By my count, I have flown in and out of Beijing Capitol Airport at least twenty times over the last five years. And out of all of those trips, not one has ever been on-time, either in or out. Not one. Not even close. Until today. I was on China Eastern flight 5107, departing Shanghai…
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Cold War, Over.
Last week I had the odd privilege of having dinner inside the bowels of the Binhai Aircraft Carrier Theme Park outside of Tianjin. There are several online sources of information for this man-made wonder (though not nearly as many as I expected), so I’ll keep this brief. Construction of the Kiev, a Soviet aircraft carrier,…
Northwest’s passage to China
From a purely selfish point of view, I think the best news to come out of Wu Yi’s visit to Washington was a deal to add 13 more daily flights to China by US carriers by 2012. Currently, there are only 10 routes per day, and so the competition for new ones is always ferocious.…