Timetable From United Kingdom, joined Feb 2005, 217 posts, RR: 0 Posted (7 years 1 month 4 days 23 hours ago) and read 1792 times:
Hi, When I visited CAN (Guangzhou) in March, I noticed 2 airlines there who I would not expect to see there at all. These 2 airlines are Ethiopean Airlines ( 767 ET-ALL) and Kenya Airways (767, 5Y-KQZ). Does anybody know why they fly there when I would of thought SIN, HKG, NRT and BKK are more important Far East destinations. Saying that I very impressed with CAN's New airport. From Timetable.
Dkny From Ethiopia, joined Mar 2004, 694 posts, RR: 2 Reply 2, posted (7 years 1 month 4 days 22 hours ago) and read 1744 times:
Lots of Merchants from all over Africa go to CAN. I know ET flights are always full to Asia. Both ET and KQ serve CAN, HKG and BKK. ET also serves PEK.
Ethiopian787 From Ethiopia, joined Jan 2006, 52 posts, RR: 1 Reply 3, posted (7 years 1 month 4 days 20 hours ago) and read 1665 times:
Quoting Dkny (Reply 2): Lots of Merchants from all over Africa go to CAN. I know ET flights are always full to Asia. Both ET and KQ serve CAN, HKG and BKK. ET also serves PEK.
I have been on one last June and the 763 was full. You can fairly say that its one of their trunk route. ET has also traffic right between BKK and CAN and I rememebr counting more that 20 paxs embarking and disembarking to/from these points. Almost all passengers are West African traders and I hear that ET gets a lot of money from excess baggage.
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ETStar From Canada, joined Jan 2004, 2103 posts, RR: 9 Reply 4, posted (7 years 1 month 4 days 15 hours ago) and read 1531 times:
ET originally started serving Hong Kong, and it was obvious that merchants were not stopping there, as they were hopping on a train bound for Guangzhou. Enter Guangzhou, now served 4x per week, while HKG is served 3x per week.
Gte439u From Canada, joined Nov 2003, 359 posts, RR: 2 Reply 6, posted (7 years 1 month 4 days 14 hours ago) and read 1492 times:
Keep in mind that China is already a large and still growing investor in African natural resources. Given that CAN has connections from all over Chine and East Asia, it is a natural gateway destination even though it does not receive the attention that Beijing of Shanghai receive.
ETStar From Canada, joined Jan 2004, 2103 posts, RR: 9 Reply 7, posted (7 years 1 month 4 days 12 hours ago) and read 1457 times:
Quoting Gte439u (Reply 6): Keep in mind that China is already a large and still growing investor in African natural resources. Given that CAN has connections from all over Chine and East Asia, it is a natural gateway destination even though it does not receive the attention that Beijing of Shanghai receive.
True, but CAN is really where manufacturing is, and is what is driving African merchants to that city. Policy making, of course, is at Beijing.
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