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  • Shenzhen Airport adds six long haul flights in a bid to win back traffic from Hong Kong | CAPA - Centre for Aviation

    http://centreforaviation.com/analysis/shenzhen-airport-adds-six-long-haul-flights-in-a-bid-to-win-back-

    signalé par Pierre Ageron sur Twitter

    Limited long haul flights effectively operating as charters (such as to Mauritius) have been a feature at Shenzhen. The airport’s first regular long haul route only started in Jan-2016, with a China Southern service to Sydney. Shenzhen’s absence from long haul has been conspicuous: its GDP is one of the highest in China and companies have significant intercontinental business, all of this a mixture for long haul demand.

    The neighbouring city Guangzhou is the hub for China Southern, and while it does not have the long haul proliferation of Beijing or Shanghai, it has had services to key cities. Guangzhou’s presence and that of closer Hong Kong have created alternative points for passengers reaching to Shenzhen. It has not helped that local airline Shenzhen Airlines has had stunted short haul international development and has not acquired widebody aircraft, despite airlines smaller than it flying widebodies and going long haul.

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