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Shanghai to allow more foreign carriers to operate this year

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Shanghai will approve more foreign airlines to open international flights to the city later this year, the Xinhua news agency reported yesterday. The foreign carriers include those from France, Britain, the Philippines, and Indonesia, it said. At present, 25 airlines from the mainland and 16 from foreign countries operate out of Shanghai. Shanghai Hongqiao Airport, one of the country's largest, handled 9.23 million domestic passengers and 4.04 million international passengers last year, according to official figures.

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