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Family members were due to fly MEL-HKG-TPE on CX this week. Late last week CX started offering refund without penalty due to Taiwan enforcing restrictions on foreigners arriving in Taiwan who had transited through HKG. They took the refund and rebooked on a direct flight MEL-TPE with CI which...

I work for a Taiwan-based tech company at their HQ and all travel is international from Taipei. Anyone below dept head or executive level is in Y. Tickets are booked using a corporate travel agent and either the company or the agent seems to have a preference for EVA air so we usually end up on...

Have seen recently some stories on various blogs/forums regarding being refused 24-hour TWOV on a layover shorter than 24 hours (especially 8-12 hours on a same-day transit and mostly at PVG). Just to be clear, these travellers have been allowed to transit to their onward flight, but not been...

I've done the HKG-CAN and reverse (as mentioned earlier) which is an A330-300. 74 miles.

Thanks for sharing, enjoying this TR very much!

Amazing trip report, couldn't stop reading. Thanks so much for putting in the time to share is such great detail.

I've several times done west coast USA to TPE without getting up, which is around 13 hours. These flights leave at around midnight and I usually sleep most of the way after being exhausted from a week of work or play in the US.

Three hours should be enough, as mentioned above, immigration moves quite quickly and I usually find Terminal 2 to move quicker than Terminal 1 at peak times. There's quite a few flights arriving from the USA around the same time as you, however many of the non-Taiwanese are transiting on to...

I also forgot to mention that I was able to credit this ticket to EVA Infinity Mileagelands, 50% (S) on the way over and 25% (L) on the way back, not a whole lot of miles, but better than the many, more expensive non-mileage tickets I've taken before on other airlines. No credit given for KrisFlyer.

Conclusion Was I happy with Air China? Yes, quite. I paid for a service - to get me to and from Europe safely and in a timely manner - and I got it. There was not one time when I was cursing myself for not paying the extra money to fly on another carrier. Would I fly Air China again? Yes, if...

So as I said the main reason I wrote this trip report was to provide information for those thinking of flying Air China and trying to work out whether it's as good or as bad as the reviews say it is. I think I should probably start by saying that I was lucky that nothing like a cancellation or...

CA191 PVG-TPE Scheduled: 0800-1000 On to the last flight of the trip. Boarding again called early and bussed out to remote stand. After waiting quite a while for several other busloads of people we were off pretty much on time. Same A333 as we'd had from TPE to PEK but that didn't matter as I...

Now this is where I can see some people getting frustrated. For me never having transferred at PVG before, and the fact it was 5:30 in the morning coming off a flight with little sleep, Shanghai Pudong airport is a shambles. There were signs pointing towards 'international to international'...

Paris was good but not great, and after a lot of cheese and wine it was time for the return trip to Taipe via PVG. Arrived at CDG around 2 hours before departure to find an empty check-in line and therefore no wait, which I found strange considering the adjacent line for the flight to PEK was...

As I said, this report is not so much about the whole trip as the actual flights so I won't go into too much detail about Europe. Needless to say Madrid was amazing (first time there) and we ate and drank endlessly for three days, not wanting to leave. The hop over to Paris was a separately...