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You mean they stop flying in China because of the winter weather? Air Asia apparently cancelled their December and January schedules to Tianjin because of it.
It’s crazy. They stop flight here at our school if it rains or if even the slightest wind starts up. Our aircraft are small Cessna 172s and DA-42s, which are perfectly capable of flying in rain and wind, but everyone (management/operations staff) is scared to death “something” could happen. Plus we get shut down a lot whenever the military is scheduled to be flying in our area, even though they fly at altitudes impossible for our airplanes to reach. As far as commercial flights go, however, they usually only cancel for severe weather or low visibility situations, the same as in most other countries. I hadn’t heard about Air Asia canceling schedules to Tianjin, but after some of the things I have seen here in general aviation, I wouldn’t be a bit surprised.
Just curious – are you involved in aviation in China?
Air Asia has resumed Tianjin services. They cancelled during December and early January and the reason they gave was the weather. But I think it’s more to do with low load factors (not filling their airplanes up with passengers) being the true reason. Just imagine, if word gets around that their pilots are afraid to fly in marginal weather, then it’s going to affect them commercially in the future when they start flying to Europe.
I answer to your question, I am involved in Aviation, but not in China. Nice blog you got going here. I really enjoy reading it, especially your travels to politically sensitive areas of China, like Tibet and Xinjiang. Have you been to other so called ‘Autonomous’ regions of China? There are 4 aren’t there? Inner Mongolia and one other in the south, whose name escapes me.