{"id":135423,"date":"2023-07-04T17:06:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-05T00:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=135423"},"modified":"2023-07-04T17:06:02","modified_gmt":"2023-07-05T00:06:02","slug":"air-china-eyes-multiple-international-route-resumptions-from-chengdu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2023\/07\/04\/air-china-eyes-multiple-international-route-resumptions-from-chengdu\/","title":{"rendered":"Air China Eyes Multiple International Route Resumptions From Chengdu"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span class=\"meta_txt author lighter\">BY <\/span><a class=\"meta_txt author\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/author\/su-wu\/\">SU WU<\/a>\u00a0 Courtesy Simple Flying<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>As the summer travel peak approaches, Air China and other Chengdu-based airlines are increasing domestic and international flights to seize the market<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/air-china\/\">Air China<\/a>, its Southwest Branch, which is based in Chengdu, a hub city in Southwestern China, will launch, resume, and put extra flights from Chengdu to multiple international destinations this July to cope with the upcoming summer travel peak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"new-and-resumed-international-routes-to-foreign-capitals\">New and resumed international routes to foreign capitals<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Among them, starting on July 2nd, Air China launched a new direct flight from Chengdu Tianfu International Airport (TFU) to the capital of the Philippines,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/manila\/\">Manila<\/a>, operating three flights per week. The outbound flights will be on Wednesdays, Fridays, and Sundays, while the return flights will be on Mondays, Thursdays, and Saturdays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yesterday, on July 3rd, Air China resumed the direct flight from Chengdu Tianfu Airport to the capital of Sri Lanka,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/colombo\/\">Colombo<\/a>, with three flights per week, operating on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, on July 19th, a new direct flight from Chengdu Tianfu Airport to the capital of Malaysia,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/kuala-lumpur\/\">Kuala Lumpur<\/a>, will commence with four flights per week, operating on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the initial period of these new routes, Air China launched some promotional activities. For example, the one-way economy class ticket from Chengdu Tianfu to Manila starts from 750 yuan ($104), and the round-trip fare starts from 1,090 yuan ($151).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After the operation of the routes mentioned above, Air China will have launched a total of 13 international destinations in Chengdu. These destinations include cities such as&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/frankfurt\/\">Frankfurt<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/london\/\">London<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/singapore\/\">Singapore<\/a>, and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/bangkok\/\">Bangkok<\/a>, expanding the route network to cover Asia and Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY SU WU\u00a0 Courtesy Simple Flying As the summer travel peak approaches, Air China and other Chengdu-based airlines are increasing domestic and international flights to seize the market According to\u00a0Air China, its Southwest Branch, which is based in Chengdu, a hub city in Southwestern China, will launch, resume, and put extra flights from Chengdu to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}