China Eastern to start Kunming-Lijiang service

Updated: 2014-10-14 17:15
By Ge Jieru
(chinadaily.com.cn)

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China Eastern will provide more flight services in Yunnan this winter and next spring. By then, China Eastern Yunnan Limited Company will provide service for 115 flight routes, connecting 73 destinations, Chuncheng Evening News reported.

The newly-imported Airbus A330-200 will fly the Kunming-Paris non-stop intercontinental route, Kunming-Beijing route and Kunming-Chengdu route.

China Eastern Yunnan will also open new international routes and increase flight density, including routes for Pudong-Kunming-Katmandu (seven flights a week), Pudong-Dubai (two flights a week) and Xishuangbanna-Kunming-Hong Kong (two flights a week).

In regard to domestic routes, China Eastern Yunnan will increase flight services for the Kunming-Xingyi-Shanghai Hongqiao route (four flights a week), Kunming-Beihai-Xiamen route (three flights a week) and Zhenzhou-Kunming-Lhasa route (seven flights a week).

Also, China Eastern Yunnan will build an inter-provincial direct route between Kunming and Lijiang.

By Ge Jieru and edited by Michael Thai.

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