摘要
CAAC Southwest Airline＇s wide-bodied Airbus A330- 200 made its maiden flight, CA4401, to arrive smoothly at Lhasa Gonggar Airport at 9：50 a.m. on June 11 bringing 258 passengers. Another two Airbus A330s join the Air China fleet before July 6. These new planes choose high-performance engines that have been through special technological modification to operate on the high Tibetan plateau and they will become main aircraft on the Lhasa mute. This has been the sixth aircraft type introduced after the first Ilyushin 11-18, and then Boeing 707, Boeing 757, Airbus 340 and Airbus 319 on Tibetan flights since CAAC began operating the Chengdu-Lhasa route 41 years ago.
