Originally Posted by
Xiaotung
It's the same with their PVG route. The plane gets towed away from the gate after it has arrived and towed back before the flight back to AKL. The plane spends more than 7 hours in Shanghai. Wouldn't have PEK been a tag on much better? They would have achieved daily into PVG long ago but of course unless this was a slot issue.
I'd like to be wrong, but I have never heard of foreign airlines operating domestic China routes or doing another tag on? Local carriers do a lot of that hopping between few major cities before flying international ports... I am not an expert on 5th or whatever rights.. but I do not think it is a feasible option and the slots at PEK is so over subscribed so NZ has worked with CA for pax going to PEK.