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China's Hainan Airlines has secured regulatory approval to start flights from Beijing to Boston from June 20 using Boeing 787 Dreamliners.
The airline already flies to Seattle and Chicago from the Chinese capital, and the move continues the rapid expansion of flights to the US by China's four largest carriers, fuelled in part by the relaxation of visa restrictions, reported Dow Jones Newswires.
Hainan's international expansion has been restricted to flights to smaller destinations such as Boston, Brussels and Berlin by a Chinese government policy that allows only one domestic carrier on each route.
Hainan is China's fourth-largest carrier by traffic, and executives have said flag carrier Air China could lose its effective monopoly on some prime international routes within a year as part of broader deregulation of China's aviation market.
Apart from its primary hub in the southern city of Haikou, the capital of Hainan province, Hainan Air also operates many flights from Beijing's airport. The airline has ordered 10 Dreamliners.
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