Air China said it carried 2.87 mln passengers in March 2007, up 17 pct from a year earlier.

In the first three months of the year, the Beijing-based airline carried 7.86 mln passengers, up 15.1 pct from a year earlier.

Air China carried 83,072 tons of cargo in March, up 15.7 pct year-on-year, while the cumulative total for the first three months was 216,922 tons, a rise of 15.5 pct.