A new flight course between Detroit, the United States and Guangzhou, capital of south China's Guangdong Province, will be opened on October 31st this year, with a via point at Tokyo, capital of Japan, announces recently the US Northwest Airlines.

With the opening of the new route, passengers can fly between Guangzhou and some seven port cities in the US, including Honolulu, Los Angeles, Minneapolis/St. Paul Airport, John F. Kennedy Airport of New York, Portland of Oregon, San Francisco and Seattle, with only one transferring.

Guangzhou will be the 15th waypoint of the Asian-Pacific network of NW Airlines, source releases.

In the new line, Boeing 747-400 Airliner will fly in the Detroit - Tokyo part and Boeing 757-200 airliner serves the Tokyo-Guangzhou section, with 20 business-class seats and 162 economy-class seats.

The tickets for the new line was put into sale from August 9 by the Northwest Airlines, US, source releases.

 (Newsgd.com August 10, 2004)