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