Civil Aviation Administration of China / 中国民航总局
The Civil Aviation Administration of China is the regulator whose policy opening and approval process frame Chinese Private Airline Opening in No.203 "不死鸟"兰世立. The episode says the regulator signaled openness to private capital around 2004, after which carriers including East Star Airlines / 东星航空 and Spring Airlines / 春秋航空 gained approval.
For East Star, the regulator matters because approval was not only a market decision. Lan Shili / 兰世立 needed support from Hubei / 湖北 and Wuhan / 武汉 officials before East Star received permission to prepare as a private airline in 2005. The source therefore treats regulatory opening as a constrained window that still required local state backing, capital, aircraft, and operational capability.
商业小样46 | 买机票时，为什么总要多交两笔钱？ adds a passenger-pricing role. The episode says CAAC works with the National Development and Reform Commission to set monthly domestic aviation fuel surcharge upper limits, receives filings for international-route fuel surcharges, and requires airlines to absorb at least part of fuel-price increases through Aviation Fuel Cost Pass-Through rules.
Connections
- Chinese Private Airline Opening — policy window the page anchors.
- East Star Airlines / 东星航空, Spring Airlines / 春秋航空, and Lan Shili / 兰世立 — private-airline examples.
- Hubei / 湖北, Wuhan / 武汉, and Local Government Enterprise Rescue — local-government layer around approval and crisis response.
- Private Airline Failure Modes — failure pattern once approved entrants met aviation’s fixed-cost structure.
- Aviation Fuel Surcharge / 航空燃油附加费, Aviation Fuel Cost Pass-Through, and Civil Aviation Development Fund / 民航发展基金 - pricing, cost-pass-through, and public-fund mechanisms added by 商业小样46.
- National Development and Reform Commission / 国家发改委 - co-setting regulator for domestic fuel-surcharge caps in the source.