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Air China to launch Chengdu-London
March 9th 2018
Mainland flag carrier, Air China, will launch Chengdu-London in May. Read More » The service will be the first nonstop link between the two cities since British Airways withdrew from the route in January 2017 because it was “not commercially viable”.
Air China’s intercontinental network from Chengdu is limited at present with flights to Frankfurt, Paris and Sydney.
This is about to change with the Star Alliance member’s commitment to open routes from Chengdu to Brisbane, Delhi, Dubai, Islamabad, Istanbul, Male, Rome, San Francisco and Vancouver by 2025.
Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport was China’s fourth busiest airport in 2017, handling approximately 50 million passengers that year. Construction on Chengdu’s new Tianfu International Airport, which is 50kms from downtown Chengdu, is scheduled to open in 2020.
Notable long-haul routes from Chengdu include Qatar Airways to Doha, Etihad Airways to Abu Dhabi, United Airlines to San Francisco, Sichuan Airlines to Los Angeles, Melbourne, Moscow, Tel Aviv, Vancouver and Zurich, Hainan Airlines to New York and Los Angeles, Ethiopian Airlines to Addis Ababa and KLM to Amsterdam.
