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İGA Istanbul Airport has increased its airline roster to 100 with the addition of Air China, which makes Istanbul Airport a member of the "100s Club" and ranks among the three airports globally that serve the highest number of airlines.

Regional airlines are struggling to ramp up flights to Hong Kong because of staff shortages at the airport, slowing the city's plan to recapture its travel hub status, industry insiders have said.

Hong Kong, which calls itself Asia's World City, once had one of the globe's busiest, and best-connected, airports.

Turkish Airlines will resume some international flights this month to China, South Korea and the United States among other destinations, the airline said on June 12, a day after it began restarting such services.

The aviation market is experiencing one of the biggest crises in its history, with the effects stretching from carriers' revenues to the jobs at all the companies in or related to the industry.

Chinese tycoon Wang Jian, co-founder and chairman of the giant Chinese conglomerate HNA Group (Hainan Group), died after an incident in France, the company said on Wednesday. 57-year-old Wang Jian has fallen in Provence where he was on a business visit, the message said.

The government has appointed the new concessionaire at Plovdiv Airport (at Bulgaria's second largest city) following a procedure.

The new airport operator is a consortium between the Chinese company Hainan Group and Plovdiv Airport Invest.

BELGRADE - Flights from Beijing to Belgrade were on Friday restored after 17 years as Serbian PM Ana Brnabic welcomed a Hainan Airlines Airbus A330-300 at the Nikola Tesla Airport.

"It is fantastic to see the results of hard work and this is why people consent to invest their whole lives in the work of the government," she told reporters.

The first plane on the newly-established Beijing-Belgrade route on Friday landed at Belgrade's Nikola Tesla International Airport.

The Hainan Airlines Airbus A330-300 was welcomed by Prime Minister Ana Brnabic, Minister of Construction, Transport and Infrastructure Zorana Mihajlovic and Chinese Ambassador Li Manchang, as well and representatives of the Chinese carrier.

At an internal meeting in April, the new head of China’s banking regulator said he would resign “if the banking industry becomes a complete mess”. On Friday Guo Shuqing and colleagues at the China Banking Regulatory Commission were working to ensure that they had not just created exactly that.

A bomb threat forced a HK airlines heading from Beijing to Hong Kong to make an emergency landing in Wuhan, China. Posts on WeChat and Weibo mention that passengers have been evacuated from the flight. Police and firefighters have surrounded the aircraft and a search is underway.