Originally Posted by
catIIIc
Not Pek, the wait just to take off is known to take at least an hour, in which you would time out. The company provided the Ssc with the stats in ground times until departure out of Pek and over 50% of the departures in six month period would have timed out and cancelled if on a three day trip, both out of Ord and Ewr. Not reliable service imho. We waited over an hour last week to get off the ground in Pek. Pvg is doable out of Ord but tight for Ewr.
PEK delays are driven solely by the Chinese government, not the company, and not the UPA. The slop in trip efficiency is out of our hands, it could be a 3 day were it not for the special "made in China" quality of the airport operations.