FOCUS: Airlines hoping Haneda-Beijing route may become gold mine

FOCUS: Airlines hoping Haneda-Beijing route may become gold mine

TOKYO, Japan - (From L to R) Chinese Ambassador to Japan Cui Tiankai, Parliamentary Secretary for Land, Infrastructure and Transport and Tourism Takashi Nagayasu, All Nippon Airways President Shinichiro Ito and Japan Airlines President Haruka Nishimatsu celebrate the opening of a charter flight route between Haneda airport and Beijing airport Oct. 25 at a ''kagami-biraki'' ceremony at Haneda airport.

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