Our reporter was informed that Yichang Sanxia Airport wrapped up its annual international flight schedule and hit a new high record of both domestic and international flight and passenger flow volume in its history by the end of October.
Yichang Sanxia Airport have chartered 226 sorties from Yichang to Korea, carrying passengers of 33,510, which include 20,677 of foreigners ever since our State Port Office approved to prolong temporary charter flights of Korean planes from Yichang to Korea on April this year. It is the first time for the international and domestic flights of Yichang Sanxia Airport to amount to 200 and more than 30,000 passengers have experienced the journey since its operation of the policy
To ensure international flights of Yichang Sanxia Airport grows constantly and earns support from our nation and provincial port administrative departments, Yichang Sanxia Airport is permitted to open its temporary charter flights to Japan and Thailand, and to prolong temporary charter flights run by Korean Airline.
(Reporter Chen Xi; Correspondent Liu Yali)