Stij wrote:Chinese are funny people. (I'm not kidding you!)
Not at all... and Chinese from Singapore are the less funniest!, believe me.
The Chinese can use that aircraft on a more fruitful route.
If I read well BRU-PEK vv is maintained.
PEK-SHA in B767 is scrapped end of the month (as was probably foreseen in the plan, if the loadfactor was to be below expectations).
That does not mean one cannot fly PEK-SHA with HU!
Until then, end of AUG, the skeds were:
Hainan Airlines
HU 492 BRU 20:40 PVG 16:35+1 day 1 stop 767 Flttime 13h55min Tuesday - Thursday - Saturday - Sunday
or
HU 492 BRU 20:40 PEK 12:50+1 day Non-stop767 Flttime 10h10min Tuesday - Thursday - Saturday - Sunday
plus
HU 492 PEK 14:50 PVG 16:35 Non-stop767 Flttime 1h45min Monday - Friday - Sunday Not flying the Friday, August 25, 2006
and 10 minutes later:
HU 7601 PEK 15:00 SHA 16:50 Non-stop733 Flttime 1h50min Daily
So it will become almost a change of gauge (But we saw that already longtime ago. The clever Chinese kept open two solutions: aB733 and the B767. Not funny, clever...