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Nov 20, 2017 (newstodate): Two Chinese airlines may be competing for rights to launch scheduled flights to Denmark's Copenhagen Airport from 2018.
As earlier reported, Beijing Capital Airlines is planning for a return of services to Denmark with the first flight on March 27, 2018, planning for three weekly rotations using Airbus A330-200 aircraft.
In the meantime, Air China is now also known to have filed an application with CAAC on November 16, 2017, for similar flights planning for five weekly rotations from March 2018, also using A330-200 aircraft.
According to the existing air services agreement between Denmark and China, only one carrier may however be designated from each side, and it thus remains to be seen which of the two Chinese carrier will eventually win the rights - and if any of them will actually exercise them.
Air China earlier operated flights on the route between Beijing and Copenhagen but pulled out again from 2001, leaving SAS alone in offering daily flights between the two destinations.
As earlier reported, Beijing Capital Airlines is planning for a return of services to Denmark with the first flight on March 27, 2018, planning for three weekly rotations using Airbus A330-200 aircraft.
In the meantime, Air China is now also known to have filed an application with CAAC on November 16, 2017, for similar flights planning for five weekly rotations from March 2018, also using A330-200 aircraft.
According to the existing air services agreement between Denmark and China, only one carrier may however be designated from each side, and it thus remains to be seen which of the two Chinese carrier will eventually win the rights - and if any of them will actually exercise them.
Air China earlier operated flights on the route between Beijing and Copenhagen but pulled out again from 2001, leaving SAS alone in offering daily flights between the two destinations.