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Tibet's first local-based airline jets off
Updated: 2011-07-26 17:50
(chinadaily.com.cn)
Dancers perform Tibetan songs and dances during a ceremony to mark the maiden flight of a plane of the newly-established Tibet Airlines at Lhasa Gonggar Airport in Lhasa, the capital of Southwest China's Tibet autonomous region, July 26, 2011. The airline is the first Lhasa-based airline to set up operations there. The maiden flight will fly to Tibet's Ngari prefecture. [Photo/Xinhua] |
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