OT: Harmony codeshare with China Eastern
 

According to news reported by China's Xinhua News Agency, China Eastern and Harmony Airways signed a code-share deal which will covers:

Shanghai-Vancouver by MU 346
Vancouver-Calgary by HQ CRJ
Vancouver-Toronto by HQ 757

Effective date is unknow, but probably as soon as possible subject to government approval

Wasn't SQ talking about buying China Eastern? At any rate, an interesting note.

I really don't understand MU. With their winter schedule, their PVG-YVR flight leaves PVG at 11am, too early for connections from around China and Asia and it takes about 2 hours to do a transit in PVG. On the way back, their flight leaves YVR at 750am, too early for connections from other parts of Canada.

What's the point of this code share?

BTW, I flew them with my parents last May/June and their A346 were actually at most 40-50% full. This year, my parents flew them again in May/June are their A346 were 90++% full. Business on MU improved a lot over the last year.