Originally Posted by
travelinmanS
It seems China is slow walking the introduction of more international flights. MU flies PVG-SIN once a week! Ridiculous. Not sure if it’s a resources issue or intentionally hindering the complete opening up, but it makes international business travel a real pain for someone living on the mainland like myself.
I saw an interview transcript from one of China Eastern's operations people last month. The gist of it was that their base airports are all capacity constrained (mostly staffing related), so they are forced to pick and choose which flights to add and when. I'm guessing the trunk routes are substantially more profitable than SE Asia.