Hello from bizjournals.com! David Mueller (davidm@smail.info) thought you might like the following article from Pacific Business News: Chinese airline exec predicts more competition ------------------------------------------------------------ The head of China's largest airline says competition in China's skies will increase if Hong Kong-based Cathay Pacific, not currently a player in the Chinese mainland market, gets regulatory approval to resume flights there. "Competition will intensify after Cathay Pacific re-enters the Chinese market," the chairman of China Southern Airlines Co. said Monday. Cathay Pacific stopped flying to Beijing, Shanghai and Xiamen (Xiamen is a large port city between Hong Kong and Shanghai, the nearest large Chinese city to Taiwan) more than a decade ago but this month has reapplied for permission to serve them. China Southern does not have much airlift to Hong Kong from Beijing or Xiamen and none at all from Shanghai, but its executives said Monday that they feel Cathay Pacific's re-entry will cause more people to fly to China through Hong Kong instead of through other cities that China Southern does serve. Copyright(c) American City Business Journals Inc. All rights reserved. You can view this article on the web at: http://pacific.bizjournals.com/pacific/stories/2002/08/26/daily12.html