I am a United States citizen and will be making a trip to Mongolia with my Phillippines citizen friend. We are both living and working in Hong Kong and have Hong Kong work visas. We are flying into Beijing airport on Air China but will take MIAT (mongolian airliner) into and out of Mongolia. We will be transiting in Beijing for around 4 hours.
I have two inquiries: 1) do we need to apply for double entry transit visas for china? I am aware that you don't need a visa if you are at the airport for less than 24 hours, are passing through china, but you have to be on an "international" airliner -- does MIAT airlines count as an international airline?
2) if we do in fact need to apply for a transit visa, i've noticed that one of the requirements is a visa of the final destination country. however, according to visa laws for US and Philippines citizens to Mongolia, we do not need visas for Mongolia as we will be there for shorter than 14 days. So we do not have a visa for Mongolia as visas are not required for us. Or does "final destination" refer to our "home" destination, that is, Hong Kong, of which we both have work visas? Thanks for your help!