On February 27, Rhonda Hamm-Niebruegge, director of Lambert-St. Louis International Airport, flew to China to begin negotiations with China Cargo Airlines to land cargo flights from China at Lambert.

She told the audience at a St. Louis Council of Construction Consumers' presentation on transportation infrastructure that she hopes China Cargo Airlines will begin landing three flights a week at Lambert this summer and grow its schedule to 30 flights a week by 2015.

“Cargo drives development, passenger travel does not,â€ she said. “