Japan and China to hold talks on flying rights
CHINA and Japan will hold three days of talks in Beijing next month to discuss flying rights between the mainland and Osaka's new Kansai International Airport.
The talks will focus on a request by Japan Air System (JAS), the country's leading domestic carrier, to begin flights between Osaka, Guangdong and Shanghai, Japanese officials say.
Japanese airlines are keen to open new routes or to increase the number of flights between Japan and China in a bid to capitalise on growing demand for services between the two.
JAS is close to completing an agreement with United States-based Northwest Airlines on route link-ups.
Meanwhile, sources at Japan Airlines say the carrier expects to report smaller than expected operating losses in fiscal 1994, which ends in March this year, because the number of passengers on its international routes is increasing at a brisk pace.
