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United Airlines Holdings and Air Canada Friday expanded their code-sharing agreement, as the carriers look to accelerate their post-pandemic recovery and cash in on the growing international travel market. Airlines struggling with rising cost pressures and operational challenges expect improved demand for international travel to help cement their path towards profitability. Code-sharing allows an airline to sell seats on a flight operated by its partner, so that it can fly passengers to destinations it does not serve. Under the expanded deal, passengers who search for flights between the United States and Canada on United's or Air Canada's websites and apps will find more flight options and more access to each airline's seat inventory. The carriers anticipate customers will be able to connect to 46 transborder codeshare destinations in 2022, but it will exclude certain US leisure markets and territories. "As international travel continues to recover, this expanded partnership will provide an enhanced experience for all transborder travel," said Patrick Quayle, United's senior VP of Global Network Planning and Alliances.<br/>

Asiana Airlines resumed its Incheon-Beijing route Saturday after suspending it for more than two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic. An Asiana plane carrying 141 passengers left Incheon International Airport in the morning and arrived at Beijing Capital International Airport, the company said. Before the pandemic, the Incheon-Beijing route was a key route between the two countries used by some 1.1 million passengers annually. It was suspended in March 2020 under the Chinese government's<br/>COVID-19 restrictions. Asiana said it will offer one flight a week on the route every Saturday and consider increasing the number of flights as the Chinese government has shortened the mandatory quarantine period for overseas arrivals to 10 days from two to three weeks.<br/>