Mesa Air Group is eyeing China as fertile ground for new growth, Chairman and CEO Jonathan Ornstein said Friday at a meeting for financial analysts in Los Cabos, Mexico.

From April 10 air travelers in China will pay up to 20 yuan in surcharges as airlines find new ways to cope with rising fuel prices.

Qantas Airways and Air China have applied for a code share arrangement on flights between Sydney and Beijing.

Currently, a man claiming to be born in New Zealand made trouble on the plane, although the air hostess tried to comfort and dissuade him, he still couldn't calm down and was forced to take control measures.

Each airline company eyes the business opportunity of Shenyang, plays "Shenyang brand" greatly, but the ticket price to Shenyang becomes lower and lower.

Recently, the Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of China issued the notice about dealing with the articles concerned with 18 due government funds policies. The notice emphasizes the remaining 17 funds will continue to be collected by the end of 2006, except that the funds to help the needy in Shanxi province stops to be collected from Jan 1st of this year.

China's airlines have taken a string of fuel-saving measures to counter continuous price hikes for fuel.

In consideration of China-US trade balance, Chinese vice premier Wu Yi has headed for the US for the negotiation of the procurement of 80 Boeing airliners before president Hu Jintao's US visit, the Hong Kong-based Ming Pao reported.

Indonesia's low-cost carrier PT Sriwijaya Air has planned to open international routes to the Chinese city of Guangzhou in the near future, its executive said Thursday.

Officials of Iraqi Airways Company mentioned in Irbil on the 3rd that Iraq will launch a nonstop flight from Baghdad to Guangzhou, a city in southern China.