Are tickets from Damascus to Shanghai now priced at 3.82 million yuan? Insiders say it may be a supplier error, and the platform no longer has Syria-to-domestic flights available for sale.

On February 28, there were reports that a flight departing at 17:00 local time from Damascus to Shanghai Pudong Airport on a ticketing platform app had its fare increased by more than 3.82 million yuan. In response to the flight with the “17:00 local departure and a ticket price of over 3.82 million yuan,” a relevant insider explained that such cases are often due to manual entry errors made by suppliers in their back-end systems, which cause abnormal pricing to appear on the front end. “If it’s really an overpriced ticket, it will definitely be removed from the platform as soon as possible to avoid affecting users and public opinion.” The insider also stressed that air ticket prices on the ticketing platform are entered and sold by the suppliers themselves; the price difference is earned by the suppliers, while the ticketing platform only serves as a display and transaction-matching platform and would not benefit from this, and that there is also “no need to take the risk of directing traffic to suppliers.” Around 18:10 on February 28, the reporter checked the ticketing platform app and found that there were no longer any sellable flights on that date from Damascus to Shanghai. However, some flights were still on sale on March 1 and after, including multiple high-priced options: for example, a flight departing on March 1 with connections in Doha and Kuala Lumpur had a tax-inclusive ticket price of nearly 60k yuan; a flight with connections in Doha and Beijing had a ticket price of over 70k yuan; and a flight with connections in Doha and Guangzhou had a ticket price of nearly 70k yuan. At the same time, there were also regular flights with connections in Doha priced at over 10k yuan, but the price changes were very frequent. By 18:40, the reporter checked the ticketing platform app and found that there were no longer any air tickets available from Syria to cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, and Hong Kong. (China Economic Net)