cities with strong business and educational communities: Boston and San Jose. They include Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Washington, D.C.īut in recent years, Chinese carriers have begun to fly to a couple of smaller U.S. You can now catch a nonstop flight to China from 13 airports in the continental United States, most of them large metropolises or hubs for major airlines or both. “Bar none, this is our most important project for 2018 and the next few years, and bar none, I believe, the most important two miles of pavement we have in this region.” ‘It’s a natural’ “This is a 10-year plan and nearly a half a billion dollars investment in the aviation future for the Triangle,” RDU President Michael Landguth said. The new runway would be 11,500 feet long to ensure the large, fuel-laden Asia-bound jets can safely take off in all kinds of weather. The airport’s longest runway, at 10,000 feet, is nearing the end of its useful life, and RDU has begun planning to build a parallel replacement. “And the last time they told us they could get a new international flight, it worked out great,” referring to the daily Delta flight to Paris that began in 2016.Īs for RDU, its biggest investment in a possible flight to China will be construction of a new, longer runway. Definitely not a slam dunk, but certainly not impossible either,” Milazzo said. “They see this within the realm of possibility.
(RDU officials declined to provide numbers, saying they planned to make them part of their presentation on Tuesday.)
Milazzo said RDU is constantly looking for opportunities to establish new air service, and airport officials have said there’s already healthy demand for travel between the Triangle and China. The likely customers for a nonstop flight to China include Lenovo, with dual headquarters in Morrisville and Beijing Duke, with a campus outside Shanghai and a growing number of businesses with Chinese ties, including Smithfield Foods, now a subsidiary of WH Group of China. Among the others is San Jose in Silicon Valley. “North Carolina certainly has these.”Ĭhina is one of several places the Triangle business community would like to be able to reach with a nonstop flight, said Joe Milazzo, executive director of the Regional Transportation Alliance, a business group associated with the Greater Raleigh Chamber of Commerce. “Chinese tourists are said to prefer vacation sites with clean air and safe conditions,” Walden wrote. State University economist Mike Walden noted that a nonstop flight would make it easier for the growing number of Chinese tourists to get to the Triangle, but getting them to the beaches, mountains, golf courses and destinations in the state may take more planning. “And RDU cannot do it alone.”Īmong the possible topics will be ways the Triangle could better accommodate Chinese visitors, both at the airport and in the community.
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