Carrying Chinese goods on flights still popular with African traders

GUANGZHOU - It was 5 pm, and Saada Masood Ally Seif, a Tanzanian passenger in her 20s, was waiting in the departure hall of Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport, though her flight would not take off for seven hours.

"There will be a huge amount of baggage to be checked in, and I want to be the first in the queue," Saada said, eyeing three pieces of baggage beside her, dwarfed by piles of large baggage from other passengers.

Saada would take a midnight flight from the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou to Tanzania's biggest city Dar es Salaam, an air route she has taken many times over the past five years.