China's Shenzhen Airlines set up a stewardess orchestra on Wednesday.

The Information Times reports it is the first ever stewardess orchestra in China. Shenzhen Airlines says their stewardess orchestra has been designed to better serve ceremony occasions of its VIP customers.

At Wednesday's official founding ceremony, the stewardess band "shocked" their airlines' colleagues by playing wonderful pieces of domestic and foreign music, including "The Royal March" and "Song And Smile".

The 48 members of the orchestra are all newly recruited stewardesses in 2007. The number is expected to increase to sixty.

Shenzhen Airlines says their orchestra will also stage performances in their spare time.

(CRI November 23, 2007)