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Chinese LCC to link Japan's Osaka with China's Qingdao, Lanzhou

Xinhua, January 22, 2015 Adjust font size:

Chinese low-cost carrier (LCC) Spring Airlines will launch two new air routes on Saturday, linking Osaka in western Japan with Qingdao in Shandong Province, eastern China, and with Lanzhou in Gansu Province, northwestern China, New Kansai International Airport Co. Ltd. said on Wednesday.

The carrier, which already links Kansai airport with four other Chinese cities, will provide seven flights a week from Osaka to Lanzhou (via Shanghai), and three flights a week to Qingdao. It will be the first airline to fly the Kansai-Lanzhou route.

The new air routes are opened up to meet the needs of the increasing number of Chinese tourists to Kansai region in Japan, said the airport company.

Spring Airlines is a budget airline headquartered in Shanghai, China. It launched the air route from Kansai airport to Shanghai in March 2014, and later opened routes from Kansai airport to China's Tianjin, Chongqing, and Wuhan city, with the average passenger load factor kept over 90 percent. Endi