Airline Choice

[pakman]

Sorry Scubaboard officially doesn't recognize the sovereignty of the Republic of China and so we will continue to refer to it as Taiwan or Formosa...


JUST KIDDING hdlee!!!

 

[shugar]

Sorry Scubaboard officially doesn't recognize the sovreignty of the Republic of China and so we will continue to refer to it as Taiwan or Formosa...


JUST KIDDING hdlee!!!

"renegade province" i believe is the official party line

Jag

 

[hdlee]

he he...
Before 1970, Taiwan is a member of UN and official name is Repiblic of China.
After 1970, UN accepted PR China to replace Republic of China.
I know this issue is a very difficult to explain here, so I just only to explain why a airline in Taiwan island called China Airlines. It's a political and historical issue.

 

[Hoosier]

Mind you one of there planes (KAL) recently landed on the taxi way of a Japanese airport (fortunately Akita is a pretty sleepy airport!)

Korean Airlines Boeing 737-900 lands on taxiway in Japan, delaying onward connections
By Leithen Francis

Japanese authorities are investigating an incident on 6 January in which a Korean Air (KAL) Boeing 737-900 landed on a 30m (98ft)-wide taxiway rather than on a runway.
A KAL spokeswoman in Seoul confirms the 737-900 landed on the 30m-wide taxiway, parallel to the runway, at Akita airport in the north of Japan’s main island.
It was a scheduled flight from Seoul Incheon to Akita and it was “raining at the time”, says the spokeswoman for the SkyTeam alliance carrier, who is unable to confirm the accuracy of Japanese news reports that quote the aircraft’s captain as admitting the incident was due to pilot error.
There was no damage to the aircraft and no injuries to the 124 passengers and eight crew on board, says the spokeswoman, adding that the Japanese authorities are now investigating.
She says the Japanese authorities took the pilots in for questioning after the aircraft landed at 12:30 on 6 January.
This meant passengers scheduled to board the Akita-Seoul Incheon flight later that same day were instead taken to Tokyo’s Haneda airport and caught KAL’s shuttle service to Seoul Gimpo, she adds

The captain and co-pilot are fired based on the recent news...:no