China Eastern Airlines plans to operate 3,076 passenger flights on a daily basis in the new flight season, and also increase its seat capacity to 24.84 billion passenger-kilometers per month. Meanwhile, its number of international and regional flights, is expected to reach 1,084 per week.
Flights of China Eastern are going to cover 246 domestic and international destinations during the new flight season, including 181 domestic destinations, six regional destinations, and 59 international destinations, according to the airline.
The company disclosed that its number of Shuttle Service and quasi-Shuttle Service routes will reach 41, and the daily number of flights on these routes will stand at about 404 in the new flight season.
China Eastern will also continue to open new international routes and resume international flights on previous routes during the new flight season.
The airline plans to launch new routes, including routes connecting Shanghai and Cairo; Shanghai and Vientiane; Hangzhou and Auckland; Hangzhou, Sydney, and Auckland; Wenzhou and Madrid; Jinan and Sydney; as well as Beijing Daxing International Airport and Haneda Airport.
The airline has resumed international flights on routes between Shanghai and San Francisco; Shanghai and Brisbane; Shanghai and Nagasaki; Yanji and Inchon; Xi'an, Qingdao, and Inchon; Hohhot, Kunming and Yangon on Oct. 29.
It will also resume flights on more international routes, including routes between Shenzhen and Bangkok and between Lanzhou and Bangkok in late November this year.