If you are going to have your China Tours, the first and biggest thing is to book airline tickets. You may think about to get round trip tickets on the website of airline companies such as China Flights. Wait a moment; there are many other ways to get cheaper round trip tickets.
In our impression, round trip tickets would be cheaper than two separate tickets. However, this may not be true. Sometimes, a round trip ticket may be even higher than two tickets. Normally, if you are traveling domestically, the price of the round trip tickets would be almost the same with that of two separate tickets. If you are traveling internationally, the airline companies usually give you a big discount. For example, traveling from the U.S. to Beijing is about 900 dollars. But the round trip tickets are only about 1300 dollars or even less. So you can make a decision before you start to do the reservation.
One way to get cheap round trip tickets is to compare the price between one way and round trip. Sometimes you may get more discounts for two one-way airline tickets. You should know how to compare.
Another way to get cheap round trip tickets is to get them from a travel agency. Since the travel agency has corporate relations with a lot of airline companies, their price would be much lower because they purchase tickets for a lot of groups. It is like the difference between wholesale and retail. So you can contact a travel agency and tell them the day of your leaving and arrival. But the thing is actually you are not going to travel with them. In this way, you just have to give the travel agency a small amount of fee. So if the total price from the travel agency is lower than you do it directly from airline companies, then you can choose to do it from the travel agency. If the price is higher than the “retail price”, then you can do it by yourself. You can call the travel agency and consult their price.
Sometimes there are some tickets being sold at a very low price. At this time, you should pay attention to some details such as whether you can change the date afterwards or not. If you are not sure of the date of coming back, you should buy an open ticket. Even an open ticket may charge you extra money when you have decided the date of your coming back. So be careful and ask for this information before you purchase an airline ticket.
In all, if you are traveling domestically, you can buy two tickets separately. If you are going abroad, you should consider the round trip airline tickets and compare with the price of two separate tickets. You can also book your tickets from a travel agency. For more information about the airline tickets to China, you can go to Air China.
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