China Travel Forum

[philipines]

hi. everybody
i'm from the philippines.
i will be traveling with 3 other friends to china next year in january.
we'll arrive around 1 am of january 11 in shanghai and we plan to go to beijing the same day, late afternoon (the 4 pm flight preferably).
i've been looking at the air china, ctrip and elong websites to look for domestic flights (shanghai-beijing-shanghai).
booking directly with air china is hopeless because we were informed by their customer support that booking from the philippines can only be made through a travel agent.
so we're banking on ctrip and elong.
we were however advised that it's better to wait until we arrive in shanghai and buy tickets when we get there because it's cheaper and there will always be available flights.
i'm just paranoid however that we might not be able to get tickets.i feel more secure if i get them ahead of time.

any advice on how to get our domestic tickets will be very much appreciated.
also if you have any feedback using elong and ctrip and which is better and more user-friendly.

thanks!