China Opens Enhanced East-West Route To Increase Airspace Capacity

Kunming Changshui International Airport

The H24 parallel airway is expected to increase air traffic between western China's Kunming Changshui International Airport (above) and the Yangtze River Delta airport cluster in the east.

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SINGAPORE—The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) on Sept. 5 operationalized the parallel H24 airway to drive air traffic between the Yangtze River Delta airport cluster in the east and the Kunming Changshui International Airport hub in the west. Previously a single-lane airway, H24—which...
Chen Chuanren

Chen Chuanren is the Southeast Asia and China Editor for the Aviation Week Network’s (AWN) Air Transport World (ATW) and the Asia-Pacific Defense Correspondent for AWN, joining the team in 2017.

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