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11thEarlOfMar
Round Trip, SFO<->PEK mid-November, non-stop on United currently $477, per Hipmunk.

Last time I saw fares this low was in 2006, where I flew SFO<->LHR for about $450. $250 of that was fees & taxes. United got $100 to fly me non stop to London.

ctruzzi
There have been under ~$500 prices for West Coast to PEK and PVG with semi-regularity for the last 12 months.
madidi707
We're scaling the site - if you receive blank page please come back in few mins. Thanks for interest!
tuccinator
Not a very good time to post it if the website isn't functioning properly.
androidfox
The site goes down when it hits HN the first time. That is just the way it works :)
madidi707
We tried to test it beforehand but it's hard to prepare for such a number of users :) We've launched just 3 weeks ago. If you leave the site open it loads after a while, or you can bookmark it and come back - it's worth it :)
tuccinator
That's understandable. My apologies.
bdcravens
How much load are you talking about? Once it finally loaded for me, I gave up after about 45 seconds. I suspect you're doing some really cool things on the backend, in terms of checking permutations of flights and wiring together the cheapest rates. Still, I wonder if you're doing anything with your Angular front-end that really hurting usability.
raldi
Got a screenshot?
mattlondon
Does not load for me. How did a blank page get to the front page on HN?
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madidi707
Hi, it's down because of high traffic, we're working on it and it should be back up soon :)
devty
Where is the background images taken place?
uola
Yangshuo, China would be my guess.
kjbflsudfb
Is this affiliated with AirBnB? If not, I can't help but think that the logos have a similar shape and the font appears to be the same, too.
madidi707
Ok, it's loading now! You can go ahead and take that around the world flight :)
AdamGibbins
Entirely unrelated to the content, but wow, that's a horrific URL. There's a #hackernews channel on Freenode that streams front page news - the URL took up 4 lines and got reported as a bug, as it looks like one.
tuccinator
The person's search should be shareable as a search token instead of JSON.