A vehicle air conditioning system secures an appropriate temperature
difference in the air blown through vertically arranged air ducts when
the system is in a bi-level mode. A hot air inlet is disposed above a
cool air inlet. A face opening is disposed at an upper location while
foot openings are disposed at a lower location. A blow mode-changing door
for opening and closing both the openings is a butterfly type door. The
blow mode-changing door is pivotally disposed in a door housing. In the
bi-level mode in which the blow mode-changing door opens both the foot
openings and the face opening, a bi-level mode bypass passageway for
introducing cool air from the cool air inlet into the face opening is
defined between an extremity of the blow mode-changing door and the inner
wall surface of the door-housing portion.