Looking to do a mileage run to Asia. Best rates are to China. Coming from west coast. Is there a way to do this without having a visa?

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Google “pass through visa” or something like that. Basically with China if you go to one of the major cities and you’re just “passing through” (arriving from one country and departing to another) then you don’t need a visa if you stay for less than 144 hours.

If you want to be safe ok. But have done this twice this year: one way to China, and different one way back (via a different country) and gave me no problems (not the airline and even less at immigration)

Do people really spend hundreds/thousands of dollars just to get ~5% back in rewards and marginal additional status benefits ?

I spent 300 to do a trip to HKG - got a custom suit and EXP for the full next year. The irrops support - even without anything else - was totally worth it.

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