for NA, but its practically unusable for Hong Kong. Did you actually try it for starting in Hong Kong ?


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    I've tried out Hipmunk Hipmunk: Better Flight and Hotel Search a few times and while the coverage of airlines and flights may not be huge, i like the visual results as a way to compare trip times, transfers, stopovers etc.

    You can click through to purchase the flight once you've found the best one.


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    There is skyscanner