Midnight flights may resume
( 2003-09-05 10:05) (Shenzhen Daily)
MIDNIGHT flights on the
Chinese mainland might resume before the National Day holiday, the Chengdu based
Huaxi Metropolitan News reported Thursday, quoting a senior official of the
Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC).
The capital airport in Beijing had applied to the CAAC for round-the-clock
operations, said the paper. If the application was approved, other airports on
the Chinese mainland might follow suit.
The CAAC now forbids planes from landing and taking off after midnight and
before dawn. The midnight flights were canceled because of possible danger.
The paper expected the midnight flights, dubbed “red eye flights” because
pilots for the flights work with eyes bloodshot from lack of sleep, would
reappear before the coming National Day holiday.
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