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As China enters the busy summer travel season following the conclusion of college and high school entrance examinations, China Southern Airlines has announced plans to operate approximately 320,000 flights across more than 970 domestic routes and over 260 international and regional routes during the peak period. Daily flight volumes are expected to exceed 3,000, providing travelers with greater flexibility and options.
Domestically, from its Guangzhou hub, the airline is launching and increasing flights to cities including Xining, Lijiang, Hailar, and Dehong. The Guangzhou base will operate over 110 domestic routes, with weekly flights surpassing 4,000 during the peak season.
At the Beijing hub, new and additional summer routes will connect Beijing Daxing Airport to destinations such as Changbai Mountain, Xining, Altay, Yining, and Aksu. The Beijing Daxing base will offer 55 domestic routes, with over 2,300 weekly flights. In Urumqi, China Southern plans to increase flights to Shenzhen, Guiyang, Harbin, and Shenyang, with weekly departures exceeding 1,600. Additional services from Altay to Guangzhou, Beijing, Wuhan, Changchun, Zhengzhou, and Harbin will reach up to 64 weekly flights, including the deployment of wide-body aircraft on high-demand routes.
On the international front, China Southern recently launched direct flights from Beijing Daxing to Dushanbe and will begin new routes from Guangzhou to Almaty and Tashkent by late June, as well as from Harbin to Vladivostok starting July 1.
Further capacity increases will be made on popular routes across Central Asia, Southeast Asia, and Australia. Examples include boosting Urumqi-Tbilisi flights from four to seven weekly round trips, increasing Urumqi-Yerevan from two to three weekly, expanding Guangzhou-Brisbane from five to seven weekly, and enhancing daily flights from Guangzhou to Phuket and Sabah from one to two.
Reporter: Zeng Xiangxing
Editor: Hu Nan, James, Shen He
