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Shanghai to See More Flights to Europe Next Year

It will be easier to get an air ticket from Shanghai to Europe as four major European air companies--Air France, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, Lufthansa and Vigin Atlantic--announced simultaneously to expand transport capacity to the city starting from next April.


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It will be easier to get an air ticket from Shanghai to Europe as four major European air companies--Air France, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, Lufthansa and Vigin Atlantic--announced simultaneously to expand transport capacity to the city starting from next April.

With more and more frequent exchanges with the outside world Shanghai is marching steadily towards an air traffic hub in the Asia-Pacific region, and that the four European airlines announced additional flights almost at the same time is a phenomenon rarely seen before.

Air France said that it would add two Shanghai-Paris flights each week in the summer and autumn timetables of 2003 to ensure the company to have a flight between Shanghai and Paris every day. While KLM Royal Dutch Airlines would also increase its flight number between Shanghai and Amsterdam to five flights every week by adding two flights per week.

The Germany-based Lufthansa airline has added its Munich-Shanghai flights to four each week after opening three flights in the latter half this year, and more flights is expected possibly next year.

The British Airlines, Vigin Atlantic, which has four London-Shanghai flights each week in busy seasons and three in off-seasons, is now considering changing the four flights per week to regular ones round the year. If the plan approved, it will replace the current A340-300 aircraft of Shanghai line with A340-600 aircraft, since the latter has 25 percent more seats.

Airlines between Shanghai and European cities are boomed up by people who go abroad for studies, business and sightseeing tours, expert said, with a passenger flow growth of 40 percent from 1999 to 2001. Passenger peaks also appeared during the Spring Festival period in recent years.

By PD Online Staff Li Heng


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