China's flagship airline, Air China, opened on Thursday a commercial office in Cuba to boost tourism cooperation between the two nations and the Caribbean area.

According to the information released by National Development and Reform Commission(NDRC) on its website in April, projects of China Southern Airlines' and China Eastern Airlines' hub in the new airport in Beijing have been approved.

BOC Aviation Limited ("BOC Aviation") is pleased to announce that it has placed an order for 10 new Boeing 737 MAX 10 aircraft, following the announcement on 19 June 2017 by Boeing of a memorandum of understanding signed at the Paris Air Show.

Conference on Accelerating the Construction of the Demonstration Zone for Jiaxing Comprehensive Integration with Shanghai was held on July 28. Associated officials, business owners and experts from Zhejiang Province and Shanghai attended this conference. More than 30 collaboration agreements on park platform, technologies and talents, and policies benefiting residents were reached.

The first high-speed train running through Northwest China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region launched service Thursday, cctv.com reported.

In the first half of 2017, 214.4 thousand Chinese passengers flew to New Zealand, representing a decrease of 11.2 thousand passengers or 4.96% compared with the same period of last year. For this six months, only January witnessed a significant increase in passenger number because of the Spring Festival. The number of Chinese passengers flew to New Zealand remained at an ordinary level in the following five months.

Chinese carriers have introduced 160 new aircraft in the 2017 first half, expanding their total domestic airline fleet to 3,047 airliners as of June 30, according to China's Civil Aviation Data Analysis.

In the first half of 2017, the number of passengers handled by domestic airports of China continued to maintain a growth trend, with the total passenger throughput of 10-million-passenger airports increasing by 10.77%.

Virgin Australia Holdings Ltd., the airline part-owned by HNA Group Co., aims to add two routes to mainland China to tap into the Chinese backer's aviation hubs and the record flow of visitors heading Down Under.

VistaJet continues to build on its China growth and demonstrates a commitment to the region by expanding its team and launching a Chinese language website. This follows a surge of interest from the April launch of a bespoke WeChat booking platform.