Originally Posted by
Totoro
You can thank the Communist regime in PRC (mainland China) for bringing convenience to your travels. Unsatisfied with merely oppressing their own citizens, the PRC makes a hobby of bullying Taiwan, Taiwanese businesses (BR is case in point) and Taiwanese citizens.
In a nutshell, the PRC will not allow BR to transit their airspace for polar routings. That creates the need for ANC technical stop and extra CO2 emissions, not that the PRC cares at all about environmental issues.
Sounds like a reasonable explanation however don't the articles in post # 9 indicate that the airspace is or was opened to Taiwan? Perhaps its just that BR chooses not to use China's airspace?
Last edited by Russell745; Jun 5, 2009 at 1:09 am
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