Air China has announced some domestic and international route expansion as they experience some recovery of the Chinese air travel industry.  The new flights will be as follows:

Re-launch Beijing-Madrid-Sao Paulo service on December 20, 2009
Increasing flights between Beijing and Stockholm using A330 on October 25, 2009
New Beijing to Rome flight daily starting on October 25, [...]

The Star Alliance airline partnering group has continued to fare well and expanded its roster of members in recent years.  I wanted to take a look at the current members since Continental Airlines was just granted regulatory permission to join, making it the third US airline to be a Star Alliance member.  Their web site [...]