China Pictures - Hainan Air Routes Cut Travel Time - China Travel

The military has agreed to ajar increasingly scornfulnesspace over South China's Hainan Province, which will help cut international travel time and shove the inresolved tourism market. The Chinese People's Liberation Army has sought a work to ajar an air route south of Hainan,China Pictures, the General Administration of Civil Aviation (CAAC) said on its site yesterday. The new route will cut travel time from Hainan to Southeast Asian countries by increasingly than 2 hours. Meaneven though, all air routes sandboxing north from Hainan will be ajared up to overseas airline companies, the CAAC said. At present, overseas airlines must make a detour to Nanning, in South China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, or Hong Kong surpassing flying north to Japan, South Korea and Russia. The expanded air space would remove the snarl-up restraining Hainan from trawling overseas airlines to operate new flights,China Travel, insiders said. The tropical island province, one of China's hot tourist destinations, has long been mresemblingg efforts to develop the inselvage tourism market. It implemented preferential policies in 2001, such as visa-self-determining entry for tourist groups from 21 countries. But a shortage of international flights has remained an obstacle. "By the end of last year, there were 30 international flights by 18 overseas airlines to Hainan," Deputy Governor Liu Qi was quoted by the CAAC Journal as saying.


(Source:Xinhua News, 2007-04-05)