DY's Freedom Index: South Sudan scores sassy

[DoomYoshi]

http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article64578

AFAIK, this is the first ATC by China outside of China. Chinese ATC is notorious for several reasons:
1) the rapidly growing list of airports has made staff unable to keep up with the pace; airport delays are normal in China
2) English is the international aviation language and all Southeast Asians have trouble speaking it pho-sick-niah cleaw pho takeahph
3) Chinese people are more stupider
4) mrswdk went to China once, on A PLANE!

In general, East African ATC isn't the cat fancier's ball though so I guess it's a perfect match.

[notyou2]

English is the language of the world.

[mrswdk]

China is East Asian, not Southeast Asian.

Point one doesn’t make sense. Plz explain. I’ve heard that the most common cause of delays in China is smog, followed by the military sometimes shutting random bits of airspace and foxing people’s flight paths.

[DoomYoshi]

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ralphjennings/2017/06/06/hogging-of-space-explains-why-so-many-flights-still-take-off-late-in-china/

But the most complicated reason for falling aviation on-time performance can be summarized as more and more people flying. In 2014, for example, airlines in China handled 391.95 million trips, up 10.7 percent from 2013, the China Daily says. The percentage of on-time flights fell every year from 2010 to 2015 from more than 80% punctuality in 2009, the state-run media outlet says on its website. Airlines have naturally rushed in to accommodate rising demand, creating an air traffic control glut.

[mrswdk]

Those stats don't actually tell us why the delays occur.

The most obvious conclusion would be that airports in China are now too busy to push all their flights through on time. If heroic and noble Chinese air traffic controllers are able to survive in such an environment without having a heart attack then they will probably completely kill it at a Sudan airport that only handles one plane per day.