China Sends Chartered Flight to Mexico: Report
    2009-05-04 22:02:04     CRIENGLISH.com      Web Editor: Jiang Aitao
 

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China Southern Airlines has again received orders to dispatch a chartered plane to pick up stranded Chinese citizens in Mexico, after a flight was cancelled late on Sunday, China National Radio reported Monday.

The Boeing 777-200 plane is scheduled to depart from Guangzhou, capital city of southern China's Guangdong Province at 10pm Beijing time and is expected to arrive in Mexico City around 1:30pm Tuesday Beijing time, the report said, citing airline sources.

The report came as China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement on its website Monday the two countries had reached an agreement on repatriating nationals aboard specially chartered flights and were working out the details of the flights.

The chartered plane with a full capacity of 284 persons will then take on the Chinese nationals and fly to Mexico's Tijuana, from where it will return to Shanghai's Pudong Airport on Wednesday morning.

Xinhua news agency reported that around 120 or so Chinese citizens are stranded in Mexico. The China National Radio report said the Chinese embassy in Mexico has asked the airline to take on additional 80 people.

The report said that as well as stranded tourists, the flight will also take back some Chinese businessmen in Mexico. The airline equipped the flight with a double crew to ensure the special task was smoothly carried out.

An expert from the Shanghai Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau and a flight doctor with the airline will be onboard the flight. The plane is stocked with food and water loaded in Guangzhou.

A 25-year-old Mexican man, who arrived in Shanghai Thursday aboard flight Aeromexico 098, was later diagnosed with influenza A/H1N1 in Hong Kong.

The Mexican became Hong Kong's first confirmed case of influenza A/H1N1 infection Friday. It was also the first such case in Asia.

Following the outbreak, the Chinese government suspended flights from Mexico to Shanghai starting Saturday. It said it depends on the flu outbreak situation as to when the flights will resume.

Sixty-eight people who were on the same Mexico City-Shanghai flight with the diagnosed Mexican national have been located and are in quarantine in Shanghai, health officials said Sunday.

None have displayed any flu symptoms, according to Xu Jianguang, head of the municipal health bureau.

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