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Old Apr 24, 2017 | 1:04 pm
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Originally Posted by Kevin Liu
The reason CI bought A300 at the first place was for the traffic right to CDG.
After Taiwan has the traffic right, CAA award the route to BR instead of CI while CI still need to pay for the planes....
Huh? I think you are very confused about something. CI purchased A300 in the 1970s. The first one was delivered in 1982 as I recall. BR didn't even exist.

CI evaluated A300 and 767 and went with A300 because it can hold more cargo, which was an important part of CI's business in intra-Asia flying.

When BR came to exist, CAA awarded whatever left over rights that CI didn't want and that's how BR got CDG - because CI didn't want to use it.
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