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Air France-KLM aims to expand routes in China
Shanghai, Sept 14, 2006 Air France-KLM chairman and chief executive Jean-Cyril Spinetta said Thursday he was mulling greater cooperation with China-based airlines in a bid to add more routes to key mainland cities. "We are considering cooperating with China Eastern to open two more routes to Wuhan and Wenzhou," Spinetta told a press briefing here, adding that he also hoped to increase flight frequencies on established routes. "Our aim is to have two flights everyday to Shanghai, Hong Kong and Beijing, and one flight to Guangzhou." Air France currently already operates two daily flights from Paris to Beijing, 10 weekly flights to Shanghai and three to the southern Chinese business hub of Guangzhou. Under the KLM masthead, it also maintains services from Amsterdam to Beijing, Shanghai and the southwestern hub of Chengdu. Europe's largest airline has code-sharing with China Eastern Airlines. Spinetta said the French-Dutch group was indeed earning money on its China routes, with sales growing about 15 percent a year. He said the group's cargo business to China, with 14 flights a week including Hong Kong, ranked first, but passenger volumes were behind that of its services to the United States, Japan and Canada. In 2005 Air France hauled 800,000 passengers to China. Spinetta refused to reveal when China Southern, which has the country's largest fleet, would become a fully-fledged member of the global airline alliance SkyTeam, saying cooperation was still in the initial stages. The 10 members of the alliance announced in June that the Guangzhou-based airline would join in 2007. SkyTeam groups 10 carriers, including Air France-KLM, Continental and Delta, which cooperate on reservations, connections, check-in, frequent-flier miles and other services for travellers. Community Email This Article Comment On This Article Related Links Nuclear Space Technology at Space-Travel.com
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