PRESS RELEASES
29 NOVEMBER 2007
Inaugural ceremony – New route Athens-Dubai-Bejiing / Air China
29.11.2007, 06:23 hrs
First arrival in Athens
of Air China, Flight 943 from Beijing

Welcome at Athens
International Airport: The
President of Air China, Mr.
Li Jiaxiang, and the
Greek Minister of
Tourism, Mr. Aris
Spiliotopoulos, having
just disembarked

From Air China’s
welcome at Athens
International Airport
The Chairman of the
Board of Directors of
Athens International
Airport, Professor Kostis Vaitsos, at the podium
Athens International
Airport CEO, Dr. Yiannis
Paraschis, welcomes Air China
The President of
Air China, Mr. Li
Jiaxiang at the podium
Greek Transport and
Communications Minister, Mr.
Kostis Hatzidakis,
during the inaugural
ceremony
The airport’s traditional
“ribbon bonding”:
The President of Air
China, Mr. Li Jianxiang,
and Athens
International Airport CEO Dr. Yiannis Paraschis, symbolically “bond” the new route with the airport
From the inaugural
ceremony
First departure: Athens
International Airport
salutes Air China Boeing
767-200 with the
traditional water archway