Chinese carriers seek rights to Europe, Southeast Asia
Shanghai Airlines,
Hainan Airlines
China Southern Airlines
are seeking rights to launch services to Europe.
Hainan Airlines
wants to launch a weekly Guiyang-Paris service from March, a route it had first sought to launch from January.
China Southern
is meanwhile seeking rights to a thrice-weekly Zhengzhou-London service from April,
Shanghai Airlines
wants to launch four-times weekly services between Shanghai Pudong and Budapest in June.
Separately, Qingdao Airlines has applied to commence services to Myanmar and Cambodia in April.
These are twice-weekly services from Changsha to Yangon, Phnom Penh and Siem Reap, as well as a weekly service between Changsha and Mandalay.
Tianjin Airlines has also applied to start plying thrice-weekly between Tianjin and Ulaanbaatar from March.