It’s incredible to see the pace at which Chinese airlines are adding flights to Los Angeles. This is probably largely due to China’s policy of only allowing one Chinese airline to operate each longhaul route. The effect of this is that airlines want to beat one another to markets where they see potential, even if…
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Some airline needs to start sprouting out of Kunming. They have a ton of market potential to get between Europe and Australia/New Zealand, The US and Southeast Asia, and they can also start a trend of transcontinental flights within China (between Kunming and Shanghai/Beijing). Kunming is a pretty big market as it covers all of southwest China, and is really close to Guangzhou as well. Plus, the airport is massive.
I'd like to see an airline operate Kunming to Los Angeles.
Wow, Qingdao airport is growing pretty quickly right now. There are already nonstops to Melbourne and Vancouver on Beijing Capital Airlines and China Eastern flies to San Francisco. With the addition of this new flight, there will be THREE flights from Qingdao to North America. Beijing Capital Airlines also has plans to launch flights from Qingdao to Sydney and Moscow Domodedovo.
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@Jim. The flight to Wuhan, SFO - WUH - CAN is actually operated with a four-class 777-300ER right now.
China’s policy of only allowing one Chinese airline to operate each longhaul route.
It's wrong.
Take MU553, CA833 and MU569 for example, today they both fly from Shanghai PVG to Paris CDG.
Take MU219 and CA935 for example, today they both fly from Shanghai PVG to Frankfurt FRA.
Stop making such stupid mistake, dear~
You can say, China’s policy of only allowing one Chinese airline to operate each Sino-US route.
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did u figure out a pattern there? Air China out of Shanghai
I suspect these are the only two routes that you will be able to find exceptions to the one Chinese carrier rule
@Alvin, unfortunately, Kunming Airport is probably the worst I'm used among all large airports in China, in terms of management. It takes a long time to transit and staff does not seem to be helpful. I wouldn't recommend it for transit.
@Alvin: Kunming is an MU hub so maybe MU will start some long haul out of Kunming.