The article yesterday was more about the fl 4,800m restriction (the wall) which, given the fact that departing flights are kept to 9,000 ft by tango delta, sometimes they have to do extra track miles to make the fl 4,800 meter minimum by bekol. given that this situation has been in existance for so long, i was curious as to why it burst out onto the front page of the SCMP yesterday. the 15 minutes the articlenwas referring to was not an ATCO delay but the time it takes to do the extra track miles to able 4,800m by bekol. that was the exaggeration i thought. but obviously there are a million other issues regarding flying into chinese airspace
