Reply To: London to Ulaanbaatar (Mongolia) – best way to use my Avios as no more Beijing

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Yes, sorry I had wrongly assumed there would be flights from Shanghai. Unfortunately, a southern gateway like HK leaves you a long and potentially expensive trip as Ulaanbaatar has relatively few flights, most of which are from more northerly Asian cities. Yes, CV is companion voucher, QR is Qatar Airways and AY is Finnair – you can use Avios on both, but not the CV. QR is very good and AY offers good connectivity to Asia and a decent business class product but the current inability to fly over Russia makes routings much longer than hitherto.