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Eight Chinese carriers now back in Sydney – Business Traveller

31Oct

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Eight Chinese carriers now back in Sydney – Business Traveller

All eight Chinese airlines that flew through Sydney pre-Covid have now returned. Seat capacity from Sydney airport to mainland China will be 86 per cent recovered in November compared to pre-Covid. This week, Sydney airport welcomed back Sichuan Airlines, with flight 3U3883 from Chengdu touching down on 30 October. The airline’s inaugural flight into Sydney was in December 2013, with services pausing from early February 2020, when Covid travel restrictions began in China. Sichuan Airlines is the final of the eight Chinese airlines to resume services to Sydney since China began lifting Covid travel restrictions in January. At the start of the year, there were just three Chinese carriers flying a total of four return services between Sydney and mainland China. From November, the eigh...

28Oct

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My Grandmother and the Canine Detective

My grandmother, who is ninety-two, has moved three times in her life. She was born in a small town in the province of Shandong, China, and, when she was twenty-three, she took a boat to Shanghai. When she was sixty-three, she moved to Sydney, Australia—where I was born—and then, when she was eighty-five, came with me and my mother to New York. There are a few similarities across these places: all three are port cities—populous, but not the capital—that grew fat off the trade of an eastern coast. Another constant in her life, at least in the past twenty or so years, has been the Austrian police-procedural television show “Inspector Rex,” which is about a crime-fighting dog.“Rex” débuted in 1994, the year I was born, and ran for eighteen seasons over the course of twenty-one years. A standa...

Mainland Chinese carriers add Europe, Sydney flights – Business Traveller

17Oct

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Mainland Chinese carriers add Europe, Sydney flights – Business Traveller

In their most recent schedule update, several Mainland Chinese carriers have flagged new services from Chongqing and Wenzhou to Paris, Madrid and Sydney. More specifically, SkyTeam member China Eastern Airlines will launch a twice-weekly Wenzhou-Madrid service commencing 22 November. The route will be operated by the airline’s latest new-technology long-haul aircraft, the Airbus A350-900. China Eastern’s A350-900s seat 40 passengers in business class across a 1-2-1 configuration, while premium economy is in a 2-4-2 setup, and regular economy is in a 3-3-3 layout. China Eastern currently has 18 A350s in service, with more on order. Separately, other Mainland Chinese carrier, Hainan Airlines, plans to resume its Chongqing-Paris CDG route on 28 November. Initially, that service is sch...

7Sep

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Best Chinese food: 32 must-try dishes

CNN — With one of the world’s most diverse food scenes, China makes it nearly impossible to put together one single list that truly encompasses the “best” Chinese dishes. But with such a huge variety of flavors on offer, it’s immensely helpful to go into the country with an introductory list of essential eats that will give you a well-rounded culinary experience. Below are some of the can’t-miss dishes. We have included both English and Chinese (Mandarin or Cantonese, depending how they are more commonly known) names in this story. One bite into this small mountain of crispy duck skin, juicy meat, radish, cucumber, scalli...