China Eastern to commence Cairns services
 

Good news for Cairns and start at 3 per week
 

China Eastern Airlines is planning to launch scheduled service on Shanghai Pu Dong – Cairns route, starting 30OCT12. As per GDS timetable and inventory display, service to be operated 3 times a week with Airbus A330-200 aircraft.

Reservation for this new flight is not available for the moment. Schedule:

MU731 PVG2100 – 0900+1CNS 332 246
MU732 CNS1100 – 1620PVG 332 357

China Eastern applies to launch Beijing-Nanjing-Sydney from Oct 2012, 3 times a week with A330-300.
Hainan Airlines applies to launch Beijing-Chongqing-Sydney from July 2013, 4 times a week with A330.

Here is the link in Chinese, http://www.caac.gov.cn/C1/201207/t20120712_49867.html

China’s CAAC has issued a statement regarding new route applications to Australia, by China Eastern and Hainan Airlines. Details:

China Eastern MU has applied 3 weekly A330-300 service on Beijing – Nanjing – Sydney, as early as October 2012
Hainan Airlines HU has applied 4 weekly A330 service on Beijing – Chongqing – Sydney, as early as July 2013

Is the Hainan service a different one to the one that is supposed to start in November from Shenzhen i believe, if my memory serves correctly?

Morris,

If you referring to the one In this thread...http://www.yssyforum.net/board/showt...inan#post74867 then it appears it is a different routing to the one they have now applied for. I am not if reservations for the flights are open in the link I have have provided. Which means I am not sure if these flights are happening.

Yes it is a different Morris.

Ok, worst case scenario we will get 3 or 4 services per week, but hopefully 7 per week if both routings go ahead. Thanks guys.

Yes Hainan's service from Shenzhen is open for reservations. Times have had a small change, 0730 arrival and 0930 departure, still three flights per week.

it appears china eastern suspending cairns flight from aug 13 to at least OCT 31

it may resume from nov