The Truth About Flying Domestic In China: There Are Some Interesting Similarities And Differences Versus The US

I'd never been to China or even Asia before, so I decided to use the opportunity to see some other parts of the other side of the world.

So, Monday morning, I woke up at 4:30 A.M. and headed to Beijing Capital airport (PEK) for an early morning flight 800 miles south to a city near Shanghai called Hangzhou.

To get there, I flew Hainan Airlines - a domestic carrier.

In many ways, the experience was just like flying a US carrier from New York to Chicago, also an 800 mile flight. But there were some key differences.