STPs comments may be coloured by the fact that if you want to go from HK to Beijing he cheapest way is to take the HK$140 ferry from HK to Shenzhen International and fly from there on a ticket which is half the price of going direct.
If Type 1 deicing is so dangerous why do DragonAir accept it?
I fly in China. Not with an airline but I have Chinese engineers, ATC and I train Chinese plots to operate to within very tight parameters. There are difficulties and they are proud people so communicating with them when they make a mistake is a gift one has to have. There are still the old dogs who have no idea about CRM and still think they are the God, but they are a dying race. Now I have co-pilots with not a lot of experience asking me to justify a decision that I have made, not because they disagree with it but to put in their memory banks in case it happens again.
Aviation accidents in China are no worse than the developed world. Some may argue that in a totalitarian state they can hide the bad news.
There are 375,000,000 active mobile telephones in China. If an aircraft spashes in Manchuria they will be discussing it in Shenzhen Starbucks within the hour.
Last edited by Fareastdriver; 24th February 2008 at 00:02.