Air China and China Express to Codeshare

Air China and China Express today start to codeshare on each other's selected flights.

According to the agreement signed last week, the two carriers will connect the cities of Chongqing, Guiyang and Dalian to their respective networks.

Air China will be put its code CA on 32 routes operated by China Express, which will extend its route network to the second-tier and third-tier cities around Chongqing as well as in provinces of Guizhou and Liaoning Province.

China Express will put is G5 code on 30 routes operated by Air China, which will extend its network to most of China's big and medium-sized cities.

Currently, Air China operates over 50 routes to Chongqing, Guizhou and Liaoning, giving passengers easy access to most of the Chinese provincial capitals via Chongqing, Guiyang and Dalian.

Luo Tong, Vice President of China Express, said, "The cooperation not only connects the networks of the two carriers, but also makes a trunk route carrier and a feeder carrier complement each other. The feeder market will enter a fast track by benefiting from the well-established trunk routes. So the point-to-point operations of the feeder market will be supported by trunk route operations. China Express is quite committed to making medium and small-sized cities more accessible, and the most effective way of doing that at the lowest social costs is to fully take advantage of the network of trunk routes to grow the feeder market."

Air China serves over 162 destinations in 32 countries and regions worldwide, while China Express is a carrier operating feeder routes for passenger and cargo transportation.