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[edit] People's Republic of China, minus Hong and Macau

As mentioned on my talk page, in this edit I removed all of the Hong Kong and Macau airlines. Whilst Hong Kong and Macau are part of the PRC, they both have their own civil aviation authoritys with oversight for their SAR, which includes airline licencing and CoA oversight. Hence, they should not be regarded simply as Airlines of the PRC, but as Airlines of their respective SAR, which means they get their own template. Comments? --Russavia 21:29, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

Hong Kong and Macau air regulation is considered as a special kind of domestic traffic. The regulating authorities are separate from the other civil authorities, but still answer to the central government. Foreign airlines that want to register an aircraft to Hong Kong need special permission of the central government. HK/MO air traffic is not at all independent. Plus, the ownership of HK/MO airlines can almost always be tracked back to state-owned PRC companies. Just lump it all together. SchmuckyTheCat 21:44, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
A sub-entity getting its own template dosent mean the main entity must exclude them. A template on the countries of Eastern Europe does not mean all countries of Eastern Europe are exluded from a template for European countries. Templates are meant to assist in navigation, and not used to reflect some kind of a geopolitical setup.--Huaiwei 11:53, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
I have started comment at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Airlines#Airlines_of_the_People.27s_Republic_of_China. It might be more useful there in order to get concensus on all airline templates to get them standardised across the board. --Russavia 05:01, 20 May 2007 (UTC)