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| | i-Newswire.com - Press Release And News Distribution - Okay Airways Becomes China's First Boeing 737-900 Operator (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18) |
 | | Okay Airways Company Ltd., the Peoples' Republic of China's first private airline, has received its first Boeing [NYSE:BA] 737-900 and will be the first Chinese carrier to operate the largest model of the 737 family. |
 | | "Okay Airways selected the Boeing 737-900, the most advanced model in its class, to provide the optimum in safety, reliability and economics," said Liu Jieyin, chairman and president of Okay Airways. |
 | | Okay's 737-900s will be used primarily in passenger service, initially for routes such as Tianjin to Kunming, Changsha, Zhang Jiajie, Guilin, Hohhot, Taiyuan and Haerbin, followed by other routes as the fleet expands. |
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