Germany's Lufthansa Airlines will expand its business along the China-Germany route and schedule more flights to major Chinese cities, Thursday's China Daily reported.
Despite the overall slump in global economy, China's economy
will keep growing, and its aviation market will keep growing, the daily quoted Jurgen Weber, chief executive of Lufthansa Group, as saying.
Weber is a member of the German government delegation led by
Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder during his visit to China.
"By 2010, I hope Lufthansa can fly four planes a day to Beijing from German cities," the paper quoted Weber.
Lufthansa is now in a sharing arrangement with China's flagship airline, Air China, on routes between China and Germany.
But by the end of this year, Lufthansa will extend its services into other six cities -- Xi'an, Dalian, Guangzhou, Chengdu, Nanjing and Hangzhou, through Air China's network, the daily reported.
Air China, in turn, will then fly to 10 other German cities via Frankfurt, through Lufthansa's network.
(Xinhua News Agency November 1, 2001)
