British Caledonian in the 1970s 31 March 1973 - with the BR airline designator it had inherited from BUA at the time of its formation. This resulted in exclusive use of the BR designator as a prefix for all BCal flight numbers. In 1973, BCal also inaugurated its fourth scheduled domestic trunk route between London Gatwick and Manchester. The new service was contracted to British Island Airways (BIA), BUIA's successor, which operated two daily return trips using its Handley Page Dart Herald turboprops. On 20 March 1974, BCal switched its Gatwick—Paris services to the then brand-new Charles de Gaulle Airport in the northern Paris suburb
Sanming Shaxian Airport undisclosed reasons. In 2009 construction started for the third time, back with government funding worth 1.447 billion yuan. The airport was opened on 7 March 2016. The airport has one runway that is long (extendable to in the future) and wide (class 4C), and a terminal building. It is designed to handle 430,000 passengers annually by 2020. Sanming Shaxian Airport Sanming Shaxian Airport is an airport serving the city of Sanming in Fujian Province, China. It is located in Fenggang Subdistrict of Sha County (Shaxian). After several false starts, the airport was opened in March 2016. Construction of Sanming Airport