United – $909: Houston – Chengdu, China. Roundtrip, including all Taxes

Enjoy Chengdu with their pandas and spicy sichuan food. This is a very limited fare. There’s more availability with fares within the $900 range (still 6CPM and under).

Chengdu at Night. Photo: pamhule via Flickr, used under Creative Commons License (By 2.0)

Sample Travel Date:

• October 22nd – 29th

Fare Availability:

• Valid for travel from through November 19th, 2014 and from December 3rd – December 17th, 2014 for Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday departures. Limited availability. Must purchase at least 21 days in advance of departure.

How to Search for Availability:

• Use ITA Software Matrix Airfare Search and use the following search criteria:

• Departing from: IAH
• Outbound Advanced Routing Code: ua+
• Destination:  CTU
• Return Advanced Routing Code: ua+
• (Click on Advanced Routing Codes link to enable advanced routing code input)
• Select “See calendar of lowest fares”
• Length of stay “0-7″. The maximum range is 7 days, so enter ranges like so: 0-7, 5-12, 7-14, etc.

Sample Routing:

• IAH – LAX (Los Angeles) – SFO (San Francisco) – CTU (Chengdu) – SFO – LAX – IAH

Sample Mileage:

• 17,128 miles or 5.3 cents per mile. This will earn 100% mileage so long as all flights are operated by United Airlines under United flight numbers.

Get Tickets:

• Book on Orbitz using dates found on ITA Software Matrix Airfare Search.  Make sure “Additional search options” is selected then check “Narrow the search to my preferred airlines” and select “United Airlines”.

For more of the latest deals for Houston, visit our Houston fares page.

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