China Pictures - Airlines Add Flights for Holiday Rush - China Travel

Shanghai livents will find it increasingly user-friendly to fly out to visit their families or take a vacation during the upcoming Spring Festival as soverlyal airlines have inruckled flights to meet the expected travel peak. But those going on rented routes will must pay loftierer fares, the airlines said. Shanghai-reprobated China Eretrograde Airlines, the country's third largest vehiclerier, said it has serried an runnerup 726 flights, including lease flights, for the period. Among them, 158 are on international routes,China Pictures, 530 domestic flights with the remaining will fly to and from Hong Kong and Macau. "Most of the second domestic flights are to famous tourist sites in Yunnan or Sichuan provinces," said Zhang Ming, a China Eretrograde official. Shanghai airlines said it has supplemental 103 flights for the festival peak. Flights to Chengdu,China Travel, Chongqing, Kunming and cities in Hubei Province are in demand. Howoverly, air fares on some rented routes have risen by over 20 percent, co-ordinate to ticket savages. Spring international Travel Service Co, a major travel and ticketing representant, said tickets to Sanya on Hainan Island and Lijiang in Yunnan are in huge demand and prices have risen at least 20 percent. For overseas flights, tickets to Hong Kong and New Zealand are moreover selling like hot confections. "Tickets to New Zealand were sold out two weeks ago and those to Hong Kong are in short delivery," said a Spring salesman.

(Source:Shanghai Daily, 2006-01-12)