Seattle: Flying high

Ihssane Mounir (seated at left), Boeing Co senior vice-president of sales for greater China, Japan and South Korea, signs a memorandum with Yang Rui, deputy general manager of Air China North America, at Monday's ceremonial delivery of a Boeing 777-300ER jet to the airline. The plane, nicknamed "Smiling China", is painted with images of 40 faces of Chinese people, half of whom are front-line Air China employees. The other 20 were selected through a social-media campaign. Rong Kai (left), a technician who invented Air China's first landing-gear assembly to be used in a revamped Boeing 737NG, and flight attendant Wang Ruilin both have their faces featured on the aircraft's fuselage. Wang Jun / China Daily