U.S.-China aviation relations: flight path toward open skies?

Cornell International Law Journal, September, 2002 by Meyer, Gabriel S.

Introduction

On January 7, 1981, a Civil Aviation Authority of China (CAAC) Boeing 747 touched down at San Francisco International Airport, marking the resumption of air service between the People's Republic of China and the United States for the first time since the Communist Revolution of 1949. (1) While the flight's 139 passengers shuffled off the aircraft and made their way through customs and immigration, San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein and Chinese Consul General Hu Ding-yi stood nearby, taking part in a celebratory ribbon-cutting ceremony. (2) Mayor Feinstein called the event "an exciting and historic occasion," while Consul General Hu predicted that the opening of the air route would lead to increased travel between China and the United States. (3)...

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