>> that had to be all our customers. thank you and this is really a spectacular celebration usually i mean, i'll not stand behind the podium especially, as i'm as short. i'm sure you're aware of certainly here in san francisco united offers travelers more choices than other other aural but we're especially proud for this great launch of this service united will be the first airline to fly non-stop from u.s. to mainland china behind shanghai and the first to serve same thing did you. but you also know you see behind us this gate this new changing

due with our borrowing dream liner it's resolutioning flying experience extraordinary passenger friendly which makes it very important were our customers and all the people involved it's an amazing airline we expel khan do you to be a popular designation for leisure customers chung do is chinese second largest city with future 5 hundred companies that are doing business we're excited to welcome all those business customers as you know it's the nature habitat for the that an district attorney and especially the codeine and opera to you can do business and have a great

time all all the time when you're in khan did you it has showing so much to offer so in addition to providing non-stop serves f services that will help with our partners ain't air china are the most world most expensive air china offers flights to 60 plus city's the same day connects with our non-stop khan do service on united we'll have a great privilege serving china thirty years and china is one of the most fast growing dynamic and fast growing united has twice as much capacity to china than

other other flights. so mike's talked about the fact please indulge we're extremely proud the gateway at the sfo and it's made possible by the amazing people and businesses and all the places in san francisco and up and down the west coast and we offer, of course, more service around the bay area than any other airline and united operates more than 3 hundred flight to more than 90 designations around the world and in addition, we also offer non-stop to cities around the united states and europe and latino america and canada so we have the world covered for you

and now, of course, adding changing do we're honored that mr. mayor is here and the people from the general council from china and all of you are customers a lot of our important travel partners and media we're tliefrld i'm going to turn it over to our fabulous mc mr. mike. thank you, again everything that's a pleasure to be here. >> thank you dave hilton man. >> folks next up i'd like to introduce somebody who really is approximately to the city and done a fantastic job as our may be mayor he's the people's mayor folks i'd like to welcome mr. mayor meanwhile. (clapping.)

>> thank you mike and thank you, david for m that wonderful delay when a with wasn't a that a great performance on that think name changing dave and i were joking he needs that skill for the business world i need it for our political world we're going to have to excel but i want to say congratulations to united you've been a huge part of our airport hub. >> thank you john and other chiang did you is one of the most important cities in china not only the fourth largest but its population over 14 million demolishing we have 16 and a half visitors here that you rivals that and it's the first

of major flight into the interior part of china had city is one of the huge chung do and you don't have to be china scholars ask ambassador ed for all the information by it's historic one of the most historic cities in china yes, we mentioned that they not only have the passion, prejudice district attorney sanctuary but they are famous their cuz begin and art world but for the business world that's why this flight is so important i predict that will going from 3 times a welcome to more that's the relationship between china in the area it about that growth. so this is going to be a wonderful flight i'm very sad that i can't be on this flight.

(laughter) 83 very sad you must, you know, how many hours i'm i've spent but ultimately it come down to this i have to take care of the local that an duo district attorney the one that plays with the giants. i know tanya our director of our zoo will be on the flooikt flight either flight i know shields find the sanctuary a nice place i've been there with ore former mayor willie brown and back in the 90s to hold the baby that an daze is a wonder hopefully tanya will find her way but it's a great flight it's important flight and one that i think a lot of people are going to watch doss because this will exhibit not only mount strong

relationship as the gateway to the panic ambassador more and more business people from china one of the designations to the san francisco bay area and companies from our area technology and bio technologies want to invest for families and it's important for both sides of the world i'm thankful that united has spent the time and energy and a to plan because you'll have customers in the bay area p will be strongly supportive. congratulations to united our airport your council general and congratulations again for another great route we all have and continue to promote and anita i can bring a few pandering that daze back and

dream liner you get a dream and the dreamer liner is one of the new it and hopefully, will be on this one of those days thank you, again. and congratulations (clapping) >> thank you mr. mayor thank you very much. folks i must say take a second here that i would be remiss if i didn't acknowledge the first lady of our great city ms. lee thank you so much as well (clapping) >> we talk about this great powerhouse and we talk about how many designations we serve out of san francisco i want to remind everybody that the reason we did that is because of you in the room and our customers the great package ridge and the great business community in san francisco we can't thank you

enough the hometown cowering in san francisco united airlines and nobody else. folks with that, i want to turn my sights open the ambassador and all the work he and, of course, the mayor's office did this wouldn't be possible not only from the people if china but the mayor's office and frankly we wouldn't be here ambassador you want to come up and join us i'd appreciate it, sir (clapping.) i'm mr. lee and mrs. lee.

mr. pacific and distinguished guests it's my great pleasure to be celebrating your airlines a celebration of san francisco. on behalf of the council gentle i'd like to express my congratulations to airlines and thanks to all the guests here for your support. san francisco is a hub for world travelers. especially for those who travel to and from china. it's almost 8 hundred and some chinese americans living in the

bayer bay area and important importantly in the community across the ocean and the demand for traveling between san francisco and china is nationally high and truly sustainable. and on june 13th more than 1.8 million came from china to the united states. the growth of 23 percent and the total spend over $9.8 billion u.s. delores dollars so it's a perfect time for an airline to open direct flights so we connect chu do and san francisco. we have an additional 2 hundred and 90 seats available for

people to fly directly to the united states by that 13 thousand per year historic this is a first rate travel people fly to the united states we enjoy the transportation to travel directly to chu do and in the south west china it's brought in the economic vibrate. i believe we will promote and communicate also in the trade and economic and education and have other growths.

this is a historical moment once again my congratulations to the united airlines thank you. (clapping.) >> thank you, mr. ambassador thank you, thank you, thank you again. lame the next person i want to invite you up to the stage is definitely a good friend of united mr. particular i want to send a 92 thank you to our new ceo congratulations, sir (clapping) >> and i have to say we love it when united refers to sfo as a powerhouse hub it shows how

important we recognize how important united is to sfo carrying 40 percent of our passengers it's very important an important occasion to welcome everyone on behalf of our director john martin who couldn't be here today but worked tirelessly we at 70 sfo continue to grow tremendous growth over the past 3 years 26 percent of air traffic control growth. and more our the last 5 years. our traffic growth to asia has been an important part of the story their counting up to 10 percent of our traffic into sfo and with an increase on an executives 20 percent in the

last 5 years a trend which i hope will continue and service the needs of the san francisco bay area and the 14 million residents of chu do. we feel we're the right partner to build it's schedule to asia in terms of the designation traffic and connecting traffic to other popular designations by ain't and it's star line passengers. early this year we opened a renovated boarding area this takes did airport experience to a new level and provide amenities you will only find in a lecturer hotel and in the next 10 years sfo will invest over $4 billion of improvements to the terminal one and 3

facilities providing a hotel and the extension to a long term parking facility as well as dramatic xochlts to those wonderful international terminal cities to elevate the passengers experience this will have an exceptional traffic experiences and all will benefit from the airlines easy connections to 37 cities in the u.s. on behalf of the director we congratulate airlines and wish them continual success of our airports thank you very much. (clapping.) >> thank you i vary and thank you to the city of san francisco and the people republic of china. ladies and gentlemen, i'd like to ask actually before we do

that i want to thank you our customers to support united and our great employees in san francisco that quite frankly make everyone in support of our customers fantastic thank you our employees in san francisco. but first, i'd like to ask all or speakers to join me as well as our captain today we want to ingratiate this trip with a ribbon cutting ceremony please join me by the gate the rest of you. ready. ladies and gentlemen, ingratiate our brand new flight will of the san francisco powerhouse gateway

to the to all or friends in china and chu do congratulations to everybody and 1, 2, 3. >> all right. (clapping) congratulations to everyone. thank you so much and united airlines to the airport and the captain to our passengers and

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opera. a friend of mine said well, what would you really want to do i said opera what is it not opera parallel. why isn't it are that i have the support now we can do that. i realized that was something that wasn't being done in san francisco no other organization was doing this as opposed to contemporary we are very blessed in san francisco to have organizations well, i thought that was going to be our speciality >> you create a conceptual idea for setting the opera and you spear ahead and work with the other sdierndz to create an overview vision that's the final

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helped my growth i had a dream of having a professional residential on and on soccer ball to be an imperial >> it operates as a laboratory we germ a national the ideas technically and work with activity artists and designers and video all over the on any given project to further the way we tell stories to improve our ability to tell stories on stage. that's part of the opera lab >> i was to investigate that aspect of renaissance and new work so that's why this piece it is important it was a renaissance composer. >> there were young people that are not interested in seeing

traditional opera and like the quality and it's different it has a story telling quality every little detail is integrated and helps to capture the imagination and that's part of the opera how we can use those colors into the language of today. >> so one of the great things of the stories of opera and story combined with opera music it allows people to let go and be entertained and enjoy the music instead of putting on headphones. >> that's what is great about art sometimes everyone loves it because you have to, you know,

really great you have to have both some people don't like it and some people do we're concerned about that. >> it's about thirty something out there that's risky. you know, disliked by someone torn apart and that's the whole point of what we're drying to do >> you never take this for granted you make sure it is the best if you can. >> ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪