Star Alliance airline member Air China has several Asian cities priced lower from Los Angeles LAX than competition today with Taipei $677, Tokyo $678, Bangkok $730 and Singapore $764.
This $678 fare to Tokyo flying via Beijing is nearly $200 less than nonstop flights with ANA, United and Delta for a one-stop via Beijing. Low fares begin for departures from mid-August to mid-December. Nearly every date in November is at low fare.
Air China Los Angeles LAX – Tokyo Haneda HND
$678.17 September 2-11, 2015
ANA, Delta and United nonstop flights price at $865.
Air China U economy class earns 50% miles with United Mileage Plus for 7,553 redeemable miles on this 15,107 flight miles routing LAX-PEK-HND-PEK-LAX.
I notice CA have good deals from SIN-PEK-IAD as well. It went as low as US$800-900 which is really fantastic since ex-SIN has always been expensive to US.
Will use them to visit family in IAD as long as fares are in this range.