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Air China Canada has chosen the newly expanded Prince George Airport as Air China’s alternate airport to Vancouver. Transportation and Infrastructure Minister Shirley Bond said Air China’s decision to increase the number of direct flights to Vancouver and the selection of Prince George as the alternate airport is a huge win for northern British Columbia. “This is great news for British Columbia and is a direct result from the work undertaken at the 2009 International Open Skies Summit in September,” said Bond. Tim McEwan, president of Initiatives Prince George was at the Air China announcement in Vancouver's Robson Square. "It's another step on the path towards building the air cargo business at Prince George," he says. The Prince George Airport Authority's director of marketing, Todd Doherty, says the Air China's decision is a sign of the airport's potential. "What it says is that the market has confidence in the products that we have to offer in Prince George." McEwan describes Prince George and northern B.C. as "the linchpin between two great economies – the Asia-Pacific, particularly mainland China, and the U.S. heartland markets and we are the shortest distance between those two points."
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