Sunday, September 16, 2007

Chinese Airlines


The Chinese Government and its Civil Aviation Authority has released a list of new long haul routes to North America and Europe that its national carriers can fly abroad to from 2008 as well as those that it can increase frequencies on.

The main highlights of this announcement are as follows :

From 2008, Air China is allowed to launch daily flights from PEK to Warsaw, Berlin and Istanbul. China Southern Airlines is allowed to launch daily flights to Newark from Beijing and Moscow from Guangzhou. China Eastern Airlines is allowed to increase its PVG-LAX flights from 7 to 9 flights per week.

Hainan Airlines is allowed to launch 4 weekly flights from Beijing to Berlin and Seattle each respectively. Shanghai Airlines is allowed to launch 5 weekly flights from Shanghai to Vienna and 3 weekly each to Zurich and Hamburg.

From 2009, Air China is allowed to launch daily flights from PEK to Toronto, Manchester, Zurich, Milan, Düsseldorf, Washington DC, Vienna and daily flights from PVG to Rome and San Francisco. China Southern Airlines is allowed to launch daily flights from Beijing to London and Detroit as well as daily flights to Vancouver from Guangzhou.

Hainan Airlines
is allowed to launch daily flights from Beijing to Newark and Chicago. Lastly, Shanghai Airlines is allowed to launch 3 weekly flights from PVG to Seattle and daily to Los Angeles.

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