Watertown airport impresses Chinese visitors Sites at home are few and inefficient, say executives studying at Whitewater

From: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI) | Date: August 10, 1997 | Copyright information

Chartering a small airplane and flying to a business meeting is a foreign idea to the Chinese.

After all, China has only 150 airports compared with 13,000 in the United States. And all of the airports in China with its huge, concentrated population centers are at least as large as Chicago's O'Hare International Airport.

In addition, few people own private airplanes. Zhi Ouyang and 27 other Chinese executives now know what China is missing. They toured the Watertown Municipal Airport, which, despite its small size, can handle as many as 100 landings and takeoffs per hour. Ouyang, who works ...

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