Wuhan, China's fourth passenger city, adds Paris to its flight list
2012 04 20
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AIR FRANCE has launched an 11-hour service from central China's city of Wuhan to Paris Charles de Gaulle, Xinhua reports.
The service offers three flights a week using Boeing 777-200ER aircraft from Wuhan's Tianhe International Airport.
Wuhan has accelerated its development as the air hub for the country's fourth city for air passengers after Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou. The upgrading facilities and capacity has also attracted carriers from home and abroad.
Air China started a service from Wuhan to Tokyo last year, starting a race among carriers providing international services from Wuhan. China Southern Airlines has announced plans to start new routes to Singapore, Seoul, Bangkok and Kaohsiung this year. China Eastern Airlines has launched the Wuhan to Singapore line on April 19 and will start a service to Japan's Shizuoka in June. Singapore-based SilkAir will also launch a service to Singapore on April 24.
Sun Jianhua, a manager from China Southern's Hubei branch office, said the carriers launched chartered service from Wuhan to Osaka and Shizuoka in March and plans to turn them into scheduled services. The carrier is also preparing to launch flights to Danang in Vietnam and recommence services to Korea's Jeju and Thailand's Phuket Island this year.
Wuhan has been operating 11 international flights to Hong Kong, Taiwan, Macau flights from the beginning of the year and another eight to 10 international services will be added this year.
By 2015, Wuhan will offer another 10 international services covering Asia, Europe and America, raising the total to 20 and increasing to more than 40 by 2030.
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