Well, there have been lots of flight delays and some cancellations in and out of Eastern part of China including Shanghai, Xiamen, Hong Kong. The delays can last up to 8 hours. The reason is that the Chinese Military is doing it's exercises. There is no advance warning. It does whatever it feels like it. Yesterday, there were over 5000 passengers sitting at Shanghai airport. Our flights on Monday was delayed as well due to the exercise. Of course, there is no explanation.
There is only one route in and out of Eastern China. Negotiation on opening up another route has gone nowhere. This type of delay will be more and more.
On another note, the China air traffic control has lowered the vertical safety distance between aircraft from 2000 ft to 1000 ft in order to accommodate more flights. These guys are the same who decided on the Three Gorge dam?
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