by Absentmindedprofessor » Sun Jan 20, 2019 6:24 pm
The joys of transferring: the last two years with the rise of the chinese airlines, and their fares being significantly lower than the others, I flew twice with them ams-pnh, on both occasions I had to fill in a application form for a 24hour chinese transit visa, to go through customs, and check in for the next international flight. The flights were pretty OK, both with xiamen airlines and china southern airlines, but the transferring is still quite a bit of hassle (luckily you do not have to pick up the luggage in china, just show the luggage receipts.). weird fact: the transfer desk at xiamen airport does not handle transfers, they only occasionally staff it to redirect transferring travelers to the normal check in desks, that only open about 2hours in advance.
The joys of transferring: the last two years with the rise of the chinese airlines, and their fares being significantly lower than the others, I flew twice with them ams-pnh, on both occasions I had to fill in a application form for a 24hour chinese transit visa, to go through customs, and check in for the next international flight. The flights were pretty OK, both with xiamen airlines and china southern airlines, but the transferring is still quite a bit of hassle (luckily you do not have to pick up the luggage in china, just show the luggage receipts.). weird fact: the transfer desk at xiamen airport does not handle transfers, they only occasionally staff it to redirect transferring travelers to the normal check in desks, that only open about 2hours in advance.