Why Travelers Face Endless Delay in China's Airports

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Simon Rabinovitch, China's Frequent Fliers Have a Hard Time Taking off. Financial Times, May 2, 2012.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/91078f ... .html#axzz1tkU5yNmq

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Gleaming airports. Modern fleets. "But the most basic need of any air traveller--to get from point A to point B on time--has suffered.

China's on-time statistics, unlike that of other nations, "only measures when aircraft close their doors, not when they take off, so the true number of on-time flights is lower still.

"The civil aviation authority [of China] last year blamed 41 per cent of delays on airlines themselves, with problems ranging from poor fleet co-ordination to inexperienced flight crews.

My comment: Naturally "civil aviation authority" wants to blame airlines. It is always other people's faults.