Civil Aviation Administration of China

The Civil Aviation Administration of China (Chinese: 中国民用航空局) (CAAC) formerly the General Administration of Civil Aviation of China, is the aviation authority under the Ministry of Transport of the People's Republic of China. It oversees civil aviation and investigates aviation accidents and incidents.

As the aviation authority responsible for China, it concludes civil aviation agreements with other aviation authorities, including those of the Special administrative regions of China which are categorized as "special domestic". It directly operated its own airline, China's aviation monopoly, until 1988.

Its headquarters is in Dongcheng District, Beijing.

Currently, CAAC is an administrative department mostly intended to supervise aviation market. CAAC releases route applications every week and for routes that don't fly to an open-sky country/region, there will be monthly scoring releases that determine the score for each of them. CAAC subsequently grant those whose score highest on the list permission to start.

CAAC also issue frequent operation data and notices.

Contact Information

Headquarters

 北京市东城区东四西大街155号（100710）
China

Tel:
Fax:

Website: www.caac.gov.cn
 

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