-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Is this another KL? i.e we've built this airport at great expense at the height of the boom and now no one wants to use it, so let's make it look like they do by shutting the convenient downtown airport and making everyone drive an hour out of town for a 45 minute flight? Seems like a familiar story. David On Tuesday 29 Oct 2002 9:17 am, davidm@smail.info wrote: > Hello from bizjournals.com! David Mueller (davidm@smail.info) thought you > might like the following article from Pacific Business News: > > > Shanghai routes foreign flights to new airport > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > If you fly to Shanghai on business, the Chinese government just > lengthened your commute. > > Aviation authorities in China's largest city have decided to route all > international flights, including the relatively short hops from Hong > Kong and Macau, through the new Pudong International Airport, an hour > outside of town. > > The old Hongqiao airport in the Shanghai city center is now reserved for > domestic flights only. > > The new policy took effect Sunday, Chinaonline reported. > > > > Copyright(c) American City Business Journals Inc. All rights reserved. > > You can view this article on the web at: > http://pacific.bizjournals.com/pacific/stories/2002/10/28/daily5.html -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9vtl1KsvwCXwmAPgRAiQ6AJ9gdpi8nJ6UCwSNhu55t6dzK/UwWQCfeAvs dHsIZd/0KKBOCBKqvQiPvKw= =mDVd -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----