Chinese flights triple in a decade

A plane arrives at Lanzhou airport from Taipei on Jan 11, 2012, for the first flight between the two cities. The number of Chinese people taking to the skies hit 293 million in 2011, 3.4 times the number in 2002, according to statistics by Civil Aviation Administration of China."After 10 years development, flight is becoming a daily transportation means for ordinary people," said Li Jiaxiang, director of the administration. [Photo/Xinhua]