{"id":19625,"date":"2008-04-25T10:05:59","date_gmt":"2008-04-25T17:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2008\/04\/travel-boom-makes-air-china-soar\/"},"modified":"2008-04-25T21:25:07","modified_gmt":"2008-04-26T04:25:07","slug":"travel-boom-makes-air-china-soar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2008\/04\/travel-boom-makes-air-china-soar\/","title":{"rendered":"Travel Boom Makes Air China Soar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/business\/7366324.stm\">BBC News<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Air_China\">Air China<\/a> has reported a 147% rise in quarterly profits, helped by a travel boom sparked by the rapid growth in the Chinese economy. The airline made net profits of 1.04bn yuan ($149m; \u00a375m) in the first three months of 2008.<\/p>\n<p>The strengthening yuan against the US dollar has also helped because the airlines pay for fuel and other expenses in dollars. Air China is expected to get a boost from people travelling to the Olympics.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In the lead-up to the Olympics, China has tightened restrictions on air travel. From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.keralanext.com\/news\/?id=1219484\">Keralanext.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>China will restrict most passengers from taking more than one piece of carry-on baggage on flights from May 1, the aviation regulator said on Friday, in the latest of a pre-Olympic security crack down.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, China added matches and lighters to a list of banned items on board domestic flights after what it said was plot to bring down a flight from the restive far western region of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Xinjiang\">Xinjiang<\/a>. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From BBC News: Air China has reported a 147% rise in quarterly profits, helped by a travel boom sparked by the rapid growth in the Chinese economy. The airline made net profits of 1.04bn yuan ($149m; \u00a375m) in the first three months of 2008. The strengthening yuan against the US dollar has also helped because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[13,2],"tags":[3369,4974,809,350],"class_list":["post-19625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beijing-olympics-2008","category-economy","tag-air-china","tag-olympic-preparation","tag-travel","tag-yuan-rate","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Travel Boom Makes Air China Soar<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2008\/04\/travel-boom-makes-air-china-soar\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Travel Boom Makes Air China Soar\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"From BBC News: Air China has reported a 147% rise in quarterly profits, helped by a travel boom sparked by the rapid growth in the Chinese economy. 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