Air Macao, the flag-ship air carrier in the special administrative region, launched a new route to Guiyang city of southwest China's Guizhou Province on Monday.

The company said the Macao-Guiyang route will offer a service of two flights a week.

Air Macao, which launched its debut commercial flight in 1995, depends its business mainly on semi-direct flights between the Chinese mainland and Taiwan.

The airline logged a record operating revenue of 2.4 billion patacas (US$300 million) in 2005, handling 2.1 million passengers and 150,000 tons of cargo, and serving 18 destinations across Asia.

(Xinhua News Agency April 18, 2006)