How this site makes money

This site earns money from affiliate links. When you click a booking button here and go on to book, the company you book with pays us a commission. You pay the same price you would have paid going to them directly — the commission comes out of their margin, not out of your fare.

That’s the whole arrangement. The rest of this page is what it does and doesn’t change, because a disclosure that only says “we may earn a commission” tells you nothing useful.

What you pay

Nothing extra. Affiliate links don’t raise the price, and they don’t lock you into a worse rate than the one on the company’s own site. If you’d rather not use them, go to the company’s own site directly and book there; the price will be the same.

Where the buttons are, and where they are not

Booking buttons appear on the pages where you’re choosing something to book: transfers to a specific destination, hotel zones, and connectivity like eSIM.

Most of the reference material carries none. The arrivals and departures boards have no booking buttons at all, and that’s deliberate rather than an oversight — a live flight board with a sales widget on it is a worse flight board, and this one exists to be checked rather than to sell. Driving in China carries no rental button either, for the same honesty reason: the page exists to explain that renting almost certainly won’t work, and selling a rental underneath that explanation would contradict it.

Where a page does carry buttons, they’re placed after the answer, not before it.

What the commission does not decide

It does not decide the facts. Every price on this site comes from one data file that lists what each option actually costs, and the pages read from it. A route that hasn’t been priced yet says so plainly rather than guessing, and it earns nothing either way until it has been.

It does not decide the advice. The verdict on a page is written before the booking block goes on it, and several pages here say plainly that a service isn’t worth it — that a route is better covered by public transport, or that a document requirement makes a booking impractical for most visitors.

It does not decide who appears. We don’t name booking companies in the text of the pages, and the set of buttons is generated rather than hand-picked per page. That’s partly an editorial rule and partly a practical one: the companies change more often than the text does.

It does not buy coverage. Nobody has paid to be written about here, and sponsored placement isn’t something this site sells.

Every affiliate link on the site is marked in its code as a paid link — rel="sponsored nofollow" — which is the machine-readable half of this page.

What it does change, honestly

Money follows attention, and attention follows what people search for. The pages about the routes and destinations that earn are the ones that get written first and updated most. A background reference page gets less of both.

That’s a real bias in how effort is allocated, and it’s worth knowing about. It isn’t a bias in what any individual page says.

Advertising

The site carries no display advertising at present. If that changes, this page changes with it — and advertising, unlike affiliate links, would be visible as advertising rather than as a recommendation.

The facts themselves

Prices, distances and legal facts shown here are collected from operators, government sources and published records, and the ones that haven’t been checked and verified are marked as such rather than presented as confirmed. They’re a guide to what things cost and how rules work, not a quotation or legal advice. What you’re charged at a counter or told at a border on the day is set by that company or authority, not by us.

If you find a fact here that no longer matches reality, that’s worth an email — corrections of that kind are the most useful thing anyone sends us. hello@guangzhou-can-airport.com

Independence

This site is not connected with Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport, with Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport Company Limited, or with any government or official body. It’s an independent guide, and nothing on it is an official tariff, an official timetable or an official notice.