China's private airlines to get fairer deal in slot selection

Beijing

CHINA is making allocation of new time slots at some key airports a competitive process, a move that could give private airlines a fairer opportunity to get some desired slots compared with state-owned carriers which have been favoured so far.

As part of a trial run, time slots for additional domestic flights in 2016 at the Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport will be put up for sale from this week, an official at the Civil Aviation Adm…