US airlines in rush to China
WASHINGTON – Five US airlines have applied to operate new non-stop flights between the United States and China beginning in March 2009.
American Airlines plans to operate daily nonstop service between Chicago and Beijing, starting March 25, 2009, complementing its current daily service to Shanghai.
Continental Airlines has applied to fly between Newark, New Jersey, and Shanghai, while US Airways is seeking to offer nonstop service between Philadelphia and Beijing.
CO currently flies to Beijing from Newark and said the new service would “serve the large Asian and Chinese-American population residing in the New York City/Newark area and the largest population base in the US in which passengers have been forced to use connecting flights or less-than-daily foreign carrier service . . .between the US financial capital and the rapidly expanding Chinese financial capital.”
Delta Air Lines has asked for the right to fly from Atlanta to Beijing and Shanghai, while Northwest Airlines has filed to offer service between Detroit and the same two Chinese cities.
Earlier this year, the U.S. Department of Transportation (DoT) gave United the right to operate a new daily nonstop flight from Washington Dulles International Airport to Beijing.
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