CHINA AVIATION AUTHORITIES SEEK FOREIGN HELP AS MILITARY YIELDS AIRSPACE POWER
May 10th, 2014
CHINA’S aviation authorities are increasingly seeking overseas assistance in their efforts to improve airspace management and resolve chronic congestion at the country’s busiest airports.China’s major airports hold the unenviable record of being the world’s worst hubs for delays, largely because tight military control of up to 80% of its high altitude airspace severely limits the available take-off and landing corridors. The situation is compounded by a lack of advanced navigational procedures at airports and flow management criteria regulating traffic ...
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