My husband and I are considering changing our plans for visiting Europe to visiting Asia this year. I have been researching BWI-Tokyo-Beijing-BWI for late May/early June, but the airfare for that timeframe is very expensive. The best that I can find is around $1500 online. I contacted Northwest and Continental directly about booking round-trip airfare to Beijing with a stop-over in Tokyo, and both said that the best airfare was around $2200pp. I’m also trying to contact jtbusa from recommendations on this board, but I haven’t had any luck yet. I checked into the Kobe-Tianjin ferry, but we have a limited amount of time and don’t want to spend two days on a ferry. Are these airfare prices typical? Are there any other resources that I can check into? Thanks in advance!

What are your dates of travel and how much flexibilty do you have?

how about a call to japan air and china air and also to eva air...

i am doing bkk at that time from boston for $1212 with 3 nites hotel included through northwest world vacations: 800-800-1504

Thanks for the replies. We would like to leave on 5/26 for Tokyo, fly Tokyo-Beijing on 6/4, then fly back from Beijing on 6/10 (or leave on 5/26 for Beijing, fly Beijing-Tokyo on 6/2, and fly back from Tokyo on 6/10). Unfortunately, the dates aren't very flexible.

Rhkkmk, I will check into the airlines you mentioned. I was able to call a couple of jbtusa's offices and was quoted $1150pp, including taxes, leaving 5/25 (he said 5/26 was booked) and returning 6/10 on AA. That price didn't seem unreasonable. I'm going to call those that were closed today, tomorrow, since I received different info from each of them.

I took a look for fares on your dates and couldn't beat the $1150 you found.

One option might be to buy a ticket to Japan for $800 (or less) and use 20,000 FF miles to fly between Japan and Beijing.

And, in case you didn't know, All Nippon Airways has nonstop flights between Washington Dulles and Tokyo.

i ahve been working with an agent in nyc who i found here...he has given great ideas and is knowledgeable...give him a whirl

chip cooper: [email protected]

Thanks again, Mrwunrfl and Rhkkmk. I will check into ANA's flights and e-mail the travel agent for further assistance.