Sunday 21 February 2016

Seventh Fujian civilian airport's first trans-provincial scheduled flight takes off on 7 March 2016

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



Juneyao Airlines launches Sanming Shaxian Airport's first trans-provincial scheduled flight from Shanghai Pudong on 7 March 2016 when the Fujian Province's seventh civilian airport opens to commercial traffic. 



Sanming Shaxian Airport is located in Fenggang sub-district of Sha County (沙县) in Sanming and was first constructed in 1995. Fujian Province's other six civilian airports are located in Xiamen, Fuzhou, Wuyishan, Quanzhou, Longtian and Longyan (formerly Liancheng).

On 7 March 2016, Juneyao Airlines flight HO1109 departs from Shanghai Pudong for Sanming at 8.55 am, arrives in Sanming at 10.35 am before leaving Sanming Shaxian Airport at 11.35 am under flight HO1110 and touching down in Pudong at 1 pm.

Flights operated by Juneyao Airlines' Airbus A320 aircraft take place on Sundays, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.

To celebrate inaugural flights to Sanming, Sanming Shaxian Airport is introducing a range of attractive travel gimmicks.

For example, any traveler can eat Shaxian desserts for free at the airport. It is not known when the dining offer will end. 

Next, travelers from Fuzhou, Yongtai, Xianyou and Putian arriving at North Sanming Station via bullet train can check-in for Sanming-outbound flights at the railway station where their rail ticket prices will be waived before they travel onwards by airport bus to the airport. 

In addition, tourists arriving in Sanming Shaxian Airport by air can get free entry tickets to important tourist attractions of Sanming by showing their passports, identity cards and boarding passes.

Sanming, the prefecture-level city located in western-to-central Fujian Province, is rated China's "Greenest City" and it is famous for its Shaxian desserts and beautiful natural attractions such as Meilie Ruiyun Mountain, Danxia Landform and abundant Karst topography. It has nine counties.

Sanming's Taining county is home to Xingkou Geshikao Natural Reserve and Golden Lake of Taining World Geopark. Geologists rate the geopark the "Museum of Valleys and Caves" and "Garden of Grand Mountains and Winding Rivers". 

Sanming's Minghua county is home to Goose Cave, and in the county Shibi Village is the original homeland of the Hakkas.

Free entry tickets are for access to the national park, geopark and other listed attractions in Sanming.



XiamenAir flies every week from Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Suvarnabhumi, Jakarta, Taipei, Hong Kong, Sydney, et cetera to Fuzhou where there is convenient traffic access to Sanming.



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