Sunday 10 January 2016

Qingdao Airlines launches domestic flights from Yantai on 18 January 2016

Report by : Gan Yung Chyan
                  / KUCINTA SETIA
Distributed to All Press & Travel Professionals



Qingdao Airlines is basing its eighth Airbus A320 aircraft at Yantai Fenglai International Airport on 16 January 2016 overnight which is opening two domestic routes linking Yantai with Harbin and Shanghai-Pudong on 18 January 2016. Flights are operated daily. It is the fourth airline to base an aircraft overnight in Yantai after Shandong Airlines, China Eastern and OKAir.

On 18 January 2016, Qingdao Airlines flight QW9811 departs from Yantai for Harbin at 7.15 am, arrives in Harbin at 9.15 am before taking off at 10.15 am and arriving in Yantai at 12.55 pm under flight QW9812.

On 18 January 2016, the same aircraft under flight QW9813 departs from Yantai for Shanghai-Pudong at 8.25 pm, arrives in Pudong at 9.15 pm before taking off at 11.10 pm and arriving in Yantai at 12.50 am on 19 January 2016 under flight QW9814.

Qingdao Airlines' ninth A320 aircraft will join its fleet on 22 January 2016. 

Qingdao Airlines plans to increase its fleet to 50 aircraft by 2020 and to 100 by 2025. It aims to become a full-fledged international airline when its plans to launch international flights from Yantai to Incheon, Tokyo, Osaka, Hong Kong, Singapore, Suvarnabhumi and Kuala Lumpur from 2017 onwards.

Qingdao Airlines currently flies from Qingdao to Shanghai-Pudong, Beijing, Chengdu, Harbin, Hailar, Changsha, Nanjing, Yinchuan, Guiyang, Nanning, Xi'an, Lanzhou, Dunhuang, Urumqi, Quanzhou and Kunming. It has shelved plan to rename to Xinlong Air until further notice.

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