Air China will plans to start a new flight between Bangalore, the IT capital of India, and Shanghai, the business hub of China. The Shanghai-Tokyo-Bangalore flight will begin its operations before December 25, 2009.

Air China, the state-owned flag-carrier airline of China and the country’s largest international carrier, said it was expecting huge losses for 2008 because of the downturn in global traffic demand and the high prices of aviation turbine fuel during most part of the year.