Delta eyes China
11 November 2005
In a bid to tap into China's fast-growing travel market, US-based Delta Air Lines said it has applied to fly non-stop routes between Atlanta and China, possibly starting in 2007, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing Delta vice president Jorge Fernandez. Delta also announced it opened a representative office in Beijing to sell tickets for its partners, which include China Southern Airlines and Korea Airlines. This comes as Beijing agreed to open another non-stop route to a US airline in 2008, though Delta is lobbying to access the market a year earlier, in 2007.