Continental connects Shanghai to New York
By Liu Jie and Lu Haoting | China Daily | Updated: 2009-03-27 07:44
An airport employee waves a Continental Airlines 737 into Gate 134 at Newark Airport in Newark, New Jersey. Bloomberg News |
Continental Airlines launched the first daily nonstop flight between Shanghai and New York yesterday, making it the first carrier to open a new cross-border route to China this year amid the deepening global economic downturn.
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