China’s Hainan Airlines eyes Los Angeles service in December

Los Angeles will get 2 extra connections to Chinese secondary cities in December, if plans by Hainan Airlines and China Southern Airlines both go ahead. Air China also opened a link, Wednesday, between the California city and Chengdu, in southwestern China. Hainan Airlines has applied to begin flying twice a week between Los Angeles and the north-western Chinese city Xi’an in December, using Boeing 787s, the CAAC said. The agency routinely grants service rights where no other Chinese airline is flying a route, as in this case. The Hainan Airlines application comes a few days after an agreement in late June between China Southern and the govt of Shenyang to open a route between that north-eastern city and Los Angeles Dec 28. <br/>