Originally Posted by
henrus
Seems like a bit of a joke... Sure I don't run an airline but you'd think that the checklist would include "Plane allowed to land at destination".
Any other country that would work. But this China. Border process are weird, know a lot of exporters who have issues, because suddenly the paperwork which was fine is no longer fine, need to reapply or have a local on the ground grease the wheel. The shipment that arrives the next week will arrive fine as a different person is in the office that day for the office. Or a space instead of a - is used in the paperwork. Chinese border officials prefer accuracy and don't look for what was actually meant.
E.g. the approval may have been for ZK-NZQ but the flight plan had ZKNZQ. ZKNZQ in their system doesn't exisit so therefore a no go.
Though looking back through FR24 this may have been the first AIrNZ plane with Trent1000 TENS to PVG? May be a late swap and over looked?