Re: Coronavirus Aviation Related News & Discussion Thread - March 2020 - Part II

The 2nd Chinese medical supporting team will go to Italy taking MU7041 (777-300ER) from Shanghai(PVG) to Milan(MXP) today. The 2nd medical team consists of 12 members and will take 9 tons of medical supplies to Milan. The 2nd medical team comes from Zhejiang Province, where most of chinese immigrant...

Re: SZX expansion: new T1, HSR station and 3rd Runway

Toinou wrote:

On the blueprint, which station is the HSR one? Pink or light blue?

SZX expansion: new T1, HSR station and 3rd Runway

Shenzhen airport (SZX) is experiencing a new round of expansion these days. After the approval of the 3rd runway, a plan of new T1 and HSR station has been revealed this week. According to the news thread, current terminal A and B will be demolished and a new terminal will be built (named T1). At th...

Re: Beijing new airport thread (construction developments & discussions)

Is there a particular reason that a crosswind runway (11L/29R) was constructed instead of a fourth parallel? PEK doesn't seem to have a crosswind issue with its parallel runways. The main reason is to aviod airspace conflicts with PEK, especially those heading to southeast. Crosswind is not a big i...

Re: PKX assigned officially as IATA code for Beijing Daxing International Airport

I'm not aware of any two-airport city with an easy public transportation method to move between the two airports. I'd argue Tokyo is there, with same-train, terminal-to-terminal service between Narita and Haneda every 40 minutes or so. And at an average speed of 55 km/h, quite fast for a non-airpor...

Re: PKX assigned officially as IATA code for Beijing Daxing International Airport

Is there good public transportation in place or planned between PEK and PKX? I'm planning a trip to China in October probably flying BA and although the flight shows as being to PEK, I'm wondering when or whether BA would switch to PKX? There will be an airport express train connecting PKX and the ...

Re: PKX assigned officially as IATA code for Beijing Daxing International Airport

https://youtu.be/AI58h98ZNRI Video of the 4 landings. I've spent plenty of time spotting in the ME, but that has to be the dustiest airport I've ever seen! :shock: South part of Beijing is generally more dusty than north part because of the wind direction (basically northwest in most of the dusty d...

Re: PKX assigned officially as IATA code for Beijing Daxing International Airport

Is there good public transportation in place or planned between PEK and PKX? I'm planning a trip to China in October probably flying BA and although the flight shows as being to PEK, I'm wondering when or whether BA would switch to PKX? There will be an airport express train connecting PKX and the ...

Re: CAAC granting lots of flight rights

I'm surprised WNZ/Wenzhou and YIW/Yiwu don't get any love from international airlines, especially African and Arab carriers. Is it because they're easily accessible via high-speed rail? For Yiwu, it's tightly connected with Shanghai or Hangzhou via high speed train (around 2 hours). For Wenzhou, it...

Re: Helsinki in vogue: Tibet Airlines to fly to HEL from Lhasa via Jinan in April, followed by CZ/HO from CAN/PVG later

Impressive that TV really made it... But it's really a waste of resource that they only use these 333 in short domestic flights before.

Re: Routes in the works for forthcoming Beijing Daxing/PKX

The one part i'm looking to see is how many people will actually use PKX domestically. I guess it's more convenient for people in the south part of the city, but that's also a less wealthy part. It's not really convenient anyone in the north and east part of the city. Definitely correct, the 3 majo...

Re: PKI assigned officially as IATA code for Beijing Daxing International Airport

It is always ironic to me that the code PEK is still used. One, there's a monolith of a bureaucracy even the People's Republic is impressed with, and two, the continued use of the name "Peking", at least as far as the airport goes. It is my understanding that the city of Peking was rename...

HU Apply For PEK-LAS Started Next Sep.

Hainan Airlines apply for <acronym title="Beijing - Capital (PEK / ZBAA), China">PEK</acronym>-<acronym title="Las Vegas - McCarran International (LAS / KLAS), USA - Nevada">LAS</acronym> traffic rights today. They apply to start this route from next Sep. with 3xweekly using 787. This will be the 5t...

Hainan To Start PEK-MAN On Jun. 10 2016

Annouced by Hainan airline CEO, who is visiting UK with president Xi. <acronym title="Hainan Airlines (China)">HU</acronym> will start <acronym title="Beijing - Capital (PEK / ZBAA), China">PEK</acronym>-<acronym title="Manchester - International (Ringway) (MAN / EGCC), United Kingdom AND Nampa - Mu...

Air China Announced 2015 New International Routes

Recently, Air China announced its 2015 new international routes: From Beijing (Long-haul): CA165/6 Beijing-Melbourne, start from 6-1, A330, 1/3/5/7 CA867/8 Beijing-Johannesburg, start from 6-19, B773, 1/3/5 CA879/80 Beijing-Montreal-Havana, start from 9-20, B773, 1/3/5 CA739/40 Beijing-Auckland, sta...

RE: China Approves Second Beijing Airport

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/N14AZ" class="quote" target="_blank">N14AZ</a> (<a href="#25" class="quote">Reply 25</a>):<br/><i> It's even common practice that farmers will b...

Official:AA Start DFW-PVG On Jun. 12

AA announced on Feb. 12 that they will officially start <acronym title="Dallas / Fort Worth - International (DFW / KDFW), USA - Texas">DFW</acronym>-<acronym title="Shanghai - Pudong International (PVG / ZSPD), China">PVG</acronym> from Jun.12 2014. The flight will be daily on 777-200. The flight is...

RE: China's Spring Festival Peak Time For Airlines

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/lightsaber" class="quote" target="_blank">lightsaber</a> (<a href="#1" class="quote">Reply 1</a>):<br/><i>Very interesting. What is the impact o...

China's Spring Festival Peak Time For Airlines

Hi A-netters, now is the peak time of China's Spring Festival travel season. It's a tradition that eveyone will go back to their hometown and gather together with their families so it's a huge load for a transportation means. There are some phenominal air routes these days which is incredibly busy. ...

CA To Open PEK-IAD, PEK-VIE-BCN, PVG-MUC

According to the microblog of Air China North China Marketing Center, <acronym title="Air China">CA</acronym> will open the following interntaional routes: <acronym title="Beijing - Capital (PEK / ZBAA), China">PEK</acronym>-<acronym title="Washington - Dulles International (IAD / KIAD), USA - Virgi...

HU Applied For PEK-EWR!

According to the website of CAAC, <acronym title="Hainan Airlines (China)">HU</acronym> applied for <acronym title="Beijing - Capital (PEK / ZBAA), China">PEK</acronym>-<acronym title="Newark - Liberty International (EWR / KEWR), USA - New Jersey">EWR</acronym> and <acronym title="Beijing - Capital ...

RE: Air China To Increase Services To IAH And JFK

PEK-MXP will be also increased to 5xweekly by 332.

BA LHR-CTU Started Sep.23 On Panda Special Livery

The <acronym title="British Airways">BA</acronym> 88/89 flight started on Sep. 23. It is a new milestone for <acronym title="Chengdu (- Shuangliu) (CTU / ZUUU), China">CTU</acronym>, making <acronym title="Chengdu (- Shuangliu) (CTU / ZUUU), China">CTU</acronym>'s 3rd European route after <acronym t...

RE: China Considers Deregulating International Routes

It's really a complex problem. Firstly, the one route, one airline policy is only applied to long-haul international routes. For regional international routes, such as China-Korea or China-Japan, there is no such kind of policy. Secondly, the one route, one airline policy is only applied to airlines...

RE: Chengu Is Just The "start For UA"

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/jcwr56" class="quote" target="_blank">jcwr56</a> (<a href="#2" class="quote">Reply 2</a>):<br/><i>Are they high tech based, manafacturing based ...

New UA TransPac Route - SFO-CTU

It's <acronym title="Chengdu (- Shuangliu) (CTU / ZUUU), China">CTU</acronym>...Actually <acronym title="Chengdu (- Shuangliu) (CTU / ZUUU), China">CTU</acronym> has a surprsingly large Silicon Valley company base. For example, Intel has one of the largest chip factory in Chengdu. So I hope this rou...

CA To Start PEK-HNL 3xweekly On Oct

According to the website of CAAC, Air China is applying for <acronym title="Beijing - Capital (PEK / ZBAA), China">PEK</acronym>-<acronym title="Honolulu - International / Pearl Harbor-Hickam JB (Hickam AFB) (HNL / HIK / PHNL / PHIK), USA - Hawaii">HNL</acronym> 3xweekly by 330 and want to open the ...

New UAE-China Bilateral Aggrement Adds Yinchuan?!

According to China Daily, the govenment announced the new UAE-China bilateral aggrement, surprsingly, Yinchuan was added. <acronym title="Emirates (United Arab Emirates)">EK</acronym> has granted 3rd, 4th and 5th freedom in Yinchuan Airport (INC). And rurmor said <acronym title="Emirates (United Ara...

RE: CA Starts IAH Service Tomorrow

It will be "Smiling China" special livery.

New 787 Route: CZ CAN-AKL Start From 12-4

According to the Chinese Twitter of China Southern Airlines, they will start to put their 787 on international routes. The first one will be <acronym title="CURRENT: Guangzhou - Baiyun (CAN / ZGGG), China AND OLD: Guangzhou - Baiyun (CAN / ZGGG) (closed), China">CAN</acronym>-<acronym title="Aucklan...

RE: OZ 777 Crash At SFO Part 5

According to Korean media, the FO who was taking control of the aircraft only had 32 hours of experience on 777, what's worse, he had nearly 10000 hours on 737...

[Edited 2013-07-07 18:21:59]

OZ 777 Crash At SFO Part 3

Did anyone notice that 141 passengers onboard are Chinese citizens? What a transfer...

RE: AC To Announce YYC-PEK With 787?

What? It sounds ridiculous to me...what kind of traffic flow will YYC-PEK have? Petroleum industry?

RE: China Southern Special Livery 787 Arrived At Can!

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/davidho1985" class="quote" target="_blank">davidho1985</a> (<a href="#24" class="quote">Reply 24</a>):<br/><i>But when it happens on the inaugur...

RE: Emirates Announces A380 To ZRH

Finally EK will send 380 to every city in the Europe  

RE: China Southern Special Livery 787 Arrived At Can!

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/CX+Flyboy" class="quote" target="_blank">CX Flyboy</a> (<a href="#16" class="quote">Reply 16</a>):<br/><i>Just heard the first flight scheduled ...

RE: China Southern Special Livery 787 Arrived At Can!

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/smi0006" class="quote" target="_blank">smi0006</a> (<a href="#4" class="quote">Reply 4</a>):<br/><i>What is the onboard product like? </i></font...

RE: China Southern Special Livery 787 Arrived At Can!

Where are the replies ...???

China Southern Special Livery 787 Arrived At CAN!

On Jun. 2th, China Southern's first 787 arrived at Guangzhou Baiyun Airport. This one is painted with <acronym title="China Southern Airlines">CZ</acronym>'s special livery for 787. It's first commercial flight will be <acronym title="CURRENT: Guangzhou - Baiyun (CAN / ZGGG), China AND OLD: Guangzho...

RE: Hainan Airlines' 787 To North America?

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/surfandsnow" class="quote" target="_blank">surfandsnow</a> (<a href="#2" class="quote">Reply 2</a>):<br/><i>I stumbled across it looking for ins...

RE: Fly On Roof Of The World:Tibet Airlines Ali-Lhasa!

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/rogerbcn" class="quote" target="_blank">rogerbcn</a> (<a href="#5" class="quote">Reply 5</a>):<br/><i>I really liked the uniform of the <acronym...

RE: Fly On Roof Of The World:Tibet Airlines Ali-Lhasa!

Thank you A-netters, I am very glad you guys like it  <img src="http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/graphics/smilies/smile.gif" width="15" height="15" border="0"/><table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9...

Fly On Roof Of The World:Tibet Airlines Ali-Lhasa!

Hello A-netters! This is actually not my trip report. A friend of mine, Jeffrey Xu posted his flight report in Tibet on CARNOC and I was shocked by the beauty of Tibet! I also find it very rare in A-net so I asked him whether I can repost it here. He agreed and let's enjoy! The trip is from Ali Kuns...

First Flight Of CA's Chengdu-FRA On May 19

On May 19th, Air China started its first European route out of Chengdu International Airport (<acronym title="Chengdu (- Shuangliu) (CTU / ZUUU), China">CTU</acronym>). Flight <acronym title="Air China">CA</acronym> 431 left <acronym title="Chengdu (- Shuangliu) (CTU / ZUUU), China">CTU</acronym> at...

RE: Air China´s Extremely Outdated Livery

Due to some political reasons (<acronym title="Prescott - Ernest A Love Field (Municipal) (PRC / KPRC), USA - Arizona">PRC</acronym> flag can't be shown on flights to <acronym title="Rochester - Greater Rochester International (Monroe County) (ROC / KROC), USA - New York">ROC</acronym>.), Air China ...

RE: Air&Rail In China: High-speed Train+CA 77W To PEK!

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/palmjet" class="quote" target="_blank">palmjet</a> (<a href="#8" class="quote">Reply 8</a>):<br/><i>Great report - thanks for posting this. Nice...

RE: Hong Kong Express To Be Relaunched As LCC

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/cloudyapple" class="quote" target="_blank">cloudyapple</a> (<a href="#12" class="quote">Reply 12</a>):<br/><i>45%. Else the airline would have b...

RE: China Eastern Customer Service Boss Goes Nuts

Yes, definitely, it happens a lot in China. The policemen will basically do nothing...No one is afraid of them actually because once passengers get the media attention, the policemen will face huge pressures. Whatever, we got angry passengers and we also get angry ground service guys. Once in Kunmin...

Jetstar HK Got Delayed Again By CX's Lobbying

According to Yahoo Hong Kong, an insider said <acronym title="Cathay Pacific (China-Hong Kong)">CX</acronym> is lobbying Hong Kong government to stop issuing license for Jetstar <acronym title="Four Star Aviation (US Virgin Is.)">HK</acronym>. On Article 134 of Hong Kong Basic Law, it says, Hong Kon...

RE: Hourly 772's And 773's HND-FUK On JAL

Big Asian Metropolitan areas have huge P-to-P demand. No.1 Seoul-Jeju The demand is huge, 9.9 million passengers per year! Considering Jeju only has a population of less than half million, it's ... unbelievable! More than 100 departures today, including 10x 744 of <acronym title="Korean Air">KE</acr...